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The physical interpretation and eventual fate of gravitational singularities in a theory surpassing classical general relativity are puzzling questions that have generated a great deal of interest among various quantum gravity approaches.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-06 Norbert Bodendorfer , Fabio M. Mele , Johannes Münch

In this thesis we investigate black holes in the Randall-Sundrum braneworld scenario. We begin with an overview of extra-dimensional physics, from the original proposal of Kaluza and Klein up to the modern braneworld picture of extra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-10-10 Richard Whisker

Pseudo-Newtonian potentials are a tool often used in theoretical astrophysics to capture some key features of a black-hole space-time in a Newtonian framework. As a result, one can use Newtonian numerical codes, and Newtonian formalism in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-08 Vojtech Witzany , Claus Laemmerzahl

Employing the Newman-Penrose formalism and following the classic Teukolsky-like approach, we linearise the field equations of quadratic gravity on the Kerr background and combine them with the linearised Ricci and Bianch identities. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Simon Knoska , David Kofron , Robert Svarc

The pseudo-complex General Relativity (pc-GR) is further considered. A new projection method is proposed. It is shown, that the pc-GR introduces automatically terms into the system which can be interpreted as dark energy. The modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-01 Gunther Caspar , Thomas Schönenbach , Peter Otto Hess , Mirko Schäfer , Walter Greiner

We show that the Newman-Janis shift property of the exact Kerr solution can be interpreted in terms of a worldsheet effective action. This holds both in gravity, and for the single-copy $\sqrt{\text{Kerr}}$ solution in electrodynamics. At…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-24 Alfredo Guevara , Ben Maybee , Alexander Ochirov , Donal O'Connell , Justin Vines

The Newman-Janis algorithm, which involves complex-coordinate transformations, establishes connections between static and spherically symmetric black holes and rotating and/or axially symmetric ones, such as between Schwarzschild black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-26 Chen Lan , Meng-Hu Li , Yan-Gang Miao

With a semiclassical polymerization in the loop quantum gravity (LQG), the interior of Schwarzschild black holes provides a captivating single-horizon regular black hole spacetime. The shortage of rotating black hole models in loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Jitendra Kumar , Shafqat Ul Islam , Sushant G. Ghosh

In a recent study [1], authors introduced a new class of exact space-times in Einstein's gravity, which are Kerr black holes immersed in an external uniform magnetic field that is oriented along the rotational axis. Motivated by this work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Faizuddin Ahmed , İzzet Sakallı , Ahmad Al-Badawi

An extension of the theory of General Relativity is proposed, based on pseudo-complex space-time coordinates. The new theory corresponds to the introduction of two, in general different, metrics which are connected through specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter O. Hess , Walter Greiner

This work explores the possibility of applying stochastic quantum mechanics to curved spacetimes, with an emphasis on the Schwarzschild black hole. After reviewing the fundamental concepts of this approach, the quantum stochastic equations…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Juan S. Jerez- Rodríguez , Eric S. Escobar-Aguilar , Tonatiuh Matos

In this work, we introduce the {\it complexity factor} in the context of self--gravitating fluid distributions for the case of black holes by employing the Newman-Penrose formalism. In particular, by working with spherically symmetric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 P. Bargueño , E. Fuenmayor , E. Contreras

Kerr's multi-particle solution is obtained on the base of the Kerr theorem. Choosing generating function of the Kerr theorem $F$ as a product of partial functions $F_i$ for spinning particles i=1,...k, we obtain a multi-sheeted,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Burinskii

We derive an effective Kerr metric from an effective Schwarzschild metric inspired by loop quantum gravity through the Newman-Janis algorithm. The resulting spacetime is free from the classical ring singularity and does not allow the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 Francesco Fazzini

We present a discussion of the periodicity in imaginary time of maximally extended black hole spacetimes without reference to Euclidean manifolds. As motivation, we first demonstrate our approach for the Rindler geometry in flat space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Bernardo Araneda , Bernard F. Whiting

Dynamical black-hole scenarios have been developed in loop quantum gravity in various ways, combining results from mini and midisuperspace models. In the past, the underlying geometry of space-time has often been expressed in terms of line…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Martin Bojowald

We investigate the Dirac equation in Kerr-Newman space-time, using horizon penetrating coordinates (Eddington-Finkelstein-Coordinates) and the Newman-Penrose formalism to separate the equation into radial and angular systems of ordinary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Christoph Krpoun , Olaf Müller

The analysis of gravitino fields in curved spacetimes is usually carried out using the Newman-Penrose formalism. In this paper we consider a more direct approach with eigenspinor-vectors on spheres, to separate out the angular parts of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-16 C. -H. Chen , H. T. Cho , A. S. Cornell , G. Harmsen , Wade Naylor

Despite some 60 years of work on the subject of the Kerr rotating black hole there is as yet no widely accepted physically based and pedagogically viable ansatz suitable for deriving the Kerr solution without significant computational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Joshua Baines , Matt Visser

Motivated by quantum-gravity scenarios that replace the classical black hole singularity with a regular core, and by the possibility that the dark-energy sector may be scale dependent, we construct a broad class of nonsingular rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Ramon Torres