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The quantization of classical theories that admit more than one Hamiltonian description is considered. This is done from a geometrical viewpoint, both at the quantization level (geometric quantization) and at the level of the dynamics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Alejandro Corichi , Michael P. Ryan,

A generalization of the recently formulated nonlinear quantization of a parameterized theory is presented in the context of quantum gravity. The parametric quantization of a Friedmann universe with a massless scalar field is then considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles Wang

A mathematical framework of cohomological field theories (CohFTs) is formulated in the language of bigraded manifolds. Algebraic properties of operators in CohFTs are studied. Methods of constructing CohFTs, with or without gauge…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Shuhan Jiang

This paper proposes to generalize the histories included in Euclidean functional integrals from manifolds to a more general set of compact topological spaces. This new set of spaces, called conifolds, includes nonmanifold stationary points…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Kristin Schleich , Donald M. Witt

A generalized geometric method is developed for constructing exact solutions of gravitational field equations in Einstein theory and generalizations. First, we apply the formalism of nonholonomic frame deformations (formally considered for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

The physical consistency of the match of piecewise-$C^0$ metrics is discussed. The mathematical theory of gravitational discontinuity hypersurfaces is generalized to cover the match of regularly discontinuous metrics. The mean-value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianluca Gemelli

Recently, we presented a unified way of analysing classical cosmological perturbation in generalized gravity theories. In this paper, we derive the perturbation spectrums generated from quantum fluctuations again in unified forms. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. Hwang

We investigate gravitational properties of thin planar wall solutions of the Einstein's equations in the weak field approximation. We find the general metric solutions and discuss the behavior of a particle placed initially at rest to one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Campanelli , P. Cea , G. L. Fogli , L. Tedesco

Suggested theory involves a drastic revision of a role of local internal symmetries in physical concept of curved geometry. Under the reflection of fields and their dynamics from Minkowski to Riemannian space a standard gauge principle of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. T. Ter-Kazarian

Path integration is a respected form of quantization that all theoretical quantum physicists should welcome. This elaboration begins with simple examples of three different versions of path integration. After an important clarification of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 John R. Klauder

We deal with rigidity results for compact gradient Einstein-type manifolds with nonempty boundaries. As a result, we obtain new characterizations for hemispheres and geodesic balls in simply connected space forms. In dimensions three and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Allan George de Carvalho Freitas , José Nazareno Vieira Gomes

By gauging the Maxwell spacetime algebra the standard geometric framework of Einstein gravity with cosmological constant term is extended by adding six fourvector fields A_\mu^{ab}(x) associated with the six abelian tensorial charges in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-08 Jose A. de Azcarraga , Kiyoshi Kamimura , Jerzy Lukierski

The global symmetry data of a $D$-dimensional absolute quantum field theory can sometimes be packaged in terms of a $(D+1)$-dimensional bulk system obtained by extending along an interval, with a relative QFT$_D$ at one end and suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Chitraang Murdia

It is shown that background fields of a topological character usually introduced as such in compactified string theories correspond to quantum degrees of freedom which parametrise the freedom in choosing a representation of the zero mode…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jan Govaerts , Florian Payen

We present the formalism for the covariant treatment of gravitational radiation in a magnetized environment and discuss the implications of the field for gravity waves in the cosmological context. Our geometrical approach brings to the fore…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Christos G. Tsagas

We develop a reformulation of the functional integral for bosons in terms of bilocal fields. Correlation functions correspond to quantum probabilities instead of probability amplitudes. Discrete and continuous global symmetries can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-14 S. Floerchinger

In this work, we extend the concepts of $p$-biharmonic maps and $p$-biharmonic hypersurfaces to provide a broader characterization of $(p,q)$-harmonic hypersurfaces and $(p,q)$-harmonic curves in Riemannian manifolds, including Einstein…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Moustafa Tadj , Ahmed Mohammed Cherif , Fethi Latti

We study a noncommutative deformation of general relativity where the gravitational field is described by a matrix-valued symmetric two-tensor field. The equations of motion are derived in the framework of this new theory by varying a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-17 Guglielmo Fucci , Ivan G. Avramidi

Generalized gauge fields are tensor fields with mixed symmetries. For gravity and higher spins in dimensions greater than four, the fundamental field in the "magnetic representation" is a generalized gauge field. It is shown that the analog…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Claudio Bunster , Marc Henneaux

We construct generalized symmetries for linearized Einstein gravity in arbitrary dimensions. First-principle considerations in QFT force generalized symmetries to appear in dual pairs. Verifying this prediction helps us find the full set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Valentin Benedetti , Pablo Bueno , Javier M. Magan