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We present a perturbative treatment of gravitational wave memory. The coordinate invariance of Einstein's equations leads to a type of gauge invariance in perturbation theory. As with any gauge invariant theory, results are more clear when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle

In this paper we study the even part of the linear stability of the Schwarzschild spacetime as a continuation of [22]. By taking the harmonic gauge, we prove that the energy decays at a rate $\tau^{-2+}$ for the solution of the linearized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-17 Pei-Ken Hung

A tensor description of perturbative Einsteinian gravity about an arbitrary background spacetime is developed. By analogy with the covariant laws of electromagnetism in spacetime, gravito-electromagnetic potentials and fields are defined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Simon J. Clark , Robin W. Tucker

Recently a new approach in constructing the conserved charges in cosmological Einstein's gravity was given. In this new formulation, instead of using the explicit form of the field equations a covariantly conserved rank four tensor was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-07 Emel Altas

We present a systematic and robust approach to nonlinear gravitational perturbations of vacuum spacetimes. This approach provides a basis for a theory of nonlinear gravitational waves. In particular, we show that the system of perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Andrzej Rostworowski

We discuss the linearization of Einstein equations in the presence of a cosmological constant, by expanding the solution for the metric around a flat Minkowski space-time. We demonstrate that one can find consistent solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Jose Bernabeu , Catalina Espinoza , Nick E. Mavromatos

In the macroscopic gravity approach to the averaging problem in cosmology, the Einstein field equations on cosmological scales are modified by appropriate gravitational correlation terms. We present exact cosmological solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Coley , N. Pelavas , R. M. Zalaletdinov

Exact solutions to the Einstein field equations may be generated from already existing ones (seed solutions), that admit at least one Killing vector. In this framework, a space of potentials is introduced. By the use of symmetries in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-16 I. G. Contopoulos , F. P. Esposito , K. Kleidis , D. B. Papadopoulos , L. Witten

A general formula for the metric as an explicit function of the generic energy-momentum tensor is given which satisfies static plane symmetric Einstein's equations with cosmological constant.In order to illustrate it, the solutions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-26 Leandro G. Gomes

In this article, we achieved several non-naturally reductive Einstein metrics on exceptional simple Lie groups, which are formed by the decomposition arising from general Wallach spaces. By using the decomposition corresponding to the two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Huibin Chen , Zhiqi Chen , ShaoQiang Deng

We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions of the semiclassical Einstein equation in flat cosmological spacetimes driven by a quantum massive scalar field with arbitrary coupling to the scalar curvature. In the semiclassical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Paolo Meda , Nicola Pinamonti , Daniel Siemssen

We derive a formalism for solving the Lorenz gauge equations for metric perturbations of Kerr spacetime sourced by an arbitrary stress-energy tensor. The metric perturbation is obtained as a sum of differential operators acting on a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Barry Wardell , Chris Kavanagh , Sam R. Dolan

The usual derivation of Einstein's field equations from the Einstein--Hilbert action is performed by silently assuming the metric tensor's symmetric character. If this symmetry is not assumed, the result is a new theory, such as Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Viktor T. Toth

We find new classes of exact solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell system of equations for a charged sphere with a particular choice of the electric field intensity and one of the gravitational potentials. The condition of pressure isotropy is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-19 K. Komathiraj , S. D. Maharaj

Applying the method of conformal metric to a given static axially symmetric vacuum solution of the Einstein equations, we have shown that there is no solution representing a cosmic ideal fluid which is asymtotically FLRW. Letting the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-09 Fatemeh Bagheri , Reza Mansouri

A classical problem in general relativity is the Cauchy problem for the linearised Einstein equation (the initial value problem for gravitational waves) on a globally hyperbolic vacuum spacetime. A well-known result is that it is uniquely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Oliver Lindblad Petersen

We study the Einstein-Maxwell system of equations in spherically symmetric gravitational fields for static interior spacetimes. The condition for pressure isotropy is reduced to a recurrence equation with variable, rational coefficients. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Thirukkanesh , S. D. Maharaj

A careful analysis of the gravitational geon solution found by Brill and Hartle is made. The gravitational wave expansion they used is shown to be consistent and to result in a gauge invariant wave equation. It also results in a gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Paul R. Anderson , Dieter R. Brill

General relativity and its extensions including torsion identify stress energy momentum as being proportional to the Einstein tensor, thus ensuring both symmetry and conservation. Here we visualize stress energy and momentum by identifying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 Adam Marsh

Through averaging the Einstein equations over transverse gravitational perturbations it is obtained a closed system of two ordinary differential equations describing macroscopic cosmological evolution of the isotropic space-flat Universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Yurii Ignat'ev