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Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to free, massive, classical fundamental fields admits particle-like solutions. These are asymptotically flat, everywhere non-singular configurations that realise Wheeler's concept of a geon: a localised…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Herdeiro , I. Perapechka , E. Radu , Ya. Shnir

We consider a spherically symmetric, static system of a Dirac particle interacting with classical gravity and an SU(2) Yang-Mills field. The corresponding Einstein-Dirac-Yang/Mills equations are derived. Using numerical methods, we find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Felix Finster , Joel Smoller , Shing-Tung Yau

Einstein-Dirac equations for two spinor fields are considered. It is shown that in this case one can obtain self-consistent equations set for these gravitating spinors. The key idea to obtain Einstein-Dirac equations is to use special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-18 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev

We make use of an improved existence result for the characteristic initial value problem for the conformal Einstein equations to show that given initial data on two null hypersurfaces $\mathcal{N}_\star$ and $\mathcal{N}'_\star$ such that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-19 Peng Zhao , David Hilditch , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

We study the semiclassical Einstein field equations with a Klein-Gordon field in ultrastatic and static spacetimes. In both cases, the equations for the spacetime metric become constraint equations. In the ultrastatic case, the Hadamard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-01 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry

Consider the characteristic initial value problem for the Einstein vacuum equations without any symmetry assumptions. Impose a sequence of data on two intersecting null hypersurfaces, each of which is foliated by spacelike $2$-spheres.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Jonathan Luk , Igor Rodnianski

The characteristic initial boundary problem is discussed in spherical symmetry for the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field equations. It is formulated for an affine-null metric and the resulting field equations are cast into a hierarchical system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Thomas Mädler , Radouane Gannouji , Emanuel Gallo

The Dirac equation for a massive spin-1/2 field in a central potential V in three dimensions is studied without fixing a priori the functional form of V. The second-order equations for the radial parts of the spinor wave function are shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Giampiero Esposito , Pietro Santorelli

We perform the Dirac quantization of RS fields interacting with a spinor and the first derivative of a pseudoscalar field. We achieve the calculations for two forms of this interaction: first we review the conventional coupling of lowest…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-31 D. Badagnani , A. Mariano , C. Barbero

We consider for j=1/2, 3/2,... a spherically symmetric, static system of (2j+1) Dirac particles, each having total angular momentum j. The Dirac particles interact via a classical gravitational and electromagnetic field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Felix Finster , Joel Smoller , Shing-Tung Yau

We investigate the effective Dirac equation, corrected by merging two scenarios that are expected to emerge towards the quantum gravity scale. Namely, the existence of a minimal length, implemented by the generalized uncertainty principle,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-18 J. M. Hoff da Silva , D. Beghetto , R. T. Cavalcanti , R. da Rocha

The Dirac equation is a paradigmatic model that describes a range of intriguing properties of relativistic spin-1/2 particles, from the existence of antiparticles to Klein tunneling. However, the Dirac-like equations have found application…

In this paper, we initiate the study of the asymptotically AdS initial-boundary value problem for the Einstein-massless Vlasov system with $\Lambda<0$ in spherical symmetry. We will establish the existence and uniqueness of a maximal future…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Georgios Moschidis

We study the Einstein-Dirac equation as well as the weak Killing equation on Riemannian spin manifolds with codimension one foliation. We prove that, for any manifold $M^n$ admitting real Killing spinors (resp. parallel spinors), there…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Eui Chul Kim

We show that the conditions which originate the spin and pseudospin symmetries in the Dirac equation are the same that produce equivalent energy spectra of relativistic spin-1/2 and spin-0 particles in the presence of vector and scalar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Alberto , A. S. de Castro , M. Malheiro

The Dirac equation is a cornerstone in the history of physics, merging successfully quantum mechanics with special relativity, providing a natural description of the electron spin and predicting the existence of anti-matter. Furthermore, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-08 R. Gerritsma , G. Kirchmair , F. Zähringer , E. Solano , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

The system describing a single Dirac electron field coupled with classically moving point nuclei is presented and studied. The model is a semi-relativistic extension of corresponding time-dependent one-body Hartree-Fock equation coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Federico Cacciafesta , Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni , Diego Noja

We study a complex Dirac field in the chiral representation minimally coupled to gravity in 3+1 dimensions in the context of Einstein-Cartan theory. Generically the matter content gravitates in two different ways: On the one hand, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Adolfo Toloza

Spin networks in loop quantum gravity provide a kinematical picture of quantum geometry but lack a natural mechanism for dynamical Dirac-type evolution, while the Wheeler--DeWitt equation typically enters only as an imposed constraint. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Partha Nandi , Partha Ghose , Francesco Petruccione

We first study the linear eigenvalue problem for a planar Dirac system in the open half-line and describe the nodal properties of its solution by means of the rotation number. We then give a global bifurcation result for a planar nonlinear…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Anna Capietto , Walter Dambrosio , Duccio Papini