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Wave-like spatial statistics in walking-droplet quantum analogs are typically attributed to spatial or temporal nonlocal wave effects. We show instead that such behavior arises generically from the low-dimensional nonlinear dynamics of an…

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Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity in two-dimensional de Sitter space is an intriguing model for cosmological "wave functions of the universe". Its minisuperspace version already contains all physical information. The size of compact slices is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Wilfried Buchmuller , Arthur Hebecker , Alexander Westphal

In quantum cosmology the DeWitt boundary condition is a proposal to set the wave function of the universe to vanish at the classical big-bang singularity. In this Letter, we show that in many gravitational theories including general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-08 Hiroki Matsui , Shinji Mukohyama , Atsushi Naruko

This article concerns the water wave problem in a three-dimensional domain of infinite depth and examines the modulational regime for weakly nonlinear wavetrains. We use the method of normal form transformations near the equilibrium state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Philippe Guyenne , Adilbek Kairzhan , Catherine Sulem

Wave functions specifying a quantum state of the universe must satisfy the constraints of general relativity, in particular the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDWE). We show for a wide class of models with non-zero cosmological constant that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-01 James B. Hartle , S. W. Hawking , Thomas Hertog

This is the second paper of a two part work that establishes a definitive quantitative nonlinear scattering theory for asymptotically de Sitter vacuum solutions $(M,g)$ in $(n+1)$ dimensions with $n\geq4$ even, which are determined by small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Serban Cicortas

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the induced gravity theory is constructed in the minisuperspace approximation, and then solved using the WKB method under three types of boundary condition proposed respectively by Hartle & Hawking (``no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zong-Hong Zhu , Li Cao

In the context of Quantum Cosmology and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation we investigate the possible effects of a non semiclassical wave-function of the universe on the evolution of the inflationary perturbations. These are associated with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 A. Y. Kamenshchik , A. Tronconi , T. Vardanyan , G. Venturi

We use Anti-de Sitter quantum field theory to prove a new class of identities between hypergeometric functions related to the K\"all\'en-Lehmann representation of products of two Anti-de Sitter two-point functions. A rich mathematical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Jacques Bros , Henri Epstein , Michel Gaudin , Ugo Moschella , Vincent Pasquier

A curved static de Sitter-like metric is analyzed. The source of curvature is rooted from a constant stress tensor with positive energy density and negative pressures. All the curvature invariants are constant everywhere and the geometry is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-22 Hristu Culetu

We present de Sitter Teukolsky waves -- linearised quadrupolar gravitational waves in the transverse-traceless gauge in de Sitter spacetime. In the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ going to zero limit, our solutions match to Teukolsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-20 Harsh , Sk Jahanur Hoque , Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Amitabh Virmani

We use the idea of the symmetry between the spacetime coordinates x^\mu and the energy-momentum p^\mu in quantum theory to construct a momentum space quantum gravity geometry with a metric s_{\mu\nu} and a curvature P^\lambda_{\mu\nu\rho}.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 J. W. Moffat

We employ holographic duality to compute $\langle T_{\mu \nu} \rangle$ in strongly coupled $\mathcal N = 4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and then study evolution of the semiclassical Einstein field equations sourced by $\langle T_{\mu…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Paul M. Chesler , Abraham Loeb

A holographic correspondence between data on horizon and space-time physics is investigated. We find similarities with the AdS/CFT correspondence, based on the observation that the optical metric near the horizon describes a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Ivo Sachs , Sergey N. Solodukhin

We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a Planckian cosmological constant. A new stochastic classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-19 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

We evaluate the quantum gravity partition function that counts the dimension of the Hilbert space of a simply connected spatial region of fixed proper volume in the context of Lovelock gravity, generalizing the results for Einstein gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 Mengqi Lu , Robert B. Mann

We study the effect of a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ on the propagation and detection of gravitational waves. To this purpose we investigate the linearised Einstein's equations with terms up to linear order in $\Lambda$ in a de Sitter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 J. Näf , P. Jetzer , M. Sereno

We discuss the quantum mechanical description of a gravitational wave interacting with a cavity electromagnetic field. Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational vacuum induce squeezing in the optical field. Moreover, this squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thiago Guerreiro

For generic field theories at finite temperature, a power-law falloff of correlation functions of conserved currents at long times is a prediction of non-linear hydrodynamics. We demonstrate, through a one-loop computation in Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Simon Caron-Huot , Omid Saremi

This paper aims at investigating the influence of space-time curvature on the uncertainty relation. In particular, relying on previous findings, we assume the quantum wave function to be confined to a geodesic ball on a given space-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Luciano Petruzziello , Fabian Wagner