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The canonical quantum theory of gravity -- Quantum Geometrodynamics (QG) is applied to the homogeneous Bianchi type IX cosmological model. As a result, the framework for the quantum theory of homogeneous cosmologies is developed. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Arkady Kheyfets , Warner A. Miller , Ruslan Vaulin

A calculation by Jacobson [1] strongly implies that the field equations which describe gravity are emergent phenomena. In this paper, the method is extended to the case of a non-commutative spacetime. By making use of a non-commutative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-21 Simon Moolman

In general relativity, an external observer cannot distinguish distinct internal structures between two spherically symmetric stars that have the same total mass $M$. However, when quantum corrections are taken into account, the external…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-05 Sojeong Cheong , Wontae Kim

The equation of motion is the important equation for obtain the extra force and Raychaudhuri equation. By considering an explicitly coupling between an arbitrary function of the scalar Gauss-Bonnet, G and the Lagrangian density of matter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-29 Y. Alipour Fakhri , MOjtaba Safdarian , S. Zamani Moghaddam

The averaged null energy condition has known violations for quantum fields in curved space, even if one considers only achronal geodesics. Many such examples involve rapid variation in the stress-energy tensor in the vicinity of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Douglas Urban , Ken D. Olum

The observed cosmic acceleration was attributed to an exotic dark energy in the framework of classical general relativity. The dark energy behaves very similar with vacuum energy in quantum mechanics. However, once the quantum effects are…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. J. Luo

We show that a general solution of the Einstein equations that describes approach to an inhomogeneous and anisotropic sudden spacetime singularity does not experience geodesic incompleteness. This generalises the result established for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-11 John D. Barrow , S. Cotsakis

The celebrated geodesic congruence equation of Raychaudhuri, together with the resulting singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking that it enabled, yield a highly general set of conditions under which a spacetime (or, more generically, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Jonathan Gorard

We discuss spacetime instability for effective field theories of quantum gravity. The effective action of gravity introduces infinite higher derivative curvature terms $R^{2}, { R }_{ \mu \nu }{ R }^{ \mu \nu }, R_{\mu\nu\kappa\lambda}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-21 Hiroki Matsui

Within the theory of General Relativity, we study the solution and range of applicability of the standard geodesic deviation equation in highly symmetric spacetimes. In the Schwarzschild spacetime, the solution is used to model satellite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Dennis Philipp , Dirk Puetzfeld , Claus Laemmerzahl

A recent generalisation of the Raychaudhuri equations for timelike geodesic congruences to families of $D$ dimensional extremal, timelike, Nambu--Goto surfaces embedded in an $N$ dimensional Lorentzian background is reviewed. Specialising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sayan Kar

Classical clocks measure proper time along their worldline, and Riemannian geometry provides tools for predicting the time shown by clocks in both flat and curved spacetimes. Common approaches to time in quantum systems, based for instance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Joseph Balsells , Martin Bojowald

The notion of quantum-mechanical completeness is adapted to situations where the only adequate description is in terms of quantum field theory in curved space-times. It is then shown that Schwarzschild black holes, although geodesically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Stefan Hofmann , Marc Schneider

On a Riemannian manifold, lower Ricci curvature bounds are known to be characterized by geodesic convexity properties of various entropies with respect to the Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein square distance from optimal transportation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J McCann

A quantum clock cannot be modeled as a point mass moving along a single geodesic if it is in a state with nonzero position fluctuations. Instead, it is an extended object subject to tidal forces and a superposition of time dilations at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Joseph Balsells , Martin Bojowald

The generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) corrected modified relativistic particle model has been derived in curved space-time. From this modified model, the equation of motion (EM) has been constructed relativistically in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-16 Souvik Pramanik

The geodesic deviation equation has been investigated in the framework of $f(T,\mathcal{T})$ gravity, where $T$ denotes the torsion and $\mathcal{T}$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, respectively. The FRW metric is assumed and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-06 M. G. Ganiou , Ines G. Salako , M. J. S. Houndjo , J. Tossa

To explore the properties of space and initial singularities in the context of general relativity, where spacetime becomes poorly defined and no longer belongs to a regular manifold, we examine the evolution of the expansion of timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Abdel Nasser Tawfik , Azzah A. Alshehri , Antonio Pasqua

Different approaches are compared to formulation of quantum mechanics of a particle on the curved spaces. At first, the canonical, quasi-classical and path integration formalisms are considered for quantization of geodesic motion on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Tagirov

In this paper we investigate the fate of the universe with an anisotropic background sourced by anisotropic matter. We see the behaviour of the Raychaudhuri Equation and investigate wheather a congrurence of time like geodesics focus to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Manabendra Sharma