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Symmetries are ubiquitous in modern physics. They not only allow for a more simplified description of physical systems but also, from a more fundamental perspective, can be seen as determining a theory itself. In the present paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-24 Níckolas de Aguiar Alves , Andre G. S. Landulfo

We show that the behaviour of outgoing radial null geodesic congruence on the apparent horizon is related to the property of nakedness in spherical dust collapse justifying the difference between the Penrose diagrams in the naked and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sukratu Barve

Null and timelike geodesics around a 2+1 black hole are determined. Complete geodesics of both types exist in the rotating black-hole background, but not in the spinless case. Upper and lower bounds for the radial size of the orbits are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Norman Cruz , Cristián Martínez , Leda Peña

This paper investigates intrinsic Killing symmetries of null hypersurfaces $\mathcal{N}_3$ within the framework of general relativity. To this end we consider $\mathcal{N}_3$ as detached from the embedding spacetime and equipped with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 G. Dautcourt

Hamiltonian description of gravitational field contained in a spacetime region with boundary $S$ being a null-like hypersurface (a wave front) is discussed. Complete generating formula for the Hamiltonian dynamics (with no surface integrals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Czuchry , J. Jezierski , J. Kijowski

Geometrical structures intrinsic to non-expanding, weakly isolated and isolated horizons are analyzed and compared with structures which arise in other contexts within general relativity, e.g., at null infinity. In particular, we address in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Abhay Ashtekar , Christopher Beetle , Jerzy Lewandowski

In this chapter, we study special photon orbits defined by means of Killing vectors and present a framework based on the properties of such null orbits. For concreteness, we restrict ourselves to the case of axially symmetric spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo

We show that the diffeomorphisms, which preserve the null nature for a generic null metric very near to the null surface, provide {\it noncommutative} Heisenberg algebra. This is the generalization of the earlier work (Phys. Rev. D95,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-07 Krishnakanta Bhattacharya , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We prove that in any spacetime dimension and under the null energy condition, every totally geodesic connected smooth compact null hypersurface (hence every compact Cauchy horizon) admits a smooth lightlike tangent vector field of constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Raymond A. Hounnonkpe , Ettore Minguzzi

We provide an exhaustive and illustrated classification of timelike and null geodesics in the near-horizon region of near-extremal Kerr black holes. The classification of polar motion extends to Kerr black holes of arbitrary spin. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-24 Geoffrey Compère , Adrien Druart

We consider universal properties that arise from a local geometric structure of a Killing horizon. We first introduce a non-perturbative definition of such a local geometric structure, which we call an asymptotic Killing horizon. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jun-ichirou Koga

In Class. Quantum Grav. 35 (2018) 155015 we have introduced the notion of "Multiple Killing Horizon" and analyzed some of its general properties. Multiple Killing Horizons are Killing horizons for two or more linearly independent Killing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Marc Mars , Tim-Torben Paetz , José M. M. Senovilla

Geometries with horizons offer insights into relationships between general relativity and quantum physics. For static spherically symmetric space-times, the event horizon is coincident with a coordinate anomaly that introduces complications…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-25 James Lindesay

We analyze the generic structure of Einstein tensor projected onto a 2-D spacelike surface S defined by unit timelike and spacelike vectors u_i and n_i respectively, which describe an accelerated observer (see text). Assuming that flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-01 Dawood Kothawala

It is shown that a timelike radial geodesic does not become null at the event horizon

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ismael Tereno

We investigate the possibility of having an event horizon within several classes of metrics that asymptote to the maximally supersymmetric IIB plane wave. We show that the presence of a null Killing vector (not necessarily covariantly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 James T. Liu , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Diana Vaman

Space-times admitting a shear-free, irrotational, geodesic null congruence are studied. Attention is focused on those space-times in which the gravitational field is a combination of a perfect fluid and null radiation.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Sintes , A. A. Coley , D. J. McManus

This paper is devoted to study the geodesic structure of regular Hayward black hole. The timelike and null geodesic have been studied explicitly for radial and non-radial motion. For timelike and null geodesic in radial motion there exists…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 G. Abbas , U. Sabiullah

We consider subtleties of the horizon (null-hypersurface) limit in the Parikh-Wilczek Membrane Approach to Black Holes. Specifically, we refine the correspondence between the projected Einstein equations of gravity with matter and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-13 A. M. Arslanaliev , A. J. Nurmagambetov

The geodesic properties of the extraordinary vacuum string solution in (4+1) dimensions are analyzed by using Hamilton-Jacobi method. The geodesic motions show distinct properties from those of the static one. Especially, any freely falling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Bogeun Gwak , Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Hyeong-Chan Kim