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Non-metricity provides a natural extension of Riemannian geometry, yet its experimental signatures remain largely unexplored. In this work we investigate how spacetime non-metricity can be probed through high-precision observations,…

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We reconsider the unique continuation property for a general class of tensorial Klein-Gordon equations of the form \begin{align*} \Box_{g} \phi + \sigma \phi = \mathcal{G}(\phi,\nabla \phi) \text{,} \qquad \sigma \in \mathbb{R} \end{align*}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Athanasios Chatzikaleas , Arick Shao

Within the closed universe, we obtain the amplitude and frequency of gravitational waves in the terms of discrete wave numbers, wave propagation time, and cosmological constant using the deviation equation in the first-order perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-27 Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Amir H. Abbassi , Ali Vahedi , Komeil Babaei

In this work we find analytical solutions to the null geodesics around a black hole in the conformal Weyl gravity. Exact expressions for the horizons are found, and they depend on the cosmological constant and the coupling constants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-26 J. R. Villanueva , Marco Olivares

We derive the effects of a non-zero cosmological constant $\Lambda$ on gravitational wave propagation in the linearized approximation of general relativity. In this approximation we consider the situation where the metric can be written as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-17 José Bernabeu , Domènec Espriu , Daniel Puigdomènech

The null distance for Lorentzian manifolds was recently introduced by Sormani and Vega. Under mild assumptions on the time function of the spacetime, the null distance gives rise to an intrinsic, conformally invariant metric that induces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Brian Allen , Annegret Burtscher

We study null geodesics that connect the two asymptotically flat regions of the maximally extended Kerr spacetime. These vortical geodesics traverse both horizons and pass through the ring singularity, linking the positive-$r$ exterior to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Maciej Maliborski , Tobias C. Sutter

We experimentally implement a virtual geometric periodicity in an elastic metamaterial. First, unwanted boundary reflections at the domain ends are cancelled through the iterative injection of the polarity reversed, reflected wavefield. The…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Henrik R. Thomsen , Bao Zhao , Andrea Colombi

We investigate the polarization modes of gravitational waves in $f(Q)$ non-metric gravity without gauge fixing. The main result of this study is that no further scalar mode appears more than the two standard plus and cross transverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo

The problem of deriving a shock-wave geometry with cosmological constant by boosting a Schwarzschild-de Sitter (or anti-de Sitter) black hole is re-examined. Unlike previous work in the literature, we deal with the exact Schwarzschild-de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Giampiero Esposito , Roberto Pettorino , Paolo Scudellaro

We describe an approach to the issue of the singularities of null hypersurfaces, due to the focusing of null geodesics, in the context of the recently introduced formulation of GR via null foliations.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Simonetta Frittelli , Ezra T. Newman

The geometry of impulsive pp-waves is explored via the analysis of the geodesic and geodesic deviation equation using the distributional form of the metric. The geodesic equation involves formally ill-defined products of distributions due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Roland Steinbauer

The theory of noncommutative geometry provides an interesting mathematical background for developing new physical models. In particular, it allows one to describe the classical Standard Model coupled to Euclidean gravity. However,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

We use the conformal approach to numerical relativity to evolve hyperboloidal gravitational wave data without any symmetry assumptions. Although our grid is finite in space and time, we cover the whole future of the initial data in our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Huebner

In this paper, we study the polarization of a gravitational wave (GW) emitted by an astrophysical source at a cosmic distance propagating through the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walk universe. By considering the null geodesic deviations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-25 Jia-Xi Feng , Fu-Wen Shu , Anzhong Wang

In this paper we demonstrate that using a mathematical physics approach (focusing the attention to the physics and using mathematics as a tool) it is possible to visualize the formation of the transverse modes inside a cylindrical…

Each and every observational information we obtain from the sky regarding the brightnesses, distances or image distortions resides on the deviation of a null geodesic bundle. In this talk, we present the symplectic evolution of this bundle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-07 Nezihe Uzun

Glasses have a large excess of low-frequency vibrational modes in comparison with crystalline solids. We show that such a feature is a necessary consequence of the geometry generic to weakly connected solids. In particular, we analyze the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthieu Wyart , Sidney R. Nagel , T. A. Witten

The geometric concept of geodesic completeness depends on the choice of the metric field or "metric frame". We develop a frame-invariant concept of "generalised geodesic completeness" or "time completeness". It is based on the notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-21 V. A. Rubakov , C. Wetterich