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The multicenter solutions of 4d ${\cal N}=2$ supergravity contain a subset of scaling solutions with vanishing total angular momentum. In a near limit those solutions are asymptotically locally AdS$_2\times$ S$^2$, but we show that a higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Delaram Mirfendereski , Dieter Van den Bleeken

We derive an integro-differential equation for propagation of cosmological gravitation waves in spatially closed cosmology whereas the traceless transverse tensor part of the anisotropic stress tensor is free streaming neutrinos (including…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-25 Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Amir H. Abbassi , Ali A. Asgari

In this paper, we consider the Euclidean partition function of uncharged and charged $AdS_{d+1}$ black hole geometries in canonical and grand canonical ensemble for $d\geq3$. It is seen that the partition function can be reduced to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Manishankar Ailiga , Shubhashis Mallik , Gaurav Narain

We investigate exact plane-fronted gravitational wave (pp-wave) solutions within the framework of shift-symmetric quadratic-order higher-order scalar--tensor (HOST) theories. These solutions represent fully nonlinear radiative spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Masato Minamitsuji

In the present work we investigate wormhole configurations described by a constant redshift function in Einstein-Cubic gravity ({{\sf ECG}}). We derive analytical wormhole geometries by assuming a particular equation of state ({{\sf EoS}})…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-05 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Amir Hadi Ziaie

Previous work has developed the theory of linearized gravitational wave (GW) interactions with matter using the Bondi-Sachs formalism, but with the perturbations restricted to be quadrupolar, i.e., the angular dependence is spherical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers , Nigel T. Bishop

Detection of gravitational waves (GW) opened new windows on fundamental physics and it would be natural to search how the role of extra dimensional effects can be traced to gravitational wave physics. In this article, we consider a toy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Mohammad. A Ganjali , Zainab Sedaghatmanesh

We give a rigorous and mathematically clear presentation of the Covariant and Gauge Invariant theory of gravitational waves in a perturbed Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe for Fourth Order Gravity, where the matter is described…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kishore N. Ananda , S. Carloni , P. K. S. Dunsby

A general approach to description of multigravity models in D-dimensional space-time is presented. Different possibilities of generalization of the invariant volume are given. Then a most general form of the interaction potential is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-26 Steven Duplij , Albert Kotvytskiy

Generalized symmetries and their spontaneous breakdown serve as the fundamental concept to constrain the many-body entanglement structure, which allows us to characterize quantum phases of matter and emergent collective excitations. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Ki-Seok Kim , Arpita Mitra , Debangshu Mukherjee , Mitsuhiro Nishida

We determine explicit expressions for the continuous two-sided gravitational wavefunctions in supersymmetric versions of JT gravity, focusing mainly on $\mathcal{N}=2$ JT supergravity. Our approach is based on representation theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Andreas Belaey , Francesca Mariani , Thomas G. Mertens

The Kerr geometry admits the Carter symmetry, which ensures that the geodesic equations are integrable. It is shown that gravitational waveforms associated with extreme-mass-ratio inspirals involving a non-integrable compact object display…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-09 Kyriakos Destounis , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We reconsider the role of wormholes in the AdS/CFT correspondence. We focus on Euclidean wormholes that connect two asymptotically AdS or hyperbolic regions with $\mathbb{S}^1\times \mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ boundary. There is no solution to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

We consider the timelike version of Warped Anti-de Sitter space (WAdS), which corresponds to the three-dimensional section of the G\"{o}del solution of four-dimensional cosmological Einstein equations. This geometry presents closed timelike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-29 L. Donnay , J. J. Fernandez-Melgarejo , G. Giribet , A. Goya , E. Lavia

We formulate the variational problem for AdS gravity with Dirichlet boundary conditions and demonstrate that the covariant counterterms are necessary to make the variational problem well-posed. The holographic charges associated with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ioannis Papadimitriou , Kostas Skenderis

We present a complete, theory-independent classification of $D$-dimensional Kundt spacetimes of Weyl and traceless-Ricci type N. We show that these geometries consist of three invariantly defined subfamilies, namely (generalized) Kundt, pp-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-03 Marcello Ortaggio , Jakub Voldřich , José Barrientos

Gravitational wave observations of the near-horizon region of black holes lend insight into the quantum nature of gravity. In particular, gravitational wave echoes have been identified as a potential signature of quantum gravity-inspired…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-07 Vasil Dimitrov , Tom Lemmens , Daniel R. Mayerson , Vincent S. Min , Bert Vercnocke

We show that the parameter space of Zwei-Dreibein Gravity (ZDG) in AdS3 exhibits critical points, where massive graviton modes coincide with pure gauge modes and new `logarithmic' modes appear, similar to what happens in New Massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Andrés F. Goya , Wout Merbis , Jan Rosseel

We study cosmological implications of bigravity and massive gravity solutions with non-simultaneously diagonal metrics by considering the generalized Gordon and Kerr-Schild ansatzes. The scenario that we obtain is equivalent to that of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 Carlos García-García , Antonio L. Maroto , Prado Martín-Moruno

We study the cosmological propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) beyond general relativity (GR) across homogeneous and isotropic backgrounds. We consider scenarios in which GWs interact with an additional tensor field and use a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Meng-Xiang Lin