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Chamseddine and Mukhanov recently proposed a modified version of general relativity that implements the idea of a limiting curvature. In the spatially flat, homogeneous, and isotropic sector, their theory turns out to agree with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-21 Norbert Bodendorfer , Andreas Schäfer , John Schliemann

We study gravitational collapse in effective loop quantum gravity, focusing on non-marginally bound configurations in Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi spacetimes. In the homogeneous limit we recover the effective dynamics of loop quantum cosmology…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Lorenzo Cipriani , Francesco Fazzini , Edward Wilson-Ewing

In this Letter, we have developed a numerically efficient framework for evaluating parameters in metric theories of gravity, and applied it to constrain the horizon-scale magnetic field in the Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson (Kerr-BR) spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Wentao Liu , Yang Liu , Di Wu , Yu-Xiao Liu

Matter and quasi-matter bounce scenarios are studied for an F(R) gravity model with holonomy corrections and a Lagrange multiplier, with a scale factor $a(t) = \left(a_0t^2 + 1 \right)^n$, where the Hubble parameter squared has a linear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Emilio Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , Tanmoy Paul

Inspired by the recent proposal for the quantum effective dynamics of the Schwarzschild spacetime given in \cite{AOS1}, we investigate the effective dynamics of the loop quantized Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) spacetime which is an extension…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-07 Cong Zhang , Xiangdong Zhang

Recently it was shown that, in an effective description motivated by loop quantum gravity, singularities of the Kruskal space-time are naturally resolved [1,2]. In this note we explore a few properties of this quantum corrected effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Abhay Ashtekar , Javier Olmedo

Loop Quantum Gravity faces challenges in constructing a well-defined Hamiltonian constraint and understanding the quantum notion of time. In this paper these issues are studied by quantizing the $U(1)^3$ model, a simplified system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-02 Sepideh Bakhoda , Yongge Ma

We investigate static and spherically symmetric vacuum solutions in the symmetric teleparallel $f(\mathbb{Q})$ modified theory of gravity. Starting from a recently proposed classification of affine connections compatible with both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 A. Dehyadegari , A. Sheykhi

Using the reconstruction method, we investigate which $F(R)$ theories, with or without the presence of matter fluids, can produce the matter bounce scenario of holonomy corrected Loop Quantum Cosmology. We focus our study in two limits of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-07 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

We study, using the metric variables, how an effective theory for the Oppenheimer-Snyder gravitational collapse can be built with the $\bar{\mu}$ scheme from Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). The collapse is analyzed for both the flat and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 L. Boldorini , G. Montani

We develop a systematic classical framework to accommodate canonical quantization of geometric and matter perturbations on a quantum homogeneous isotropic flat spacetime. The existing approach of standard cosmological perturbations is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-05 Andrea Dapor , Jerzy Lewandowski , Jacek Puchta

We propose a new model of the spherical symmetric quantum black hole in the reduced phase space formulation. We deparametrize gravity by coupling to the Gaussian dust which provides the material coordinates. The foliation by dust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-25 Muxin Han , Hongguang Liu

In this paper, we are going to discuss the gauge reduction with respect to the simplicity constraint in both classical and quantum theory of all dimensional loop quantum gravity. With the gauge reduction with respect to edge-simplicity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Gaoping Long , Xiangdong Zhang

We explore how quantum properties of spacetime, specifically the curvature of momentum space, can backreact on classical gravity within a tractable semiclassical (2+1)-dimensional framework with a negative cosmological constant. Motivated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Partha Nandi , Mainak Roy , Langa Horoto , Frederik G. Scholtz , Biswajit Chakraborty

We compute the Hamiltonian for spherically symmetric scalar field collapse in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in D dimensions using slicings that are regular across future horizons. We first reduce the Lagrangian to two dimensions using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Taves , C. D. Leonard , G. Kunstatter , R. B. Mann

As a canonical and generally covariant gauge theory, loop quantum gravity requires special techniques to derive effective actions or equations. If the proper constructions are taken into account, the theory, in spite of considerable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-02 Martin Bojowald

We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a Planckian cosmological constant. A new stochastic classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-19 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

If one replaces the constraints of the Ashtekar-Barbero $SU(2)$ gauge theory formulation of Euclidean gravity by their $U(1)^3$ version, one arrives at a consistent model which captures significant structure of its $SU(2)$ version. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-21 Sepideh Bakhoda , Thomas Thiemann

We present numerical solutions of several spacetimes of physical interest, including binary black hole mergers, in shift-symmetric Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (ESGB) gravity, and describe our methods for solving the full equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-25 William E. East , Justin L. Ripley

In the context of effective field theory, we consider quantum gravity with minimally coupled massless particles. Fixing the background geometry to be of the Kerr-Schild type, we fully determine the one-loop effective action of the theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-01 Basem Kamal El-Menoufi