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The Einstein-Hilbert action for general relativity is not well posed in terms of the metric $g_{ab}$ as a dynamical variable. There have been many proposals to obtain an well posed action principle for general relativity, e.g., addition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-16 Sumanta Chakraborty

We derive a boundary monotonicity formula for a class of biharmonic maps with Dirichlet boundary conditions. A monotonicity formula is crucial in the theory of partial regularity in super-critical dimensions. As a consequence of such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Serdar Altuntas

We present the general formulation of the relativistic fluid dynamics with vorticity (including relativistic superfluid) on a manifold with boundary. Making use of the Hodge decomposition, we emphasize that the equations of motion include a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. V. Vlasov

We identify boundary terms renormalizing the free on-shell actions for massless fields of arbitrary spin, including electromagnetism and linearized gravity, with boundary conditions allowing for supertranslation-like asymptotic symmetries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Andrea Campoleoni , Arnaud Delfante , Dario Francia , Carlo Heissenberg

We consider localization of gravity in smooth domain wall solutions of gravity coupled to a scalar field with a generic potential in the presence of the Gauss-Bonnet term. We discuss conditions on the scalar potential such that domain wall…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Olindo Corradini , Zurab Kakushadze

We consider the inverse boundary value problem of determining the Lam\'e moduli of an isotropic, static elasticity equations of system at the boundary from the localized Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. Assuming appropriate local regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Gen Nakamura

We derive conserved charges as quasi-local Hamiltonians by covariant phase space methods for a class of geometric Lagrangians that can be written in terms of the spin connection, the vielbein and possibly other tensorial form fields,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-19 Elias Gravanis

A higher order theory of dilaton gravity is constructed as a generalization of the Einstein-Lovelock theory of pure gravity. Its Lagrangian contains terms with higher powers of the Riemann tensor and of the first two derivatives of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Konikowska , M. Olechowski

In this manuscript we present a detailed investigation of the form factors of boundary fields of the sinh-Gordon model with a particular type of Dirichlet boundary condition, corresponding to zero value of the sinh-Gordon field at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo

It is an accepted fact that requiring the Lovelock theory to have the maximun possible number of degree of freedom, fixes the parameters in terms of the gravitational and the cosmological constants. In odd dimensions, the Lagrangian is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-03 P. K. Concha , D. M. Peñafiel , E. K. Rodríguez , P. Salgado

Gibbons-Hawking-York (GHY) terms are typically neglected when performing dimensional reductions of gravitational theories. We consider the reduction of such terms for both two-derivative and four-derivative theories in general dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-29 Robert J. Saskowski

We establish several results related to existence, nonexistence or bifurcation of positive solutions for a Dirichlet boundary value problem with in a smooth bounded domain. The main feature of this paper consists in the presence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Marius Ghergu , Vicentiu Radulescu

Constructing a well-posed variational principle is a non-trivial issue in general relativity. For spacelike and timelike boundaries, one knows that the addition of the Gibbons-Hawking-York (GHY) counter-term will make the variational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-02 Krishnamohan Parattu , Sumanta Chakraborty , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , T. Padmanabhan

We extend the Birkhoff's theorem in Lovelock gravity for arbitrary base manifolds using an elementary method. In particular, it is shown that any solution of the form of a warped product of a two-dimensional transverse space and an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-21 Sourya Ray

We present a generalization of the n-dimensional (pure) Lovelock Gravity theory based on an enlarged Lorentz symmetry. In particular, we propose an alternative way to introduce a cosmological term. Interestingly, we show that the usual pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Patrick Concha , Evelyn Rodríguez

We are interested in existence of gradient flows for shape functionals especially for first Laplacian eigenvalues. We introduce different techniques to prove existence and use different formulations for gradient flows. We apply a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Yannick Holle

We provide an analysis of the least gradient problem in the case when the boundary datum is only imposed on a part of the boundary. First, we give a characterisation of solutions in a general setting using convex duality theory. Then, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Wojciech Górny

We study the dynamics of the boundary dilaton gravity coupled to N massles scalars. We rederive the boundary conditions of [1] and [3] in a way which makes the requirement of reparametrization invariance and role of conformal anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Sumit R. Das , Sudipta Mukherji

We review the topic of 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which has been the subject of considerable interest over the past two years. Our review begins with a general introduction to Lovelock's theorem, and the subject of Gauss-Bonnet terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Pedro Carrilho , Timothy Clifton , David J. Mulryne

Local and global weighted norm estimates involving Muckenhoupt weights are obtained for gradient of solutions to linear elliptic Dirichlet boundary value problems in divergence form over a Lipschitz domain $\Omega$. The gradient estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-04 Karthik Adimurthi , Tadele Mengesha , Nguyen Cong Phuc