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In this paper, we obtain dispersion relations corresponding to plane wave solutions in various Lorentz-breaking extensions of gravity with dimensions 3, 4, 5 and 6. We demonstrate that these dispersion relations display an usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , A. R. Vieira

Finslerian extensions of Special and General Relativity -- commonly referred to as Very Special and Very General Relativity -- necessitate the development of a unified Lorentz-Finsler geometry. However, the scope of this geometric framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Miguel Sánchez

We write the equation of geodesic deviations in the spacetime of $pp$-waves in terms of the Newman-Penrose scalars and apply it to study gravitational waves in quadratic curvature gravity. We show that quadratic curvature gravity $pp$-waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Edgard C. de Rey Neto

We consider the geometry of spacetime based on a non-metric, Finslerian, length measure, which, in terms of physics, represents a generalized clock. Our defnition of Finsler spacetimes ensure a well defined notion of causality, a precise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-11 Christian Pfeifer , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

We embed the Penrose limit into the Weyl classical double copy. Thereby, we provide a lift of the double copy properties of plane wave spacetimes into black hole geometries and we open a novel avenue towards taking the classical double copy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Samarth Chawla , Kwinten Fransen , Cynthia Keeler

We study the low-regularity (in-)extendibility of spacetimes within the synthetic-geometric framework of Lorentzian length spaces developed in [KS:17]. To this end, we introduce appropriate notions of geodesics and timelike geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-07 James D. E. Grant , Michael Kunzinger , Clemens Sämann

As a prototypical massive field theory we study the scalar field on the recently introduced Finsler spacetimes. We show that particle excitations exist that propagate faster than the speed of light recognized as the boundary velocity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-23 Christian Pfeifer , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

Plane-symmetric gravitational waves are considered as gravitational lenses. Numbers of images, frequency shifts, mutual angles, and image distortion parameters are computed exactly in essentially all non-singular plane wave spacetimes. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Abraham I. Harte

In this thesis we consider several aspects of general relativity relating to exact solutions of the Einstein equations. In the first part gravitational plane waves in the Rosen form are investigated, and we develop a formalism for writing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-29 Bethan Cropp

After some introductory discussion of the definition of Finsler spacetimes and their symmetries, we consider a class of spherically symmetric and static Finsler spacetimes which are small perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-24 Claus Laemmerzahl , Volker Perlick , Wolfgang Hasse

Extended Theories of Gravity are considered as a new approach for solving the infrared and ultraviolet scale problems of the Standard Theory of Gravity (General Relativity). Observational evidence of gravitational waves and subsequent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

Recently, a link between Lorentzian and Finslerian Geometries has been carried out, leading to the notion of wind Riemannian structure (WRS), a generalization of Finslerian Randers metrics. Here, we further develop this notion and its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

A limiting diagram for the Segre classification of the energy-momentum tensor is obtained and discussed in connection with a Penrose specialization diagram for the Segre types. A generalization of the coordinate-free approach to limits of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Filipe M. Paiva , Marcelo J. Reboucas , Graham S. Hall , Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

We investigate geodesic completeness in the full family of pp-wave or Brinkmann spacetimes in their extended as well as in their impulsive form. This class of geometries contains the recently studied gyratonic pp-waves, modelling the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-18 Clemens Sämann , Roland Steinbauer , Robert Švarc

We argue that the well-known geodesic completeness property of pp-waves, can be disregarded once the geodesics are extracted as being extended along sets of Brinkmann coordinates. This issue is investigated in the more general context of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-24 Mohsen Fathi , Morteza Mohseni

We construct gravitational dynamics for Finsler spacetimes in terms of an action integral on the unit tangent bundle. These spacetimes are generalizations of Lorentzian metric manifolds which satisfy necessary causality properties. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-12 Christian Pfeifer , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

In this article, we extend Thurston's asymmetric metric and the associated Finsler norm, originally defined for Teichm\"uller space, to the setting of Margulis spacetimes. We also establish several convexity properties of both the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Krishnendu Gongopadhyay , Neelanjan Mondal

The recent increasing interest in the study of Lorentz-Finsler geometry has led to several applications to model real-world physical phenomena. Our purpose is to provide a simple, step-by-step review on how to build and implement such a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Enrique Pendás-Recondo

Within all approaches to quantum gravity small violations of the Einstein Equivalence Principle are expected. This includes violations of Lorentz invariance. While usually violations of Lorentz invariance are introduced through the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Claus Laemmerzahl , Dennis Lorek , Hansjoerg Dittus

In this paper, we study the gravitational wave polarization modes for some particular $f(R)$ models using Newman-Penrose formalism. We find two extra scalar modes of gravitational wave (longitudinal and transversal modes) in addition to two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 M. Sharif , Aisha Siddiqa