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In this paper, we study the coupled Einstein constraint equations on complete manifolds through the conformal method, focusing on non-compact manifolds with flexible asymptotics. This is physically well-motivated by standard cosmological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Rodrigo Avalos , Jorge Lira , Nicolas Marque

The eikonalized parton-parton scattering amplitude at large $\sqrt{s}$ and large impact parameter, is dominated by the exchange of a hyperbolic surface in walled AdS. Its analytical continuation yields a worldsheet instanton that is at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Yizhuang Liu , Ismail Zahed

We study a gravity theory where a scalar field with potential, beyond its minimal coupling, is also coupled through a non-minimal derivative coupling with the torsion scalar which is the teleparallel equivalent of Einstein gravity. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Georgios Kofinas

An identity is derived from Einstein equation for any hypersurface H which can be foliated by spacelike two-dimensional surfaces. In the case where the hypersurface is null, this identity coincides with the two-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Gourgoulhon

The Einstein-Maxwell-Klein-Gordon Lagrangian is supplemented by a non-minimal coupling of the real scalar field to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. The non minimal coupling function is chosen as a general second degree polynomial in the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-28 Y. Brihaye , J. Renaux

This paper develops a synthetic framework for the geometric and analytic study of null (lightlike) hypersurfaces in non-smooth spacetimes. Drawing from optimal transport and recent advances in Lorentzian geometry and causality theory, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Fabio Cavalletti , Davide Manini , Andrea Mondino

We prove in the cases of spherical, plane and hyperbolic symmetry a local in time existence theorem and continuation criteria for cosmological solutions of the Einstein-Vlasov-scalar field system, with the sources generated by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tegankong , Norbert Noutchegueme , Alan D. Rendall

In the present paper, we numerically construct new non-topological, spontaneously scalarized neutron stars in the tensor-multi-scalar theories of gravity whose target space is a three-dimensional maximally symmetric space, namely either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-13 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Exact solutions describing trapped modes in a plane quantum waveguide with a small rigid obstacle are constructed in the form of convergent series in powers of the small parameter characterizing the smallness of the obstacle. The terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. De la Paz Méndez

We investigate a trapped surface and naked singularity in a $D$-dimensional Vaidya spacetime with a self-similar mass function. A trapped surface is defined as a closed spacelike $(D-2)$-surface which has negative both null expansions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Masahiro Shimano , Tomohiro Harada , Naoki Tsukamoto

We show that the maximal future development of asymptotically flat spherically symmetric black hole initial data for a self-gravitating nonlinear scalar field, also called a Higgs field, contains a connected, achronal marginally trapped…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-18 Catherine Williams

The hyperboloidal initial value problem is addressed in the context of Numerical Relativity, motivated by its use of hyperboloidal slices - smooth spacelike slices that reach future null infinity, the "place" in spacetime where radiation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-03 Alex Vañó-Viñuales

The vacuum Einstein equations in 5+1 dimensions are shown to admit solutions describing naked singularity formation in gravitational collapse from nonsingular asymptotically locally flat initial data that contain no trapped surface. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Xinliang An , Xuefeng Zhang

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

The paper studies the possible interplay between matter and geometry in scalar tensor theories of gravitation where the energy--momentum tensor is directly coupled with the Einstein tensor. After obtaining the scalar tensor representation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Mihai Marciu

In axial symmetry, there is a gauge for Einstein equations such that the total mass of the spacetime can be written as a conserved, positive definite, integral on the spacelike slices. This property is expected to play an important role in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-01 Sergio Dain , Martín Reiris

This paper is concerned with giving the proof that there is a general decoupling property of vacuum and nonvacuum gravitational field equations in Einstein gravity and $f(R,T)$-modifications. The constructions are possible in terms of…

General Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Sergiu I. Vacaru

It has been recently shown (Mitra,- astro-ph/9910408, astro-ph/0207056) that the timelike spherical collapse of a radiating, physical fluid in General Relativity, as seen by an interior co-moving observer at rest in the physical fluid, does…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Darryl Leiter , Stanley Robertson

Scalarized black holes (BH) have been shown to form dynamically in extended-scalar-tensor theories, either through spontaneous scalarization -- when the BH is unstable against linear perturbations -- or through a non-linear scalarization.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Zakaria Belkhadria , Alexandre M. Pombo

The entire classical cosmological history between two extreme de Sitter vacuum solutions is discussed based on Einstein's equations and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The initial non-singular de Sitter state is characterised by a very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 P. E. M. Almeida , R. C. Santos , J. A. S. Lima