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We consider the deformation of the Schwarzschild solution in general relativity due to spherically symmetric quantum fluctuations of the metric and the matter fields. In this case, the 4D theory of gravity with Einstein action reduces to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 D. I. Kazakov , S. N. Solodukhin

General relativity successfully describes space-times at scales that we can observe and probe today, but it cannot be complete as a consequence of singularity theorems. For a long time there have been indications that quantum gravity will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald

In the recently introduced gauge theory of translations, dubbed Coincident General Relativity, gravity is described with neither torsion nor curvature in the spacetime affine geometry. The action of the theory enjoys an enhanced symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Tomi S. Koivisto

When tetrad (metric) fields are not invertible, the standard canonical formulation of gravity cannot be adopted as it is. Here we develop a Hamiltonian theory of gravity for non-invertible tetrad. In contrast to Einstein gravity, this phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-13 Sandipan Sengupta

When describing gravity at high energies it is natural to introduce terms quadratic in the curvature as first corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Static, spherically symmetric classical solutions are studied in the case of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-05 Samuele Silveravalle

One of the common features in all promising candidates of quantum gravity is the existence of a minimal length scale, which naturally emerges with a generalized uncertainty principle, or equivalently a modified commutation relation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-04 Jie Gu

The Schwarzschild geometry is investigated within the context of effective-field-theory models of gravity. Starting from its harmonic-coordinate expression, we derive the metric in standard coordinates by keeping the leading one-loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-08 Emmanuele Battista

We present a new, falsifiable, quantum theory of gravity, which we name Non-commutative Matter-Gravity. The commutative limit of the theory is classical general relativity. In the first two papers of this series, we have introduced the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-03 Palemkota Maithresh , Tejinder P. Singh

Quadratic gravity is a well-motivated extension of general relativity~(GR) wherein the Einstein-Hilbert action is augmented by quadratic curvature terms. This theory is equivalent to GR in an effective-field-theory framework, while the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Georgios Antoniou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani

A nonlocal form of the effective gravitational action could cure the unboundedness of euclidean gravity with Einstein action. On sub-horizon length scales the modified gravitational field equations seem compatible with all present tests of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Wetterich

The possibility of the extension of spatial diffeomorphisms to a larger family of symmetries in a class of classical field theories is studied. The generator of the additional local symmetry contains a quadratic kinetic term and a potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Szilard Farkas , Emil J. Martinec

Strictly respecting the Einstein equations and supposing space-time is a medium, we derive the deformation of this medium by gravity. We derive the deformation in case of infinite plane, Robertson-Walker manifold, Schwarzschild manifold and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Miroslav Pardy

The big bang and the Schwarzschild singularities are space-like. They are generally regarded as the "final frontiers" at which space-time ends and general relativity breaks down. We review the status of such space-like singularities from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-24 Abhay Ashtekar , Adrián del Río , Marc Schneider

I argue that the linearity of quantum mechanics is an emergent feature at the Planck scale, along with the manifold structure of space-time. In this regime the usual causality violation objections to nonlinearity do not apply, and nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 George Svetlichny

We consider nonlocal modified Einstein gravity without matter, where nonlocal term has the form $P(R) F(\Box) Q(R)$. For this model, in this paper we give the derivation of the equations of motion in detail. This is not an easy task and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-26 Ivan Dimitrijevic , Branko Dragovich , Zoran Rakic , Jelena Stankovic

An alternative, scalar theory of gravitation has been proposed, based on a mechanism/interpretation of gravity as being a pressure force: Archimedes' thrust. In it, the gravitational field affects the physical standards of space and time,…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Mayeul Arminjon

We tackle the question of whether regular black holes or other alternatives to the Schwarzschild solution can arise from an action principle in quantum gravity. Focusing on an asymptotic expansion of such solutions and inspecting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 Benjamin Knorr , Alessia Platania

Here in this work we propose a modified gravity with the action of $f(R) = \sqrt{R^2 - R_0^2}$ instead of Einstein-Hilbert action to describe the late time acceleration of the universe. We obtain the equation of the modified gravity both in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shant Baghram , Marzieh Farhang , Sohrab Rahvar

We present a Lorentz gauge theory of gravity in which the metric is not dynamical. Spherically symmetric weak field solutions are studied. We show that this solution contains the Schwarzschild spacetime at least to the first order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-27 Ahmad Borzou

Multidimensionality of our Universe is one of the most intriguing assumption in modern physics. It follows naturally from theories unifying different fundamental interactions with gravity, e.g. M/string theory. The idea has received a great…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-01 Tamerlan Saidov