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A simple general relativity theory for objects moving in gravitational fields is developed based on studying the behavior of an atom in a gravitational field. The theory is applied to calculate the satellite time dilation, light deflection…

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Only a severely restricted class of tensor fields can provide classical spacetime geometries, namely those that can carry matter field equations that are predictive, interpretable and quantizable. These three conditions on matter translate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Kristina Giesel , Frederic P. Schuller , Christof Witte , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

An action principle of singular hypersurfaces in general relativity and scalar-tensor type theories of gravity in the Einstein frame is presented without assuming any symmetry. The action principle is manifestly doubly covariant in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Shinji Mukohyama

By embedding Einstein's original formulation of GR into a broader context we show that a dynamic covariant description of gravitational stress-energy emerges naturally from a variational principle. A tensor $T^G$ is constructed from a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Dereli , R. W. Tucker

We study inverse problems for the Einstein-Maxwell equations. We prove that it is possible to generate gravitational waves from the nonlinear interactions of electromagnetic waves. By sending electromagnetic waves from a neighborhood of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

We analyse the evolution of cosmological perturbations which leads to the formation of large voids in the distribution of galaxies. We assume that perturbations are spherical and all components of the Universe - radiation, matter and dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj

Dynamical symmetries of the collisionless Boltzmann transport equation, or Vlasov equation, but under the influence of an external driving force, are derived from non-standard representations of the $2D$ conformal algebra. In the case…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Stoimen Stoimenov , Malte Henkel

In a Lorentzian spacetime there exists a smooth regular line element field $(\bm{X},-\bm{X}) $ and a unit vector $ \bm{u} $ collinear with one of the pair of vectors in the line element field. An orthogonal decomposition of symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Gary Nash

With Einstein's inertial motion (free-falling and non-rotating relative to gyroscopes), geodesics for non-relativistic particles can intersect repeatedly, allowing one to compute the space-time curvature $R^{\hat{0} \hat{0}}$ exactly.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-09 Christoph Schmid

The Cartesian material space approach to Maxwell's equations reveals the analytical solution of the continuous radial density for the extended elementary charge. Radial charges and their Coulomb fields carry equal passive and active…

General Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 I. E. Bulyzhenkov

It is argued that the world is a dissipative dynamic system, a phase flow of which is formed by conformally-symplectic mapping. The key assumption is that the concept of energy in microcosm makes sense only for the steady motions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-04-08 A. P. Alexandrov

The recent observation of gravitational waves, stimulates the question of the longtime evolution of the space-time fluctuations. Gravitational waves interact themselves through the nonlinear character of Einstein's equations of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Sergio Rica

We consider plane-symmetric spacetimes satisfying Einstein's field equations with positive cosmological constant, when the matter is a fluid whose pressure is equal to its mass-energy density (i.e. a so-called stiff fluid). We study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-01 Philippe G. LeFloch , Sophonie B. Tchapnda

The Lorentz transformations are represented on the ball of relativistically admissible velocities by Einstein velocity addition and rotations. This representation is by projective maps. The relativistic dynamic equation can be derived by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Yaakov Friedman

The inhomogeneous distribution of matter in the non-linear regime of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and voids is described by an exact, spherically symmetric inhomogeneous solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations, corresponding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. W. Moffat

We utilize a recent formulation of a spherically symmetric spacetime endowed with a general decomposition of the energy momentum tensor [Phys. Rev. D, 75, 024031 (2007)] to derive equations governing spherically symmetric distributions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul Lasky , Anthony Lun

For a conformally-coupled scalar field we obtain the conformally-related Einstein-Langevin equations, using appropriate transformations for all the quantities in the equations between two conformally-related spacetimes. In particular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-14 Seema Satin , H. T. Cho , Bei Lok Hu

The Einstein equations are non-linear and the particles of which the gravitational effect is described by these equations are lastly unknown. If renormalizable fields are assumed, then results are obtained only in the case of a at space.…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Alfred Kording

The time dependent quantum variational principle is emerging as an important means of studying quantum dynamics, particularly in early universe scenarios. To date all investigations have worked within a Gaussian framework. Here we present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Gareth J. Cheetham , E. J. Copeland

The explicit relationship is determined between the interior properties of a static cylindrical matter distribution and the metric of the exterior space-time according to Einstein gravity for space-time dimensionality larger or equal to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 J. Colding , N. K. Nielsen , Y. Verbin