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Original abstract: "We construct periodic solutions of nonlinear wave equations using analytic continuation. The construction applies in particular to Einstein equations, leading to infinite-dimensional families of time-periodic solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-25 Piotr T. Chruściel

Within a semiclassical framework, we investigate spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations that (i) develop a trapped region within a finite time as measured by distant observers, and (ii) remain sufficiently regular at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Swayamsiddha Maharana , Rama Vadapalli

In this work we introduce a criterion for testing general covariance in effective quantum gravity theories. It adapts the analysis of invariance under general spacetime diffeomorphisms of the Einstein-Hilbert action to the case of effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-12 Juan Carlos Del Águila , Hugo A. Morales

A formalism (zeta-complex analysis), allowing one to construct global Einstein metrics by matching together local ones described in the papers Phys. Lett. B 513(2001)142-146; Diff. Geom. Appl. 16(2002)95-120, is developed. With this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. sparano , G. Vilasi , A. Vinogradov

A tensor description of perturbative Einsteinian gravity about an arbitrary background spacetime is developed. By analogy with the covariant laws of electromagnetism in spacetime, gravito-electromagnetic potentials and fields are defined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Simon J. Clark , Robin W. Tucker

This paper is concerned with the construction of special metrics on non-compact 4-manifolds which arise as resolutions of complex orbifold singularities. Our study is close in spirit to the construction of the hyperkaehler gravitational…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 David M. J. Calderbank , Michael A. Singer

This paper argues that the requirement of applicableness of quantum linearity to any physical level from molecules and atoms to the level of macroscopic extensional world, which leads to a main foundational problem in quantum theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 Arkady Bolotin

We study the non-unitary relation between quantum gravitational models defined using different internal times. We show that despite the non-unitarity, it is possible to provide a prescription for making unambiguous, though restricted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-08 Alice Boldrin , Przemysław Małkiewicz , Patrick Peter

It is proved in the manuscript that as long as the proper coordinate transformation is introduced,, the equations of geodetic lines described in curved space-time can be transformed into the dynamic equations in flat space-time, that is to…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-24 Mei Xiaochun

In this work, we apply the anholonomic deformation method for constructing new classes of anisotropic cosmological solutions in Einstein gravity and/or generalizations with nonholonomic variables. There are analyzed four types of, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru

By imposing natural geometrical and kinematical conditions on a conformal Killing vector in Bianchi I spacetime, we show that a class of axisymmetric metrics admits a conformal motion. This class contains new exact solutions of Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Roy Maartens , Conrad Mellin

We summarize some our recent results on encoding exact solutions of field equations in Einstein and modified gravity theories into solitonic hierarchies derived for nonholonomic curve flows with associated bi-Hamilton structure. We argue…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Sergiu I. Vacaru

The presence of a constant background antisymmetric tensor for open strings or D-branes forces the space-time coordinates to be noncommutative. An immediate consequence of this is that all fields get complexified. By applying this idea to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Ali H. Chamseddine

Diffeomorphism-induced symmetry transformations and time evolution are distinct operations in generally covariant theories formulated in phase space. Time is not frozen. Diffeomorphism invariants are consequently not necessarily constants…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. M. Pons , D. C. Salisbury

In quantum gravity there is no notion of absolute time. Like all other quantities in the theory, the notion of time has to be introduced "relationally", by studying the behavior of some physical quantities in terms of others chosen as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

Conventional approaches to quantum gravity regard quantum principles, such as nonlocality and superposition, as fundamental properties of nature and therefore argue that gravity must also be quantized. In contrast, this work introduces a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Filip Strubbe

The configuration space of general relativity is superspace - the space of all Riemannian 3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms. However, it has been argued that the configuration space for gravity should be conformal superspace - the space of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bryan Kelleher

All gauge theories need ``something fixed'' even as ``something changes.'' Underlying the implementation of these ideas all major physical theories make indispensable use of an elaborately designed spacetime model as the ``something…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Carl H. Brans

Using our anholonomic frame deformation method, we show how generic off-diagonal cosmological solutions depending, in general, on all spacetime coordinates and undergoing a phase of ultra-slow contraction can be constructed in massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-05 Sergiu I. Vacaru

The diffeomorphism covariance is a fundamental property of General Relativity which leads to the fact that the same solution of Einstein equation can be given in completely distinct forms in different coordinate systems. Distinguishing or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Pujian Mao