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We treat here general relativistically the issue of galaxy formation, which is a major problem in cosmology. While the current models use a top-hat collapse model, coupled with Newtonian virialization technique to balance the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-31 Dipanjan Dey , Prashant Kocherlakota , Pankaj S. Joshi

We investigate the gravitational collapse of a massive scalar field in a conformally flat, spherically symmetric spacetime within general relativity. The collapsing matter distribution is modeled using a minimally coupled homogeneous scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Mohamed Aarif A , Soumya Chakrabarti

We find analytical solutions describing the collapse of an infinitely long cylindrical shell of counter-rotating dust. We show that--for the classes of solutions discussed herein--from regular initial data a curvature singularity inevitably…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves , Sanjay Jhingan

Point cloud is the most fundamental representation of 3D geometric objects. Analyzing and processing point cloud surfaces is important in computer graphics and computer vision. However, most of the existing algorithms for surface analysis…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Gary Pui-Tung Choi , Kin Tat Ho , Lok Ming Lui

The mapping between bulk supergravity fields in anti-de Sitter space and operators in the dual boundary conformal field theory usually relies heavily on the available global symmetries. In the present work, we study a generalization of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-01 David A Lowe , Shubho Roy

A three dimensional Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is carried out to explore the equilibrium configurations of charged dust particles. These equilibrium configuration are of astrophysical significance for the conditions of molecular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Manish K. Shukla , K. Avinash

We study the complete gravitational collapse of a class of spherically symmetric inhomogeneous perfect fluid models obtained by introducing small radial perturbations in an otherwise homogeneous matter cloud. Our aim here is to study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-10 Seema Satin , Daniele Malafarina , Pankaj S. Joshi

Static spherically symmetric solutions for conformal gravity in three dimensions are found. Black holes and wormholes are included within this class. Asymptotically the black holes are spacetimes of arbitrary constant curvature, and they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-28 Julio Oliva , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

We consider the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric ball of dust in the general relativistic weak gravity regime. The velocity of the matter as viewed by external observers is compared to the velocity gauged by local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. I. Cooperstock , S. Tieu

We present a new class of solutions to Einstein equations for the spherical collapse of dustlike matter coupled with heat flux. In this family of solutions spacetime shear is necessarily non-zero. Also these solutions have an interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-07-11 Rituparno Goswami

This paper is devoted to classify the most general plane symmetric spacetimes according to kinematic self-similar perfect fluid and dust solutions. We provide a classification of the kinematic self-similarity of the first, second, zeroth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Sharif , Sehar Aziz

We consider the gravitational collapse of a dust cloud in an asymptotically anti de Sitter spacetime in which points connected by a discrete subgroup of an isometry subgroup of anti de Sitter spacetime are identified. We find that black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. L. Smith , R. B. Mann

Generalizing earlier results of Joshi and Dwivedi (Commun. Math. Phys. 146, 333 (1992); Lett. Math. Phys. 27, 235 (1993)), we analyze here the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a matter cloud with a general form of matter for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 I. H. Dwivedi , P. S. Joshi

Spatial graphs are particular graphs for which the nodes are localized in space (e.g., public transport network, molecules, branching biological structures). In this work, we consider the problem of spatial graph reduction, that aims to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Anna Calissano , Etienne Lasalle

We present a class of conformally flat solutions of the Einstein's field equations for spherical systems undergoing gravitational collapse accompanied with radial heat flux. The interior space-time of the collapsing matter is chosen to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-20 Ranjan Sharma , Shyam Das , Ramesh Tikekar

It is well known that the interior of a constant density spherical star is conformally flat. In this paper we obtain the coordinate system in which the conformal flatness of the metric manifests itself. In a similar way, we also construct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-07-02 Karthik Shankar , Bernard. F. Whiting

We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 David Simmons-Duffin

The independent dynamical variables of a collapsing homogeneous sphere of dust are canonically quantised and coupled equations describing matter (dust) and gravitation are obtained. The conditions for the validity of the adiabatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Roberto Casadio

Black holes are spacetimes that should describe the end state of the gravitational collapse of huge amounts of quantum matter. A quantum description of dust cores for black hole geometries that accounts for the large number of matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Tommaso Bambagiotti , Roberto Casadio

In this article, we summarize the results on symmetric conformal geometries. We review the results following from the general theory of symmetric parabolic geometries and prove several new results for symmetric conformal geometries. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Jan Gregorovič , Lenka Zalabová