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We study the constraint equations for the Einstein-scalar field system on compact manifolds. Using the conformal method we reformulate these equations as a determined system of nonlinear partial differential equations. By introducing a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat , James Isenberg , Daniel Pollack

Linear spinor fields are a generalization of the Dirac field that have transparent cluster decomposability properties needed for classical correspondence of relativistic quantum systems. The algebra of these fields directly incorporate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-03 James Lindesay

From the 16-component Dirac-K\"{a}hler field theory, spinor equations for two types of massless vector photon fields with different parities have been derived. Their equivalent tensor equations in terms of the strength tensor $F_{ab}$ and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-08-06 V. M. Red'kov

In this work, we present two brane-world-type solutions in a two-dimensional (2D) dilaton gravity model with singular space-time backgrounds. By employing a first-order superpotential formalism, we first construct the 2D analogues of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Peng Yu , Yuan Zhong , Ziqi Wang , Hui Wang , Mengyang Zhang

Some recently discovered nonperturbative strong-field effects in tensor-scalar theories of gravitation are interpreted as a scalar analog of ferromagnetism: "spontaneous scalarization". This phenomenon leads to very significant deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Thibault Damour , Gilles Esposito-Farese

Starting from the Pauli Hamiltonian operator, we derive a scalar quantum kinetic equations for spin-1/2 systems. Here the regular Wigner two-state matrix is replaced by a scalar distribution function in extended phase space. Apart from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-21 Jens Zamanian , Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin

We discuss a class of exact finite energy solutions to the vacuum source-free Maxwell field equations as models for multi- and single cycle laser pulses in classical interaction with relativistic charged test particles. These solutions are…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Goto , R. W. Tucker , T. J. Walton

This paper is the third of a series of three, and it is the continuation of math-ph/0412074 and math-ph/0412075. After reviewing the conformal spacetime structure, conformal maps are described in Minkowski spacetime as the twisted adjoint…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 Roldao da Rocha , Jayme Vaz

In this work we explore the structure of Clifford algebras and the representations of the algebraic spinors in quantum information theory. Initially we present an general formulation through elements of left minimal ideals in tensor…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Marco A. S. Trindade , Sergio Floquet , J. D. M. Vianna

In recent years the idea that not only the configuration space of particles, i.e. spacetime, but also the corresponding momentum space may have nontrivial geometry has attracted significant attention, especially in the context of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-28 Jakub Mielczarek , Tomasz Trzesniewski

In the context of generalised Brans-Dicke cosmology we use the Killing tensors of the minisuperspace in order to determine the unspecified potential of a scalar-tensor gravity theory. Specifically, based on the existence of contact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-24 G. Papagiannopoulos , John D. Barrow , S. Basilakos , A. Giacomini , A. Paliathanasis

This work has as the main aim to explore the nature of the fermionic fields, through a classification of spinor fields about physical space of interest, such as the bulk and the compactified space $S^7$ from the supergravity theories. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-20 K. P. S. de Brito

By employing the polar re-formulation, we show that there are no solutions of the Dirac equations in spherical symmetry when the spinor is required to satisfy the same symmetries as the space-time via the Lie derivative.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Stefano Vignolo , Luca Fabbri

A nonsingular emergent universe cosmology can be realized by a nonconventional spinor field as first developed in \cite{Cai:2012yf}. We study the mechanisms of generating scale-invariant primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-11 Yi-Fu Cai , Youping Wan , Xinmin Zhang

We consider the dynamics of tensor and scalar gravitational fields in the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation with the Minkowskian vacuum metric and generalize the formulation to the massless graviton. The potential of scalar field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Kiselev

A simple position probability density formulation is presented for the motion of a particle in a spherically symmetric potential. The approach provides an alternative to Newtonian methods for presentation in an elementary course, and…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Lorenzo J. Curtis , David G. Ellis

A detailed account is given on approximation schemes to the Einstein theory of general relativity where the iteration starts from the Newton theory of gravity. Two different coordinate conditions are used to represent the Einstein field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-19 Gerhard Schäfer

We review some aspects of the spinorial geometry approach to the classification of supersymmetric solutions of supergravity theories. In particular, we explain how spinorial geometry can be used to express the Killing spinor equations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 U. Gran , J. Gutowski , G. Papadopoulos , D. Roest

We employ the polar re-formulation of spinor fields to see in a new light their classification into regular and singular spinors, these last also called flag-dipoles, further splitting into the sub-classes of dipoles and flagpoles: in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Luca Fabbri

The article is a natural continuation of our paper {\em Quantum scalar field in FRW Universe with constant electromagnetic background}, Int. J. Mod. Phys. {\bf A12}, 4837 (1997). We generalize the latter consideration to the case of massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , A. E. Goncalves