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We study polarization dependent photon propagation in static, spherically symmetric spacetimes permeated by strong magnetic fields, with the aim of quantifying how finite emission and detection radii modify vacuum birefringence signals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Ali Övgün , Reggie C. Pantig

The spin-curvature coupling as captured by the so-called Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations is the leading order effect of the finite size of a rapidly rotating compact astrophysical object moving in a curved background. It is also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-01 Vojtěch Witzany , Jan Steinhoff , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

By using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, the bending angle of light in a static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime has been recently discussed, especially by taking account of the finite distance from a lens object to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-29 Toshiaki Ono , Asahi Ishihara , Hideki Asada

The interaction between spin and gravitational waves causes spinning bodies to deviate from their geodesics. In this work, we obtain the analytic solution of the Mathisson--Papapetrou--Dixon equations at linear order in the spin for plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Ke Wang

Based on the Jacobi metric method, this paper studies the deflection of a charged massive particle by a novel four-dimensional charged Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black hole. We focus on the weak field approximation and consider the deflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Zonghai Li , Yujie Duan , Junji Jia

We investigate the geodesics of a Schwarzschild spacetime embedded in an isotropic expanding cosmological background (McVittie metric). We focus on bound particle geodesics in a background including matter and phantom dark energy with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Ioannis Antoniou , Leandros Perivolaropoulos

We investigate the effect of higher-order curvature terms, specifically Gauss-Bonnet terms, on spacetime singularities in five dimensions. For FLRW cosmologies, we demonstrate that Gauss-Bonnet terms can replace the Big Bang/Crunch with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Tariq Allaithy , Adel Awad , Mohamed Hany Radwan , Mohsen Zahran

Rapidly rotating bodies moving in curved space-time experience the so-called spin-curvature force, which becomes important for the motion of compact objects in gravitational-wave inspirals. As a first approximation, this effect is captured…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Vojtěch Witzany , Gabriel Andres Piovano

Near a gravitating compact object, massive particles traveling along timelike geodesics are gravitationally deflected similarly to light. In this paper, we study the deflection angles of these particles in the strong deflection limit. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Fabiano Feleppa , Valerio Bozza , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

This paper investigates charged particle deflection in a Kerr spacetime background with a dipole magnetic field, focusing on the equatorial plane and employing the weak field approximation. We employ the Jacobi-Randers metric to unify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-04 Zonghai Li , Junji Jia

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we extend the results presented in [Gabriel Crisnejo and Emanuel Gallo, Phys.Rev.D 97, 124016 (2018)] to stationary spacetimes. Specifically, we show that the Gauss-Bonnet theorem can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-27 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo , Kimet Jusufi

It is shown that the free motion of massive particles moving in static spacetimes are given by the geodesics of an energy-dependent Riemannian metric on the spatial sections analogous to Jacobi's metric in classical dynamics. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 G. W. Gibbons

We present here the linear regime of the Einstein's field equations in the characteristic formulation. Through a simple decomposition of the metric variables in spin-weighted spherical harmonics, the field equations are expressed as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-18 Carlos Eduardo Cedeño Montaña

Is it possible to find imprints of a black hole ringdown through gravitational lensing? To address this question, we formulate an analytic description of weak-field and strong-deflection lensing of light in a time-dependent, perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Reggie C. Pantig

On a Riemannian manifold, lower Ricci curvature bounds are known to be characterized by geodesic convexity properties of various entropies with respect to the Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein square distance from optimal transportation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J McCann

The Gibbons-Werner (GW) method is a powerful approach in studying the gravitational deflection of particles moving in curved spacetimes. The application of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem (GBT) to integral regions constructed in a two-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Yang Huang , Zhoujian Cao , Zhenyan Lu

Self-accelerating backgrounds in massive gravity provide an arena to explore the Cauchy problem for derivatively coupled fields that obey complex constraints which reduce the phase space degrees of freedom. We present here an algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Hayato Motohashi

In this article we develop some new existence results for the Einstein constraint equations using the Lichnerowicz-York conformal rescaling method. The mean extrinsic curvature is taken to be an arbitrary smooth function without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-13 M. Holst , G. Nagy , G. Tsogtgerel

In quantum theory on curved backgrounds, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is usually discussed in terms of ensemble variances and flat-space commutators. Here we take a different, preparation-based viewpoint tailored to sharp position…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Thomas Schürmann

We consider the motion of spinning test particles with nonzero rest mass in the "pole-dipole" approximation, as described by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations, and examine its properties in dependence on the spin supplementary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-25 O. Semerák , M. Šrámek