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We study spherically symmetric solutions in a four-parameter Einstein-Cartan-type class of theories. These theories include torsion, as well as the metric, as dynamical fields, and contain only two physical excitations (around flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 Thibault Damour , Vasilisa Nikiforova

The main focus of this paper is to discuss the solutions of Einstein-Maxwell's field equations for compact stars study. We have chosen the MIT bag model equation of state for the pressure-energy density relationship and conformal Killing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-16 M. Farasat Shamir

The Einstein-Cartan-Saa theory of torsion modifies the spacetime volume element so that it is compatible with the connection. The condition of connection compatibility gives constraints on torsion, which are also necessary for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikodem J. Poplawski

In the present work we investigate wormhole structures and the energy conditions supporting them, in Einstein-Cartan theory ({\sf ECT}). The matter content consists of a Weyssenhoff fluid along with an anisotropic matter which together…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-03 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Amir Hadi Ziaie

Interior solutions of Einstein's equations with a non-zero cosmological constant are given for static and spherically symmetric configurations of uniform density. The metric tensor and pressure are determined for both positive and negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zdeněk Stuchlík

We provide a set of general tools to study the problem of stellar equilibrium in any gravitational theory in which spherically symmetric spacetimes satisfy master field equations taking the form of an equality between an identically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Julio Arrechea , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Matt Visser

Inflation in the framework of Einstein-Cartan theory is revisited. Einstein-Cartan theory is a natural extension of the General Relativity, with non-vanishing torsion. The connection on Riemann-Cartan spacetime is only compatible with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-23 Ammar Kasem , Shaaban Khalil

Einstein-Cartan theory is an extension of the standard formulation of General Relativity characterized by a non-vanishing torsion. The latter is sourced by the matter fields via the spin tensor, and its effects are expected to be important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-08 Francisco Cabral , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We transcribe into the framework of the torsionful version of the {\epsilon}-formalism of Infeld and van der Waerden the world definition of the Weyl tensor for a curved spacetime that occurs in the realm of Einstein-Cartan's theory. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 J. G. Cardoso

We describe the first numerical Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff solutions of compact objects in entangled relativity, which is an alternative to the framework of general relativity that does not have any additional free parameter. Assuming a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Denis Arruga , Olivier Rousselle , Olivier Minazzoli

We establish the existence of time-dependent solitons in a modified gravity framework, which is defined by the low energy limit of theories with a weakly broken galileon symmetry and a mass term. These are regular vacuum configurations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Juan Barranco , Javier Chagoya , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Gustavo Niz , Armando A. Roque

We consider a Weyssenhoff fluid assuming that the spacetime is homogeneous and isotropic, therefore being relevant for cosmological considerations of gravity theories with torsion. In this paper, it is explicitely shown that the Weyssenhoff…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-21 Christian G. Boehmer , Piotr Bronowski

This paper presents the class of solutions to the Einstein field equations for the uncharged static spherically symmetric compact object PSR J0952-0607 by using Generalized Tolman-Kuchowicz space-time metric with quadratic equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Hemani R. Acharya , D. M. Pandya , Bharat Parekh , V. O. Thomas

The theory of distributions in non-Riemannian spaces is used to obtain exact static thin domain wall solutions of Einstein-Cartan equations of gravity. Curvature $ \delta $-singularities are found while Cartan torsion is given by Heaviside…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

We investigate the existence of static, spherically symmetric compact objects within the framework of symmetric teleparallel scalar-tensor gravity. This theory extends the Brans-Dicke and scalar-tensor models within the symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Grigorios Panotopoulos , Andrés Lueiza-Colipí , Nikolaos Dimakis , Andronikos Paliathanasis

Einstein-Cartan theory is formulated in (1+2)-dimensions using the algebra of exterior differential forms. A Dirac spinor is coupled to gravity and the field equations are obtained by a variational principle. The space-time torsion is found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-05 T. Dereli , N. Ozdemir , O. Sert

We investigate the motion of a spinning test particle in a spatially-flat FRW-type space-time in the framework of the Einstein-Cartan theory. The space-time has a torsion arising from a spinning fluid filling the space-time. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Morteza Mohseni

We investigate torsion-driven cosmological dynamics within the framework of Einstein-Cartan gravity using the De Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian formalism, where the tetrad and Lorentz connection act as independent variables and the Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Aarav Shah , M. Yu. Khlopov , M. Krasnov

An example is given of a plane topological defect solution of linearized Einstein-Cartan (EC) field equation representing a cosmic wall boundary of spinning matter. The source of Cartan torsion is composed of two orthogonal lines of static…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

The influence of space-time torsion on gravitational interaction at cosmological and astrophysical scales is discussed within the framework of gauge gravitation theory in Riemann-Cartan space-time. It is shown that the interaction of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 A. V. Minkevich