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We prove existence of a countable family of spherically symmetric self-similar wave maps from 3+1 Minkowski spacetime into the 3-sphere. These maps can be viewed as excitations of the ground state wave map found previously by Shatah. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Piotr Bizoń

The variational field equations of Brans-Dicke scalar-tensor theory of gravitation are given in a non-Riemannian setting in the language of exterior differential forms over 4-dimensional spacetime. The class of pp-wave metrics together with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-27 Tekin Dereli , Yorgo Senikoglu

In this paper, we reformulate the semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation in the presence of electromagnetic field by the Gaussian wave packets transform. With this approach, the highly oscillatory Schr\"odinger equation is equivalently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Zhennan Zhou , Giovanni Russo

It is investigated the gravitational waves phenomena in the geometric scalar theory of gravity (GSG), a class of theories such that gravity is described by a single scalar field. The associated physical metric describing the spacetime is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-16 Júnior Diniz Toniato

We investigate the stability and long-term behavior of spatially periodic plane waves in the complex Klein-Gordon equation under localized perturbations. Such perturbations render the wave neither localized nor periodic, placing its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Emile Bukieda , Louis Garénaux , Björn de Rijk

We present a numerical study to investigate the conditioning of the plane wave discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the Helmholtz problem. We provide empirical evidence that the spectral condition number of the plane wave basis on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Scott Congreve , Joscha Gedicke , Ilaria Perugia

The known canonical quantum theory of a spherically symmetric pure (Schwarzschild) gravitational system describes isolated black holes by plane waves exp(-iMc^2\tau/\hbar) with respect to their continuous masses M and the proper time \tau…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 H. A. Kastrup

The scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) is a useful tool to probe the physics in the early universe. To study inflationary models with this tool, we need to know how the waveform of SIGWs is related to the shape of the scalar power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-01 Fengge Zhang , Arshad Ali , Yungui Gong , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu

The Gauss map of non-degenerate surfaces in the three-dimensional Minkowski space are viewed as dynamical fields of the two-dimensional O(2,1) Nonlinear Sigma Model. In this setting, the moduli space of solutions with rotational symmetry is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Manuel Barros , Magdalena Caballero , Miguel Ortega

The fluctuations of scalar fields, that are invariant under rotations of the worldvolume, in Euclidian signature, can be described by a system of Langevin equations. These equations can be understood as defining a change of variables in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-30 Stam Nicolis

We consider the Cauchy problem with smooth and compactly supported initial data for the wave equation in a general class of spherically symmetric geometries which are globally smooth and asymptotically flat. Under certain mild conditions on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-23 Matthew P. Masarik

A phenomenological model of an ideal fluid with a scalar charge is formulated, on the basis of which a model with a neutral fluid and a vacuum-field model with rules of transition between them are constructed. A qualitative analysis of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-21 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

Set of analytic solutions of the geodesic equation in a spherical conformal spacetime is presented. Solutions of this geodesics can be expressed in terms of the Weierstrass {\wp} function and the Kleinian {\sigma} function. Using conserved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-07 Bahareh Hoseini , Reza Saffari , Saheb Soroushfar

Generalised Hagedorn wave packets appear as exact solutions of Schr\"odinger equations with quadratic, possibly complex, potential, and are given by a polynomial times a Gaussian. We show that the Wigner transform of generalised Hagedorn…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Helge Dietert , Johannes Keller , Stephanie Troppmann

Let K be a non-Archimedean local field with the normalized absolute value $|\cdot |$. It is shown that a ``plane wave'' $f(t+\omega_1 x_1+... +\omega_nx_n)$, where f is a Bruhat-Schwartz complex-valued test function on K, $(t,x_1,...,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-12-06 Anatoly N. Kochubei

We develop a correspondence between the orbits of the group of linear symplectomorphisms of a real finite dimensional symplectic vector space in the complex Lagrangian Grassmannian and the Grassmannians of linear subspaces of the real…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Hyunmoon Kim

The classical dynamics and the construction of quantum states in a plane wave curved spacetime are examined, paying particular attention to the similarities with the case of an electromagnetic plane wave in flat spacetime. A natural map…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-28 Giulio Audagnotto , Antonino Di Piazza

We analyze the d'Alembert equation in the Goedel-type spacetimes with spherical and Lobachevsky sections (with sufficiently rapid rotation). By separating the $t$ and $x_3$ dependence we reduce the problem to a group-theoretical one. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-25 P. Marecki

Three dimensional space is said to be spherically symmetric if it admits SO(3) as the group of isometries. Under this symmetry condition, the Einsteins Field equations for vacuum, yields the Schwarzschild Metric as the unique solution,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Avijit Mukherjee , Subham B Roy

A smooth cuboid can be identified with a $3\times 3$ matrix of linear forms, with coefficients in a field $K$, whose determinant describes a smooth cubic in the projective plane. To each such matrix one can associate a group scheme over…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Joshua Maglione , Mima Stanojkovski