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Euler observers are a fundamental tool for the study of spacetime evolution. Cauchy surfaces are evolved through the use of hypersurface orthogonal fields and their relationship to coordinate observers, that enable the use of already…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-20 Alcides Garat

The recently unveiled deep-field images from the James Webb Space Telescope have renewed interest in what we can and cannot see of the universe. Answering these questions requires understanding the so-called "cosmological horizons" and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Michele Re Fiorentin , Stefano Re Fiorentin

Recent theoretical work has revealed that basic observables of quantum field theory in de Sitter space, known as in-in or cosmological correlators, exhibit surprisingly simple mathematical structure reminiscent of scattering amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Sadra Jazayeri , Arthur Lipstein , Joe Marshall , Jiajie Mei , Ivo Sachs

The gravitational field equations on cosmological scales are obtained by averaging the Einstein field equations of general relativity. By assuming spatial homogeneity and isotropy on the largest scales, the local inhomogeneities affect the…

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

The geometric foundations of General Relativity are revisited, with particular attention to its gauge invariance, as a key to understanding the true nature of spacetime. Beyond the common image of spacetime as a deformable 'fabric' filling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Jaume de Haro , Emilio Elizalde

We consider the equivalence problem for cosmological models in four-dimensional gravity theories. A cosmological model is considered as a triple $(M, {\bf g},{\bf u})$ consisting of a spacetime $(M, {\bf g})$ and a preferred normalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-03 Lode Wylleman , Alan Coley , David McNutt , Matthew Aadne

The construction of exact linearized solutions to the Einstein equations within the Bondi-Sachs formalism is extended to the case of linearization about de Sitter spacetime. The gravitational wave field measured by distant observers is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-03 Nigel T. Bishop

The metric of arbitrary dimensional Schwarzschild black hole in the background of Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe is presented in the cosmic coordinates system. In particular, the arbitrary dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter metric is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Chang Jun Gao

There is widespread disagreement about how the general covariance of a theory affects its quantization. Without a complete quantum theory of gravity, one can examine quantum consequences of coordinate choices only in highly idealized `toy'…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Cisco Gooding , William G. Unruh

Extending the approach developed by Ara\'ujo and Stoeger [1] and improved in Ara\'ujo {\it et al} [2], we have shown how to construct dust-filled $\Lambda \neq 0$ Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmological models from FLRW…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 M. E. Araujo , W. S. Stoeger , R. C. Arcuri , M. L. Bedran

The observation of the motion of particles and light near a gravitating object is until now the only way to explore and to measure the gravitational field. In the case of exact black hole solutions of the Einstein equations the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Eva Hackmann , Claus Lämmerzahl

Starting from the Einstein equations in Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) spacetime and imposing Friedmann-Robertson-Walker coordinates at large distances, we find two coordinate systems with time-dependent metrics that are smooth across both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Leonardo de Lima , Davi C. Rodrigues

We review the most general scalar-tensor cosmological models with up to second-order derivatives in the field equations that have a fixed spatially flat de Sitter critical point independent of the material content or vacuum energy. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-20 Nelson J. Nunes , Prado Martin-Moruno , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We analyze null- and spacelike radial geodesics in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime connecting two conjugate static sphere observers, i.e. free-falling observers at a fixed radius in between the two horizons. We explicitly determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Mir Mehedi Faruk , Edward Morvan , Jan Pieter van der Schaar

A classic problem in general relativity, long studied by both physicists and philosophers of physics, concerns whether the geodesic principle may be derived from other principles of the theory, or must be posited independently. In a recent…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 James Owen Weatherall

A conservative extension of general relativity by integrable Weyl geometry is formulated, and a new class of cosmological models ({\em Weyl universes}) is introduced and studied. A short discussion of how these new models behave in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erhard Scholz

This paper presents a general averaging procedure for a set of observers which are tilted with respect to the cosmological matter fluid. After giving the full set of equations describing the local dynamics, we define the averaging procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-22 J. Larena

A new redshift formula is obtained considering the longitudinal Doppler effect in the de Sitter expanding universe where the relative geodesic motion is governed by the Lorenzian isometries of our new de Sitter relativity [I. I. Cot\u…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Ion I. Cotaescu

We investigate cosmology-driven modifications to Schwarzschild-like black hole spacetimes and analyze their impact on photon propagation, gravitational lensing, and shadow observation. The gravitational deflection angle is computed using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Ritesh Pandey , Shubham Kala , Amare Abebe , Hemwati Nandan , G. G. L. Nashed

A tetrad-based procedure is presented for solving Einstein's field equations for spherically-symmetric systems; this approach was first discussed by Lasenby et al. in the language of geometric algebra. The method is used to derive metrics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Roshina Nandra , Anthony N. Lasenby , Michael P. Hobson