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We present a systematic construction of the Penrose coordinates and plane wave limits of spacetimes for which both the null Hamilton-Jacobi and geodesic equations separate. The method is illustrated for the Kerr-NUT-(A)dS four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 G. Papadopoulos

We investigate the Penrose limits of classical string and M-theory backgrounds. We prove that the number of (super)symmetries of a supergravity background never decreases in the limit. We classify all the possible Penrose limits of AdS x S…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthias Blau , José Figueroa-O'Farrill , George Papadopoulos

Following the use of approximate symmetries for the Schwarzschild spacetime by A.H. Kara, F.M. Mahomed and A. Qadir (Nonlinear Dynam., to appear), we have investigated the exact and approximate symmetries of the system of geodesic equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-19 Ibrar Hussain , Fazal M. Mahomed , Asghar Qadir

The central limit theorem, the invariance principle and the Poisson limit theorem for the hierarchy of freeness are studied. We show that for given natural m the limit laws can be expressed in terms of non-crossing partitions of depth…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Uwe Franz , Romuald Lenczewski

It is shown that if two Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m space-times, both with the same mass m and charge e, glued together in the singularities, then the light ray in black hole of the first space-time can go continuously through the singularity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Abdel-Megied , Ragab M. Gad

Non-conformally flat space-times admitting a non-null Killing spinor of valence two are investigated in the Geroch-Held-Penrose formalism. Contrary to popular belief these space-times are not all explicitly known. It is shown that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Norbert Van den Bergh

We consider the limit $a\rightarrow \infty$ of the Kerr-de Sitter spacetime. The spacetime is a Petrov type-D solution of the vacuum Einstein field equations with a positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$, vanishing Mars-Simon tensor and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-24 Marc Mars , Tim-Torben Paetz , José M. M. Senovilla

We prove the linear stability of subextremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetimes as solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equation. We make use of a novel representation of gauge-invariant quantities which satisfy a symmetric system of coupled wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-29 Elena Giorgi

We study no-boundary de Sitter extremal surfaces and their pseudo-entropy areas for generic subregions at the future boundary, building on previous work. For large subregions, timelike+Euclidean extremal surfaces exist with transparent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 K. Narayan

We develop further the investigations in arXiv:2210.12963 [hep-th] on de Sitter space, extremal surfaces and time entanglement. We discuss the no-boundary de Sitter extremal surface areas as certain analytic continuations from $AdS$ while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 K. Narayan

The aim of this manuscript is to review the studies about de Sitter solution and the null infinity of asymptotically flat and de Sitter space-times. Thus, after introducing the de Sitter space-time, the symmetry group is described. Also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-16 Djeyrane-Sophie Erfani , Hossein Shojaie

A coordinate-free approach to limits of spacetimes is developed. The limits of the Schwarzschild metric as the mass parameter tends to 0 or $\infty$ are studied, extending previous results. Besides the known Petrov type D and 0 limits,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 F. M. Paiva , M. J. Rebouças , M. A. H. MacCallum

We give the necessary and sufficient (local) conditions for a metric tensor to be a non conformally flat spherically symmetric solution. These conditions exclusively involve explicit concomitants of the Riemann tensor. As a direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-19 Joan Josep Ferrando , Juan Antonio Sáez

The complete analytical solutions of the geodesic equation of massive test particles in higher dimensional Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild-(anti)de Sitter, Reissner-Nordstroem and Reissner-Nordstroem-(anti)de Sitter space--times are presented.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-23 Eva Hackmann , Valeria Kagramanova , Jutta Kunz , Claus Laemmerzahl

In order to get a better understanding of holographic properties of gravitational theories with a vanishing cosmological constant, we analyze in detail the relation between asymptotically anti-de Sitter and asymptotically flat spacetimes in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Glenn Barnich , Andrés Gomberoff , Hernán A. González

We consider Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes and evaluate their mass, angular momentum and entropy according to the boundary counterterm prescription. We provide a physicall interpretation for angular velocity and angular momentum at future/past…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. M. Ghezelbash , R. B. Mann

We show that the problem whether a given finite metric space can be embedded into $m$-dimensional rectilinear space can be reformulated in terms of the Gromov--Hausdorff distance between some special finite metric spaces.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-30 A. O. Ivanov , A. A. Tuzhilin

This is the first part of a series of papers deriving the precise, late-time behaviour and (in)stability properties of charged scalar fields on near-extremal Reissner--Nordstr\"om spacetimes via energy estimates. In this paper, we establish…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Dejan Gajic

Geroch, Held and Penrose invented a formalism for studying spacetimes admitting one or two preferred null directions. This approach is very useful for studying algebraically special spacetimes and their perturbations. In the present paper,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-01 Mark Durkee , Vojtech Pravda , Alena Pravdova , Harvey S. Reall

In this short paper, Penrose's famous singularity theorem is applied to the Kerr space-time. In the case of the maximally extended space-time, the assumptions of Penrose's singularity theorem are not satisfied as the space-time is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Jonathan Brook , Chris Stevens