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We report on general relativistic calculations of quasiequilibrium configurations of binary neutron stars in circular orbits with zero vorticity. These configurations are expected to represent realistic situations as opposed to corotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Bonazzola , E. Gourgoulhon , J. -A. Marck

A uniform approach is introduced to study the existence of measure valued solutions to the homogeneous Boltzmann equation for both hard potential with finite energy, and soft potential with finite or infinite energy, by using Toscani…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Yoshinori Morimoto , Shuaikun Wang , Tong Yang

We consider a classical system of point particles interacting by means of a short range potential. We prove that, in the low--density (Boltzmann--Grad) limit, the system behaves, for short times, as predicted by the associated Boltzmann…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Mario Pulvirenti , Chiara Saffirio , Sergio Simonella

We consider the most general quadratic in curvature stringy motivated non-local action for the modified Einstein's gravity. We present exact analytic cosmological solutions including the bouncing ones and develop the relevant techniques for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 Alexey S. Koshelev

We investigate the gravitational impulse by using the generalized formulation of the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE), wherein the initial states are taken as wave packets rather than plane waves. The QBE operates within an open quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

We construct a novel class of exact solutions to the Boltzmann equation, in both its classical and quantum formulation, for arbitrary collision laws. When the system is subjected to a specific external forcing, the precise form of which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Guéry-Odelin , J. G. Muga , M. J. Ruiz-Montero , E. Trizac

In this paper we prove the strong and time-averaged strong convergence to equilibrium for solutions (with general initial data) of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Fermi-Dirac particles. The assumption on the collision…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Bocheng Liu , Xuguang Lu

In this paper, we consider the spatially inhomogeneous diffusively driven inelastic Boltzmann equation in different cases: the restitution coefficient can be constant or can depend on the impact velocity (which is a more physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Isabelle Tristani

In this paper we shall discuss the backreaction of a massive quantum scalar field on the curvature, the latter treated as a classical field. Furthermore, we shall deal with this problem in the realm of cosmological spacetimes by analyzing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Nicola Pinamonti

This work proves the global stability of the Boltzmann equation (1872) with the physical collision kernels derived by Maxwell in 1866 for the full range of inverse-power intermolecular potentials, $r^{-(p-1)}$ with $p>2$, for initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Philip T. Gressman , Robert M. Strain

A Boltzmann equation, used to describe the evolution of the density function of a gas of photons interacting by Compton scattering with electrons at low density and non relativistic equilibrium, is considered. A truncation of the very…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 E. Cortés , M. Escobedo

A simple kinematical argument suggests that the classical approximation may be inadequate to describe the evolution of a system with an anisotropic particle distribution. In order to verify this quantitatively, we study the Boltzmann…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Thomas Epelbaum , Francois Gelis , Sangyong Jeon , Guy Moore , Bin Wu

The so-called Einstein-Aether theory is General Relativity coupled (at second derivative order) to a dynamical unit time-like vector field (the aether). It is a Lorentz-violating theory, and gained much attention in the recent years. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-16 Hao Wei , Xiao-Peng Yan , Ya-Nan Zhou

We consider the Cauchy problem for the spatially inhomogeneous non-cutoff Boltzmann equation with polynomially decaying initial data in the velocity variable. We establish short-time existence for any initial data with this decay in a fifth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Christopher Henderson , Stanley Snelson , Andrei Tarfulea

We study a particular exact solution to the Born-Infeld determinantal gravity consisting of a cosmological model which undergoes a brusque bounce. The latter consists of an event characterized by a non-null (but finite) value of the squared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Franco Fiorini

The Pavlov equation is one of the simplest integrable systems of vector fields arising from various problems of mathematical physics and differential geometry which are intensively studied in recent literature. In this report, solving a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-01-26 Derchyi Wu

We rigorously derive the quadrupole formula within the context of the Einstein-Vlasov system. The main contribution of this work is an estimate of the remainder terms, derived from well-defined assumptions, with explicitly stated error…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-24 Érik Amorim , Håkan Andréasson , Markus Kunze

The main purpose of this article is to provide a guide to theorems on global properties of solutions to the Einstein--Vlasov system. This system couples Einstein's equations to a kinetic matter model. Kinetic theory has been an important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Håkan Andréasson

We propose a novel approach in the study of transport phenomena in dense systems or systems with long range interactions where multiple particle interactions must be taken into consideration. Within Boltzmann's kinetic formalism, we study…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Travis J. Sherman , Johann Rafelski

The inverse scattering method is applied to the investigation of the equilibrium configuration of black holes. A study of the boundary problem corresponding to this configuration shows that any axially symmetric, stationary solution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. G. Varzugin