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We derive the gravitational dynamics of the tensorial geometry which underlies the most general linear theory of electrodynamics that features weak birefringence in vacuo. This derivation is performed by way of gravitational closure, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-15 Jonas Schneider , Frederic P. Schuller , Nadine Stritzelberger , Florian Wolz

This study examines the gravitational and thermodynamic properties of static, spherically symmetric black holes within cosmic voids -- vast underdense regions of the universe. By deriving a novel solution based on a universal density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Francisco Bento Lustosa , Milko Estrada , Marcony S. Cunha , Celio R. Muniz

Motivated by quantum mechanical considerations we earlier suggested an alternative action for discretised quantum gravity which has a dimension of length. It is the so called "linear" action. The proposed action is a "square root" of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-11 George Savvidy

An attempt to evade the strict uniqueness of consistent interactions involving spin-2 particles is made by modifying the Noether procedure from the outset. A vector field is introduced, coupled to a graviton already at the level of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 Carlo Marzo

Previous work on black hole partition functions and entanglement entropy suggests the existence of "edge" degrees of freedom living on the (stretched) horizon. We identify a local and "shrinkable" boundary condition on the stretched horizon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Adam Ball , Y. T. Albert Law , Gabriel Wong

We derive an effective Hamiltonian for a quantum system constrained to a submanifold (the constraint manifold) of configuration space (the ambient space) by an infinite restoring force. We pay special attention to how this Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kevin A. Mitchell

An action principle for spacetimes with the topology of an Euclidean black-hole is given. The gravitational field is described by the ordinary volume degrees of freedom plus additional surface fields at the horizon. The surface degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-30 Claudio Teitelboim

We present a theory of tunnelling geometries originating from the no-boundary quantum state of Hartle and Hawking. We reformulate the no-boundary wavefunction in the representation of true physical variables and calculate it in the one-loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

Einstenian cubic gravity (ECG) is a modified theory of gravity constructed with cubic contractions of the curvature tensor. This theory has the remarkable feature of having the same two propagating degrees of freedom of Einstein gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 L. A. Lessa , R. V. Maluf , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

Smolin's generally covariant $G_{\mathrm{Newton}}\rightarrow0$ limit of 4d Euclidean gravity is a useful toy model for the study of the constraint algebra in Loop Quantum Gravity. In particular, the commutator between its Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Madhavan Varadarajan

Certain closed-universe big-bang/big-crunch cosmological spacetimes may be obtained by analytic continuation from asymptotically AdS Euclidean wormholes, as emphasized by Maldacena and Maoz. We investigate how these Euclidean wormhole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Mark Van Raamsdonk

In this paper we calculate the effect of the inclusion of exotic smooth structures on typical observables in Euclidean quantum gravity. We do this in the semiclassical regime for several gravitational free-field actions and find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-13 Christopher L Duston

We study the properties of the Newtonian gravitational potential in a spherical Universe for different topologies. For this, we use the non-Euclidean Newtonian theory developed in Vigneron [2022, Class. & Quantum Gravity, 39, 155006]…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-04 Quentin Vigneron , Boudewijn F. Roukema

After defining conformal Galilean-type algebras for arbitrary dynamical exponent $z$ we consider the particular cases of the conformal Galilei algebra (CGA) and the Schr\"odinger Lie algebra (sch). Galilei massless particles moving with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-11 Peter C. Stichel

We extend the geometrical theory presented in [5] for collisional and frictional particle abrasion to include an independent physical equation for the evolution of mass and volume. We introduce volume weight functions as multipliers of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-07-23 G. Domokos , G. W. Gibbons

The presented paper is a review of papers on the microcosm physics geometrization in the last twenty years. These papers develop a new direction of the microcosm physics. It is so-called geometric paradigm, which is alternative to the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-28 Yuri A. Rylov

In this study, we investigate the stability and solid fraction of columns comprised of highly non-convex particles. These particles are constructed by extruding arms onto the faces of Platonic solids, a configuration we term \emph{Platonic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-03 David Aponte , Jonathan Barés , Mathieu Renouf , Émilien Azéma , and Nicolas Estrada

The dynamics of dense finite-size particles in vertical channel flows of Newtonian and viscoelastic carrier fluids are examined using particle resolved simulations. Comparison to neutrally buoyant particles in the same configuration…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-26 Amir Esteghamatian , Tamer A. Zaki

This research provides algorithms and numerical methods to geometrically control the magnitude of the internal and external forces in the reciprocal diagrams of 3D/Polyhedral Graphic statics (3DGS). In 3DGS, the form of the structure and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Masoud Akbarzadeh , Marton Hablicsek

We construct a family of closeness functions on the space of finite volume Lorentzian geometries using the abundance of discrete intervals in the underlying random causal sets. Although strictly weaker than a Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Sumati Surya