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An important problem is to determine under which circumstances a metric on a conformally compact manifold is conformal to a Poincar\'e--Einstein metric. Such conformal rescalings are in general obstructed by conformal invariants of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Samuel Blitz , A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

Type N spacetimes of the Kundt class are presented as solutions to Einstein's equations sourced by a real scalar field whose equation of motion is conformally invariant and that generalizes the standard conformal scalar field. The specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-07 Pedro A. Sánchez

We show that there exists a choice of scalar field modes, such that the evolution of the quantum field in the zero-mass and large-mass limits is consistent with the Einstein equations for the background geometry. This choice of modes is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Leonard Parker , Alpan Raval

Utilizing the autonomous system of ordinary differential equations derived in arXiv:1809.01458 to define the evolution, we further investigate a class of cosmological models within an Einstein-aether gravitational framework by introducing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 S. Mohandas , R. J. van den Hoogen , D. Winters , M. Dala

We study massless solutions to the Einstein equations coupled to different matter models with a magnetic field and a conformal gauge singularity assuming spatial homogeneity with three commuting spatial translations. We show that there are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Ho Lee , Ernesto Nungesser , John Stalker , Paul Tod

We study gravitational waves emitted by a binary system of non-spinning bodies in a quasi-circular inspiral within the framework of Einstein-aether theory. In particular, we compute explicitly and analytically the expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Chao Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Anzhong Wang , Bin Wang , Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes , Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu

We study the stability of static, spherically symmetric, traversable wormholes existing due to conformal continuations in a class of scalar-tensor theories with zero scalar field potential (so that Fisher's well-known scalar-vacuum solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 K. A. Bronnikov , S. V. Grinyok

We generalise Einstein's formulation of the traceless Einstein equations to $f(R)$ gravity theories. In the case of the vacuum traceless Einstein equations, we show that a non-constant Weyl tensor leads via a conformal transformation to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-15 John D. Barrow , Spiros Cotsakis

One method of studying the asymptotic structure of spacetime is to apply Penrose's conformal rescaling technique. In this setting, the Einstein equations for the metric and the conformal factor in the unphysical spacetime degenerate where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian Butscher

New electromagnetic conservation laws have recently been proposed: in the absence of electromagnetic currents, the trace of the Chevreton superenergy tensor, $H_{ab}$ is divergence-free in four-dimensional (a) Einstein spacetimes for test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Brian Edgar

The vacuum Einstein equations for spacetimes with two commuting spacelike Killing field symmetries are studied using the Ashtekar variables. The case of compact spacelike hypersurfaces which are three-tori is considered, and the determinant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Viqar Husain

The goal of this research paper is to investigate curvature inheritance symmetry in conformally flat spacetime. Curvature inheritance symmetry in conformally flat spacetime is shown to be a conformal motion. We have proven that a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-08 Musavvir Ali , Mohammad Salman , Sezgin Altay Demirbag

A self-consistent extended Einstein-Maxwell model for relativistic non-stationary polarizable-magnetizable anisotropic media is presented. Based on the analogy with relativistic extended irreversible (transient) thermodynamics, the extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. Balakin

There is strong evidence indicating that the particular form used to recast the Einstein equation as a 3+1 set of evolution equations has a fundamental impact on the stability properties of numerical evolutions involving black holes and/or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Pablo Laguna , Deirdre Shoemaker

Recent works by the second author and Maxwell et al. have shown that the Einstein-scalar field conformal constraint equations are highly complex and generally intractable, even in the vacuum case. In this article, to gain a clearer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Philippe Castillon , Cang Nguyen-The

A class of positive curvature spatially homogeneous but anisotropic cosmological models within an Einstein-aether gravitational framework are investigated. The matter source is assumed to be a scalar field which is coupled to the expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 R. J. van den Hoogen , A. A. Coley , B. Alhulaimi , S. Mohandas , E. Knighton , S. O'Neil

We derive the tensor gravitational waveform generated by a binary of nonspinning compact objects (black holes or neutron stars) in a general class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The waveform is accurate to second post-Newtonian order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-15 Ryan N. Lang

We investigate the dynamical behavior of a scalar field non-minimally coupled to Einstein's tensor and Ricci scalar in geometries of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes. We show that the quasinormal modes remain unaffected if the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-25 R. D. B. Fontana , Jeferson de Oliveira , A. B. Pavan

The conformal Fefferman-Graham ambient metric construction is one of the most fundamental constructions in conformal geometry. It embeds a manifold with a conformal structure into a pseudo-Riemannian manifold whose Ricci tensor vanishes up…

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