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In this paper, we initiate the rigorous mathematical study of the problem of impulsive gravitational spacetime waves. We construct such spacetimes as solutions to the characteristic initial value problem of the Einstein vacuum equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-21 Jonathan Luk , Igor Rodnianski

All non-twisting Petrov-type N solutions of vacuum Einstein field equations with cosmological constant Lambda are summarized. They are shown to belong either to the non-expanding Kundt class or to the expanding Robinson-Trautman class.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Bicak , J. Podolsky

This research is an extension of the author's article \cite{zar}, in which conformally invariant generalization of string theory was suggested to higher-dimensional objects. Special cases of the proposed theory are Einstein's theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-13 Farkhat Zaripov

In this paper we review a recently developed approximate method for investigation of dynamics of compressible ellipsoidal figures. Collapse and subsequent behaviour are described by a system of ordinary differential equations for time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-03 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , O. Yu. Tsupko

In this paper we consider singular timelike spherical hypersurfaces embedded in a $D$-dimensional spherically symmetric bulk spacetime which is an electrovacuum solution of Einstein equations with cosmological constant. We analyse the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-19 Marcos A. Ramirez , Daniel Aparicio

We report on the existence and stability of freely moving solitons in a spatially inhomogeneous Bose- Einstein condensate with helicoidal spin-orbit (SO) coupling. In spite of the periodically varying parameters, the system allows for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-22 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop

A new class of solutions of the Einstein field equations in spherical symmetry is found. The new solutions are mathematically described as the metrics admitting separation of variables in area-radius coordinates. Physically, they describe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Giambo' , Fabio Giannoni , Giulio Magli , Paolo Piccione

We obtain a new family of exact vacuum solutions to quadratic gravity that describe pp-waves with two-dimensional wave surfaces that can have any prescribed constant curvature. When the wave surfaces are flat we recover the Peres waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Sjors Heefer , Lorens F. Niehof , Andrea Fuster

Seven new solutions to the interior static and spherically symmetric Einstein's field equations (EFE) are found and investigated. These new solutions are a generalisation of the quadratic density fall-off profile of the Tolman VII solution.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-02 Ambrish M. Raghoonundun

The most detailed existing proposal for the structure of spacetime singularities originates in the work of Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz. We show rigorously the correctness of this proposal in the case of analytic solutions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Lars Andersson , Alan D. Rendall

We establish the existence of smooth vacuum Gowdy solutions, which are asymptotically velocity term dominated (AVTD) and have T3-spatial topology, in an infinite dimensional family of generalized wave gauges. These results show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-11 Ellery Ames , Florian Beyer , James Isenberg , Philippe G. LeFloch

In this paper, in an FLRW background and a perfect fluid equation of state, we explore the possibility of the realization of an emergent scenario in a 4D regularized extension of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, with the field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-12 Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan

Coherent structures, such as solitary waves, appear in many physical problems, including fluid mechanics, optics, quantum physics, and plasma physics. A less studied setting is found in geophysics, where highly viscous fluids couple to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-01-04 Gideon Simpson , Michael I. Weinstein

We prove uniform finite-time existence of solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations in polarized U(1) symmetry which have uniformly positive incoming $H^1$ energy supported on an arbitrarily small set in the 2 + 1 spacetime obtained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Spyros Alexakis , Nathan Thomas Carruth

A class of radiative solutions of Einstein's field equations with a negative cosmological constant and a pure radiation is investigated. The space-times, which generalize the Defrise solution, represent exact gravitational waves which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Podolsky

A new Lagrangian framework has recently been proposed to describe interactions between relativistic perfect fluids and scalar fields. In this paper we investigate the Einstein static universe in this new class of theories, which have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-06 Christian G. Boehmer , Nicola Tamanini , Matthew Wright

The cosmological constant $\Lambda$ used to be a freedom in Einstein's theory of general relativity, where one had a proclivity to set it to zero purely for convenience. The signs of $\Lambda$ or $\Lambda$ being zero would describe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-22 Vee-Liem Saw

The de Sitter state and the static Einstein Universe are unique states that have a constant scalar Ricci curvature ${\cal R}$. It was shown earlier that such a unique symmetry of the de Sitter state leads to special thermodynamic properties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 G. E. Volovik

With the arrival of the era of gravitational wave astronomy, the strong gravitational field regime will be explored soon in various aspects. In this article, we provide a general review over cylindrical systems in Einstein's theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 K. Bronnikov , N. O. Santos , Anzhong Wang

We develop a new approach to gravitational waves in which the Einstein equations are governed by the cosmological constant which is related to the existence of a manifold which is closed. We study an example in which the matter Lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 Luis Santiago Ridao , Mauricio Bellini