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The usual derivation of Einstein's field equations from the Einstein--Hilbert action is performed by silently assuming the metric tensor's symmetric character. If this symmetry is not assumed, the result is a new theory, such as Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Viktor T. Toth

In this and a companion paper, we show that quantum field theories with gauge symmetries permit a broader class of classical dynamics than typically assumed. In this article, we show that the dynamics extracted from the path integral or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

We prove that every Einstein metric on the unit ball B^4 of C^2, asymptotic to the Bergman metric, is equal to it up to a diffeomorphism. We need a solution of Seiberg--Witten equations in this infinite volume setting. Therefore, and more…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yann Rollin

A recent proposal equates the circuit complexity of a quantum gravity state with the gravitational action of a certain patch of spacetime. Since Einstein's equations follow from varying the action, it should be possible to derive them by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-24 Bartlomiej Czech

A new class of solutions of the Einstein field equations in spherical symmetry is found. The new solutions are mathematically described as the metrics admitting separation of variables in area-radius coordinates. Physically, they describe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Giambo' , Fabio Giannoni , Giulio Magli , Paolo Piccione

Identifying an appropriate set of ``observables'' is a nontrivial task for most approaches to quantum gravity. We describe how it may be accomplished in the context of a recently proposed family of stochastic (but classical) dynamical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Graham Brightwell , H. Fay Dowker , Joe Henson , Raquel S. Garcia , Rafael D. Sorkin

We re-investigate how generic off-diagonal cosmological solutions depending, in general, on all spacetime coordinates can be constructed in massive and f-modified gravity using the anholonomic frame deformation method. There are constructed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-06 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We consider the Einstein-Boltzmann system for massless particles in the Bianchi I space-time with scattering cross-sections in a certain range of soft potentials. We assume that the space-time has an initial conformal gauge singularity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Ho Lee , Ernesto Nungesser , John Stalker , Paul Tod

A practical way to deal with the problem of time in quantum cosmology and quantum gravity is proposed. The main tool is effective equations, which mainly restrict explicit considerations to semiclassical regimes but have the crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-20 Martin Bojowald , Philipp A Hoehn , Artur Tsobanjan

Here show that, pure affine actions based solely on the Riemann curvature tensor lead to Einstein field equations for gravitation. The matter and radiation involved are general enough to impose no restrictions on material dynamics or vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Durmus Demir , Oktay Dogangun , Tonguc Rador , Selin Soysal

We show that that four dimensional conformal gravity plus a simple Neumann boundary condition can be used to get the semiclassical (or tree level) wavefunction of the universe of four dimensional asymptotically de-Sitter or Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-10 Juan Maldacena

We prove that the Einstein equations can be solved in a very general form for arbitrary spacetime dimensions and various types of vacuum and non-vacuum cases following a geometric method of anholonomic frame deformations for constructing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We study a class of theories in which space-time is treated classically, while interacting with quantum fields. These circumvent various no-go theorems and the pathologies of semi-classical gravity, by being linear in the density matrix and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-15 Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

The demand to obtain answers to highly complex problems within strong-field gravity has been met with significant progress in the numerical solution of Einstein's equations - along with some spectacular results - in various setups. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Carlos Herdeiro , Ulrich Sperhake

It is shown that the vacuum Einstein equations for an arbitrary stationary axisymmetric space-time can be completely separated by re-formulating the Ernst equation and its associated linear system in terms of a non-autonomous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Korotkin , H. Nicolai

We give an alternative description of the physical content of general relativity that does not require a Lorentz invariant spacetime. Instead, we find that gravity admits a dual description in terms of a theory where local size is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-30 Henrique Gomes , Sean Gryb , Tim Koslowski

In this paper, inspired by quantum field theory, or more specifically QED, we propose a dynamical model for relativity. By adopting the approach provided by this dynamical model, we provide a dynamical explanation for relativistic phenomena…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 İnanç Şahin

Historians recently rehabilitated Einstein's "physical strategy" for General Relativity (GR). Independently, particle physicists similarly re-derived Einstein's equations for a massless spin 2 field. But why not a light \emph{massive} spin…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 J. Brian Pitts

The strong unique continuation property for Einstein metrics can be concluded from the well-known fact that Einstein metrics are analytic in geodesic normal coordinates. Here we give a proof of the same result that given two Einstein…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-27 Willie Wai-Yeung Wong , Pin Yu

This research is an extension of the author's article \cite{zar}, in which conformally invariant generalization of string theory was suggested to higher-dimensional objects. Special cases of the proposed theory are Einstein's theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-13 Farkhat Zaripov