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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 J. A. Valiente Kroon

In this paper we continue our study of the non-linear response of a Schwarzschild black hole to an ingoing gravitational wave by computing the Newman-Penrose (NP) constants. The NP constants are five complex, supertranslation-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-16 Jörg Frauendiener , Alex Goodenbour , Chris Stevens

We use conformal geometry methods and the construction of Friedrich's cylinder at spatial infinity to study the propagation of spin-$0$ fields (solutions to the wave equation) on $n$-dimensional Minkowski spacetimes in a neighbourhood of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Edgar Gasperín , Mariem Magdy , Filipe C. Mena

The rigidity statement of the positive mass theorem asserts that an asymptotically flat initial data set for the Einstein equations with zero ADM mass, and satisfying the dominant energy condition, must arise from an embedding into…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Edward Bryden , Marcus Khuri , Christina Sormani

A theorem related to the Newman-Penrose constants is proven. The theorem states that all the Newman-Penrose constants of asymptotically flat, stationary, asymptotically algebraically special electrovacuum spacetimes are zero.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Xiangdong Zhang , Xiaoning Wu , Sijie Gao

We study formal expansions of asymptotically flat solutions to the static vacuum field equations which are determined by minimal sets of freely specifyable data referred to as `null data'. These are given by sequences of symmetric trace…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Helmut Friedrich

We present a characterization of the asymptotics of all asymptotically flat stationary vacuum solutions of Einstein's field equations. This characterization is given in terms of two sequences of symmetric trace free tensors (we call them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Andrés E. Aceña

We describe our present understanding of the relations between the behaviour of asymptotically flat Cauchy data for Einstein's vacuum field equations near space-like infinity and the asymptotic behaviour of their evolution in time at null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Helmut Friedrich

We obtain the second-order asymptotics for the radiation field of spherically symmetric solutions to the wave equation on spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat backgrounds including the Schwarzschild and sub-extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Yannis Angelopoulos , Stefanos Aretakis , Dejan Gajic

The Conformal Einstein equations and the representation of spatial infinity as a cylinder introduced by Friedrich are used to analyse the behaviour of the gravitational field near null and spatial infinity for the development of data which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Valiente Kroon

A representation of spatial infinity based in the properties of conformal geodesics is used to obtain asymptotic expansions of the gravitational field near the region where null infinity touches spatial infinity. These expansions show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Juan A. Valiente Kroon

A phase of massive gravity free from pathologies can be obtained by coupling the metric to an additional spin-two field. We study the gravitational field produced by a static spherically symmetric body, by finding the exact solution that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Z. Berezhiani , D. Comelli , F. Nesti , L. Pilo

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

In previous work, the numerical solution of the linearized gravitational field equations near space-like and null-infinity was discussed in the form of the spin-2 zero-rest-mass equation for the perturbations of the conformal Weyl…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-25 Georgios Doulis , Joerg Frauendiener

The behaviour of the Maxwell field near one of the spatial infinities of the Schwarzschild solution is analysed by means of the transport equations implied by the Maxwell equations on the cylinder at spatial infinity. Initial data for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 JA Valiente Kroon

The Spi framework provides a 4-dimensional approach to investigate the asymptotic properties of gravitational fields as one recedes from isolated systems in any space-like direction, without reference to a Cauchy surface. It is well suited…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-13 Abhay Ashtekar , Neev Khera

We revisit the problem of consistent free propagation of higher-spin fields in nontrivial backgrounds, focusing on symmetric tensor(-spinor)s. The Fierz-Pauli equations for massive fields in flat space form an involutive system, whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Rakibur Rahman

We show that the spin-2 equations on Minkowski space in the gauge of the `regular finite initial value problem at space-like infinity' imply estimates which, together with the transport equations on the cylinder at space-like infinity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Helmut Friedrich

The asymptotically flat structure of $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ supergravity in three spacetime dimensions is explored. The asymptotic symmetries are spanned by an extension of the super-BMS$_3$ algebra, with two independent $\hat{u}(1)$ currents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Oscar Fuentealba , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

We establish a lower bound on the total mass of the time slices of (n + 1)-dimensional asymptotically flat standard static spacetimes under the timelike convergence condition. The inequality can be viewed equivalently as a Minkowski-type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Brian Harvie