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We consider a nonlinear dielectric medium surrounding a static, charged and spherically symmetric compact body which gravitational field is driven by General Relativity (GR). Considering the propagating waves on the dielectric medium, we…

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We present shape-preserving spatially accelerating electromagnetic wavepackets in curved space: wavepackets propagating along non-geodesic trajectories while recovering their structure periodically. These wavepackets are solutions to the…

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

We study Maxwell's equations in random media with small fluctuations of the electric permittivity. We consider a setup where the waves propagate toward a preferred direction, called range. We decompose the electromagnetic wave field in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

We present a fully covariant and gauge-invariant formulation of electromagnetic wave propagation in static, spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes, developed entirely within Schwarzschild-like coordinates. Start ing from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Abdullah Guvendi , Omar Mustafa Semra Gurtas Dogan , Hassan Hassanabadi

We present a general theory of three-dimensional nonparaxial spatially-accelerating waves of the Maxwell equations. These waves constitute a two-dimensional structure exhibiting shape-invariant propagation along semicircular trajectories.…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-14 Miguel A. Bandres , Miguel A. Alonso , Ido Kaminer , Mordechai Segev

Formal analogies between gravitational and optical phenomena have been explored for over a century, providing valuable insights into kinematic aspects of general relativity. Here, this analogy is employed to study light propagation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Lucas T. de Paula , Caio C. Holanda Ribeiro , Vitorio A. De Lorenci

We use Maxwell's equations in a sourceless, inhomogeneous medium with continuous permeability $\mu (\mathbf{r}) $ and permittivity $% \epsilon (\mathbf{r}) $ to study the wave propagation. The general form of the wave equation is derived…

General Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , Ashkan Roozbeh , M. Halilsoy

The quasi-one-dimensional rhombic array of the waveguides is considered. System of equations describing coupled waves in the waveguide in the linear limit is solved exactly. The electric field distribution was found both for the…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-14 Andrey I. Maimistov , Viktor A. Patrikeev

We present a study of geometric phases in classical wave and polarisation optics using the basic mathematical framework of quantum mechanics. Important physical situations taken from scalar wave optics, pure polarisation optics, and the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 N. Mukunda , S. Chaturvedi , R. Simon

In the current work we investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the field of gravitational waves. Starting with simple case of an electromagnetic wave travelling in the field of a plane monochromatic gravitational wave we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. G. Polnarev , D. Baskaran

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by an obstacle is analyzed through a set of partial differential equations combining the Maxwell's model with the mechanics of fluids. Solitary type EM waves, having compact support, may easily be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Daniele Funaro , Eugene Kashdan

We present the exact solution to the linearized Maxwell equations in space-time slightly curved by a gravitational wave. We show that in general, even dealing with a first-order theory in the strength of the gravitational field, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Mirco Calura , Enrico Montanari

Elastic wave propagation is a century-old problem. Unlike on a flat manifold, analytical solution is not well established for a curved manifold. In this study we take a step towards building an analytical framework for solving the elastic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Puskar Mondal , Subhajyoti Chaudhuri

Light undergoes perturbation as gravitational waves pass by. This is shown by solving Maxwell's equations in a spacetime with gravitational waves; a solution exhibits a perturbation due to gravitational waves. We determine the perturbation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-05 Dong-Hoon Kim , Chan Park

In an isotropic, homogeneous, nondissipative, dielectric-magnetic medium that is simply moving with respect to an inertial reference frame, planewave solutions of the Maxwell curl postulates can be such that the phase velocity and the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The propagation of a quasi-harmonic electromagnetic wave in a bulk hyperbolic dielectric metamaterial is considered. If the group velocities dispersion is not taken into account, then wave propagation can be described either by the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-04 A. I. Maimistov

By solving Maxwell's equations the exact dispersion equation for electromagnetic waves propagating in a layered coaxial ferrite line is obtained. In particular the analytical consideration is carried out for a simpler case of complete…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 V. A. Balakirev , I. N. Onishchenko

We investigate wave propagation in curved, thin elastic waveguides, where curvature is shown to be equivalent to a spatially modulated refractive index. We establish this relationship within a theoretical framework that leverages…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Matteo Mazzotti , Mohit Gupta , Christian Santangelo , Massimo Ruzzene

Colliding or noncolliding plane fronted electromagnetic or gravitational waves are the asymptotic limit of Robinson--Trautman spherical electromagnetic or gravitational waves. Noncolliding plane fronted waves contain no information about…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld