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We consider static spherically symmetric self-gravitating configurations of the perfect fluid within the framework of the torsion-based extended theory of gravity. In particular, we use the covariant formulation of $f(T)$ gravity with $f(T)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Sasa Ilijic , Marko Sossich

We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions of the semiclassical Einstein equation in flat cosmological spacetimes driven by a quantum massive scalar field with arbitrary coupling to the scalar curvature. In the semiclassical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Paolo Meda , Nicola Pinamonti , Daniel Siemssen

Building on general formulas obtained from the approximate renormalized effective action, the approximate stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive scalar field with arbitrary curvature coupling in the spacetime of charged black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Waldemar Berej , Jerzy Matyjasek

We construct quasiequilibrium sequences of black hole-neutron star binaries in general relativity. We solve Einstein's constraint equations in the conformal thin-sandwich formalism, subject to black hole boundary conditions imposed on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Keisuke Taniguchi , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Joshua A. Faber , Stuart L. Shapiro

The back-reaction of a classical gravitational field interacting with quantum matter fields is described by the semiclassical Einstein equation, which has the expectation value of the quantum matter fields stress tensor as a source. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Verdaguer

Semi-classical corrections at large curvature are employed in toy models of spherically symmetric gravitational collapse in order to avoid the formation of singularities. The resulting spacetimes may produce bounces, compact remnants or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Daniele Malafarina

We provide a mode-sum prescription to directly compute the renormalized stress-energy tensor (RSET) for scalar fields in the Boulware vacuum. The method generalizes the recently developed extended coordinate method which was previously only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Julio Arrechea , Cormac Breen , Adrian Ottewill , Lorenzo Pisani , Peter Taylor

Two new families of self-consistent axisymmetric truncated equilibrium models for the description of quasi-relaxed rotating stellar systems are presented. The first extends the spherical King models to the case of solid-body rotation. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 A. L. Varri , G. Bertin

The semiclassical gravity describes gravitational back-reactions of the classical spacetime interacting with quantum matter fields but the quantum effects on the background is formally defined as higher derivative curvatures. These induce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-06 Hiroki Matsui , Naoki Watamura

We present a systematic method for constructing static, spherically symmetric regular spacetimes in general relativity satisfying the weak energy condition. Our approach relies on physically reasonable assumptions on the matter energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Zi-Liang Wang , Emmanuele Battista

A stress-energy tensor for linear gravity adapted to the harmonic gauge was recently proposed by Butcher, Hobson and Lasenby. By removing gauge constraints and imposing full metrical GR, we find a natural generalisation to the pseudotensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-06 William E V Barker , Anthony N Lasenby , Michael P Hobson , William J Handley

We study the magnitude of semiclassical gravity effects near the formation of a black-hole horizon in spherically-symmetric spacetimes. As a probe for these effects we use a quantised massless scalar field. Specifically, we calculate two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-07 Carlos Barceló , Valentin Boyanov , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay

Direct numerical integrations of the Fokker-Planck equation in energy-angular momentum space are carried out for stars orbiting a supermassive black hole (SBH) at the center of a galaxy. The algorithm, which was described in detail in an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-01 David Merritt

We explore semiclassical stellar collapse scenarios with pressure within the framework of effective loop quantum gravity. The objective of this work is to generalize existent models of semiclassical dust collapse and examine the role of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Luca Cafaro , Lorenzo Cipriani , Francesco Fazzini , Farshid Soltani

Boson stars have been extensively studied in classical gravity, but their quantum properties remain comparatively unexplored. In this paper, we compute the quantum scalar fields and stress tensor in boson star spacetimes within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Paul M. Saffin , Qi-Xin Xie

We investigate conformally coupled quantum matter fields on spherically symmetric, continuously self-similar backgrounds. By exploiting the symmetry associated with the self-similarity the general structure of the renormalized quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Patrick R Brady , Adrian C Ottewill

Considering Vaidya-Tikekar metric, we obtain a class of solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations for a charged static fluid sphere. The physical 3-space (t=constant) here is described by pseudo-spheroidal geometry. The relativistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pradip Kr. Chattopadhyay , Rumi Deb , Bikash Chandra Paul

In this article, we present a class of relativistic solutions describing spherically symmetric and static anisotropic stars in hydrostatic equilibrium. For this purpose, we consider a particularized matric potential, namely, Buchdahl ansatz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-03 S. K. Maurya , Ayan Banerjee , M. K. Jasim , J. Kumar , A. K. Prasad , Anirudh Pradhan

We explore dilaton gravity with general dilaton potentials in the semi-classical limit viewed both as a gas of blunt defects and also as a semi-classical theory in its own right. We compare the exact defect gas picture with that obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-28 Jorrit Kruthoff , Adam Levine

We consider a spherical symmetric black hole in the Schwarzschild metric and apply Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization to determine the energy levels. The canonical partition function is then computed and we show that the entropy coincides with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Marco Frasca