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This paper delves into the impact of extended symmetric teleparallel theory on anisotropic compact stellar structures. The explicit field equations were formulated by considering a minimum model of this extended gravity. Basically, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 M. Zeeshan Gul , M. Sharif , Adeeba Arooj , Baiju Dayanandan

In metric-affine gravity, both the gravitational and matter actions depend not just on the metric, but also on the independent affine connection. Thus matter can be modeled as a hyperfluid, characterized by both the energy-momentum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Ilaria Andrei , Damianos Iosifidis , Laur Järv , Margus Saal

Based on the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations and the Vaidya metric, the motion of a spinning point particle orbiting a non-rotating star while undergoing radiation-induced gravitational collapse is studied in detail. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Dinesh Singh

In the pioneering work of Stern, level sets of harmonic functions have been shown to be an effective tool in the study of scalar curvature in dimension 3. Generalizations of this idea, utilizing level sets of so called spacetime harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Hubert Bray , Sven Hirsch , Demetre Kazaras , Marcus Khuri , Yiyue Zhang

The stellar mass function is one of the fundamental distributions of stellar astrophysics. Its form at masses similar to the Sun was found by Salpeter (1955) to be a power-law $m^{-\alpha}$ with a slope of $\alpha=1.35$. Since then the mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. R. Deacon , G. Nelemans , N. C. Hambly

Inspired by a formula of Stern that relates scalar curvature to harmonic functions, we evaluate the mass of an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold along faces and edges of a large coordinate cube. In terms of the mean curvature and dihedral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Pengzi Miao

For any configuration of a static plane-symmetric distribution of matter along space-time, there are coordinates where the metric can be put explicitly as a functional of the energy density and pressures. It satisfies Einstein equations as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Leandro G. Gomes

The aim of this article is to analyze the asymptotic properties of the C-metric, using a general method specified in work of Tafel and coworkers, [1], [2], [3]. By finding an appropriate conformal factor $\Omega$, it allows the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Pavel Sladek , Daniel J. Finley

In this paper we found a new model for compact star with anisotropic matter distribution considering the new version of Chaplygin fluid equation of state of Errehymy and Daoud (2021). We specify the particular form of the metric potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-29 Manuel Malaver , Rajan Iyer

We present a comprehensive method for determining stellar mass functions, and apply it to samples in the local Universe. We combine the classical 1/Vmax approach with STY, a parametric maximum likelihood method and SWML, a non-parametric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Anna K. Weigel , Kevin Schawinski , Claudio Bruderer

A new class of solutions describing analytical solutions for compact stellar structures has been developed within the tenets of General Relativity. Considering the inherent anisotropy in compact stars, a stable and causal model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-14 Jay Solanki , Bhashin Thakore

We discuss smooth metric measure spaces admitting two weighted Einstein representatives of the same weighted conformal class. First, we describe the local geometries of such manifolds in terms of certain Einstein and quasi-Einstein warped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Miguel Brozos-Vázquez , Eduardo García-Río , Diego Mojón-Álvarez

In this paper, we use the general theory worked out within the past few years for the structure and the evolution of low-mass stars to derive the stellar mass-function in the Galactic disk down to the vicinity of the hydrogen-burning limit,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-21 G. Chabrier

In this work, we report a new exact solution of Einstein's field equations for static spherically symmetric anisotropic matter distributions on the background of paraboloidal spacetime by assuming a quadratic equation of state. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 B S Ratanpal , Bhavesh Suthar

Different steps leading to the new functional for pairing based on natural orbitals and occupancies proposed in ref. [D. Lacroix and G. Hupin, arXiv:1003.2860] are carefully analyzed. Properties of quasi-particle states projected onto good…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 Guillaume Hupin , Denis Lacroix

We propose a new doorway to study the interplay between equations of state of dense matter and compact stars in gauge/gravity correspondence. For this we construct a bulk geometry near the boundary of five-dimensional spacetime. By solving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Kyung Kiu Kim , Youngman Kim , Ik Jae Shin

We revisit Newton's equation of motion in one dimension when the moving particle has a variable mass m(x,t) depending both on position (x) and time (t). Geometrically the mass function is identified with one of the metric function in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-15 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

In this work, we present a class of relativistic and well-behaved solution to Einstein's field equations for anisotropic matter distribution. We perform our analysis by using the Buchdahl ansatz for the metric function grr. Three different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-29 Amit Kumar Prasad , Jitendra Kumar

The aim of this paper is to present some structural equations for generalized quasi-Einstein metrics which was defined recently by Catino in [12]. In addition, supposing that the Riemannian manifold is Einstein we shall show that it is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-13 Abdênago Barros , Ernani Ribeiro

The classification of solutions of the static vacuum Einstein equations, on a given closed manifold or an asymptotically flat one, is a long-standing and much-studied problem. Solutions are characterized by a complete Riemannian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Gregory J Galloway , Eric Woolgar