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We study the behaviour of a specific system of relativistic elasticity in its own gravitational field: a static, spherically symmetric shell whose wall is of arbitrary thickness consisting of hyperelastic material. We give the system of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 CM Losert-Valiente Kroon

We summarize the general formalism describing surface flows in three-dimensional space in a form which is suitable for various astrophysical applications. We then apply the formalism to the analysis of non-radial perturbations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Bicak , B. G. Schmidt

The dynamical stability of massive thin shells with a given equation of state (EOS) is here compared (both for the barotropic and non-barotropic case) with the results coming from thermodynamical stability. Our results show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-15 Santiago Esteban Perez Bergliaffa , Marcelo Chiapparini , Luz Marina Reyes

We consider the dynamics of timelike spherical thin matter shells in vacuum. A general formalism for thin shells matching two arbitrary spherical spacetimes is derived, and subsequently specialized to the vacuum case. We first examine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves

Spacetimes with a thin shell offer a framework where both the dynamical stability and the thermodynamical stability of the matter comprising the shell can be consistently studied. In the present work, we consider the dynamical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Ernesto Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre , Miguel Peñafiel

We present a broad class of spherical thin shells of matter in F(R) gravity. We show that the corresponding junction conditions determine the equation of state between the energy density and the pressure/tension at the surface. We analyze…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

In this article, we construct a broad family of spacetimes with spherically symmetric thin shells in unimodular gravity. We present the framework for the analysis of the dynamical stability of the configurations under perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Gabriel R. Bengochea , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Griselda Figueroa-Aguirre

We study equilibrium shapes, stability and possible bifurcation diagrams of fluids in higher dimensions, held together by either surface tension or self-gravity. We consider the equilibrium shape and stability problem of self-gravitating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri

We establish the dynamical instability of a static, spherically symmetric, and infinitesimally thin shell in general relativity. The shell is made up of a perfect fluid with a barotropic equation of state, and it produces a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Tristan Pitre , Berend Schneider , Eric Poisson

We develop an extremely general and robust framework that can be adapted to wide classes of generic spherically symmetric thin-shell gravastars. The thin shell (transition layer) will be permitted to move freely in the bulk spacetimes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-25 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Prado Martín-Moruno , Nadiezhda Montelongo-García , Matt Visser

A family of spherical shells with varying thickness is derived by using a simple Newtonian potential-density pair. Then, a particular isotropic form of a metric in spherical coordinates is used to construct a General Relativistic version of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Vogt , P. S. Letelier

We study spherically symmetric timelike thin-shells in $3+1-$dimensional bulk spacetime with a variable equation of state for the fluid presented on the shell. In such a fluid the angular pressure $p$ is a function of both surface energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-11 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy , S. N. Hamad Amen

We study the symmetries enjoyed by the Newtonian equations of motion of the non-relativistic dark matter fluid coupled to gravity which give rise to the phenomenon of gravitational instability. We also discuss some consistency relations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

In this paper we study the dynamics of self gravitating spherically symmetric thin shells of counter rotating particles. We consider all possible velocity distributions for the particles, and show that the equations of motion by themselves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-09 Reinaldo J. Gleiser , Marcos A. Ramirez

In this article we study the mechanical stability of spherically symmetric thin shells with charge, in Einstein-Maxwell and Einstein-Born-Infeld theories. We analyze linearized perturbations preserving the symmetry, for shells around vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-05 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Claudio Simeone

The characterization and mechanical stability of charged thin shells with spherical symmetry are analyzed in the context of Einstein-Born-Infeld theory. The study of stability is performed by considering linearized perturbations preserving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-10 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Claudio Simeone

We study the properties of a system consisting of an uncharged spherically symmetric two dimensional extended object which encloses a stationary point charge placed in the shell's center. We show that there can be a static and stable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-09 Eduardo I. Guendelman , Idan Shilon

The spherically symmetric thin shells of the barotropic fluids with the linear equation of state are considered within the frameworks of general relativity. We study several aspects of the shells as completely relativistic models of stars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

We study the collapse towards the gravitational radius of a macroscopic spherical thick shell surrounding an inner massive core. This overall electrically neutral macroshell is composed by many nested delta-like massive microshells which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 G. L. Alberghi , R. Casadio , D. Fazi

We consider static cosmological solutions along with their stability properties in the framework of a recently proposed theory of massive gravity. We show that the modifcation introduced in the cosmological equations leads to several new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-27 Luca Parisi , Ninfa Radicella , Gaetano Vilasi
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