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This work presents a classification of all smooth 't Hooft-Jackiw-Nohl-Rebbi instantons over Gibbons-Hawking spaces. That is, we find all smooth SU(2) Yang-Mills instantons over these spaces which arise by conformal rescalings of the metric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabor Etesi

In this work we present an approximate solution of the Einstein equations describing a global model for the gravitational field generated by a bounded, self-gravitating stationary and axisymmetric body rotating rigidly with constant angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Martin-Martin , A. Molina , E. Ruiz

The gravity action on the piecewise flat Riemannian manifold is formulated using the discrete set of the nondegenerate 4$\times$4 matrices on the 3-simplices as some connection type variables. These variables are the discrete counterpart of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 V. M. Khatsymovsky

This paper is the fourth in a series dedicated to the mathematically rigorous asymptotic analysis of gravitational radiation under astrophysically realistic setups. It provides an overview of the physical ideas involved in setting up the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Lionor Kehrberger

We give a simple and uniform construction of essentially all known deformation classes of gravitational instantons with ALF, ALG or ALH asymptotics and nonzero injectivity radius. We also construct new ALH Ricci flat metrics asymptotic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Olivier Biquard , Vincent Minerbe

We study fermionic instantons of the Gross-Neveu and the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa models. We derive solutions for both models and examine the corresponding actions at the fixed points. We further map the solutions on to the sphere and discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 A. Imaanpur , S. E. Sadati

We prove the instability of conformally K\"ahler, compact or ALF Einstein 4-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature which are not half conformally flat. This applies to all the known examples of gravitational instantons which are not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Olivier Biquard , Tristan Ozuch

In this paper we study the global existence and completeness of classical solutions of gravity coupled a scalar field system called Einstein-Klein-Gordon system in higher dimensions. We introduce a new ansatz function to reduce the problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-24 Mirda Prisma Wijayanto , Fiki Taufik Akbar , Bobby Eka Gunara

We present the Ernst potential and the line element of an exact solution of Einstein's vacuum field equations that contains as arbitrary parameters the total mass, the angular momentum, and the quadrupole moment of a rotating mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Hernando Quevedo

In this short note we prove that any complete four dimensional anti-self-dual (or self-dual) quasi-Einstein manifolds is either Einstein or locally conformally flat. This generalizes a recent result of X. Chen and Y. Wang.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Giovanni Catino

A new exact static interior solution of the Einstein equations is obtained for a gravitating ball filled with a Pascal perfect fluid . The solution is an extension of the well-known interior solution with a parabolic distribution of mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-17 Alexandre M. Baranov

We present an exact analytical solution of the Einstein equations with cosmological constant in a spatially flat Robertson-Walker metric. This is interpreted as an isotropic Lemaitre-type version of the cosmological Friedmann model.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Ion I. Cotaescu , Dumitru N. Vulcanov

The known calculations of the fermion condensate $<\bar{\psi}\psi>$ and the correlator $<\bar{\psi}\psi(x) ~\bar{\psi}\psi(0)>$ have been interpreted in terms of {\em localized} instanton solutions minimizing the {\em effective} action.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 A. V. Smilga

On an oriented, compact, connected, real four-dimensional manifold, $M$, we introduce a topological Lagrangian gauge field theory with a Bogomol'nyi structure that leads to non-singular, finite-Action, stable solutions to the variational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Temple-Raston

We study Ricci-flat perturbations of gravitational instantons of Petrov type D. Analogously to the Lorentzian case, the Weyl curvature scalars of extreme spin-weight satisfy a Riemannian version of the separable Teukolsky equation. As a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Gustav Nilsson

Uniqueness results for asymptotically locally flat and asymptotically flat $S^1$-symmetric gravitational instantons are proved using a divergence identity of the type used in uniqueness proofs for static black holes, combined with results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Steffen Aksteiner , Lars Andersson , Mattias Dahl , Gustav Nilsson , Walter Simon

In this paper we are looking for the exponential solutions (i.e. the solutions with the scale factors change exponentially over time) in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We argue that we found all possible non-constant-volume solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-19 Dmitry Chirkov , Sergey Pavluchenko , Alexey Toporensky

We study some exact and approximate solutions of Einstein's equations that can be used to describe the gravitational field of astrophysical compact objects in the limiting case of slow rotation and slight deformation. First, we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-08 Kuantay Boshkayev , Hernando Quevedo , Remo Ruffini

The lack of a well-established solution for the gravitational energy problem might be one of the reasons why a clear road to quantum gravity does not exist. In this paper, the gravitational energy is studied in detail with the help of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-25 J. B. Formiga , João Duarte

It is known that self-duality equations for multi-instantons on a line in four dimensions are equivalent to minimal surface equations in three dimensional Minkowski space. We extend this equivalence beyond the equations of motion and show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Bayram Tekin