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Schwarzschild's 'interior solution' is a space-time metric that satisfies Einstein's gravitational field equations with a source term that Einstein created on the basis of an unjustified identification of the conceptually distinct notions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-18 Homer G. Ellis

We present a novel approach for calculating the gravitational self-force (GSF) in the Lorenz gauge, employing hyperboloidal slicing and spectral methods. Our method builds on the previous work that applied hyperboloidal surfaces and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Benjamin Leather

We derive a formalism for solving the Lorenz gauge equations for metric perturbations of Kerr spacetime sourced by an arbitrary stress-energy tensor. The metric perturbation is obtained as a sum of differential operators acting on a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Barry Wardell , Chris Kavanagh , Sam R. Dolan

During the past century, there has been considerable discussion and analysis of the motion of a point charge, taking into account "self-force" effects due to the particle's own electromagnetic field. We analyze the issue of "particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-12 Samuel E. Gralla , Abraham I. Harte , Robert M. Wald

The role of the measurement process in resolving the gauge ambiguity of the effective gravitational potential is reexamined. The motion of a classical point-like particle in the field of an arbitrary linear source, and in the field of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Taras S. Gribouk , Kirill A. Kazakov , Petr I. Pronin

We search for self-gravitating oscillating field lumps (pulsons) in the scalar model with logarithmic potential. With the use of a Krylov-Bogoliubov-type asymptotic expansion in the gravitational constant, the pulson solutions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-28 Vladimir A. Koutvitsky , Eugene M. Maslov

This paper addresses the problem of recovering the spatial profile of the source in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation from regional observation data at fixed times. We establish two types of sufficient measurements for the unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Xing Cheng , Zhiyuan Li , Mengmeng Zhang , Xuezhao Zhang

Certain approaches to quantum gravity and classical modified gravity theories result in effective field equations in which the original source is substituted by an effective one. In these cases, the occurrence of regular spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-25 Breno L. Giacchini , Tibério de Paula Netto

In this article I present a simple Newtonian heuristic for deriving a weak-field approximation for the spacetime geometry of a point particle. The heuristic is based on Newtonian gravity, the notion of local inertial frames [the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Matt Visser

We construct and analyze a class of static spherically symmetric spacetimes in general relativity sourced exclusively by classical electrostatic configurations. Using a spherically symmetric Painlev\'e-Gullstrand-like metric with unit lapse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 G. Abellán , N. Bolívar , I. Vasilev

Direct observations of compact objects, in the form of radiation spectra, gravitational waves from VIRGO/LIGO, and forthcoming direct imaging, are currently one of the primary source of information on the physics of plasmas in extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 Fabio Bacchini , Bart Ripperda , Oliver Porth , Lorenzo Sironi

Effective field theory methods allow us to modify general relativity through higher-curvature corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action, while preserving Lorentz invariance and the number of gravitational degrees of freedom. We here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-18 Haoyang Liu , Nicolás Yunes

A stress-energy tensor for linear gravity adapted to the harmonic gauge was recently proposed by Butcher, Hobson and Lasenby. By removing gauge constraints and imposing full metrical GR, we find a natural generalisation to the pseudotensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-06 William E V Barker , Anthony N Lasenby , Michael P Hobson , William J Handley

A new approximation method for inverting the Poisson's equation is presented for a continuously distributed and finite-sized source in an unbound domain. The advantage of this image multipole method arises from its ability to place the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 James H. H. Chan , Tzihong Chiueh

Partial differential equations with distributional sources---in particular, involving (derivatives of) delta distributions---have become increasingly ubiquitous in numerous areas of physics and applied mathematics. It is often of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Marius Oltean , Carlos F. Sopuerta , Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

We discuss a practical method to compute the self-force on a particle moving through a curved spacetime. This method involves two expansions to calculate the self-force, one arising from the particle's immediate past and the other from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Warren G. Anderson , Alan G. Wiseman

We consider the retarded solution to the scalar, electromagnetic, and linearized gravitational field equations in Minkowski spacetime, with source given by a particle moving on a null geodesic. In the scalar case and in the Lorenz gauge in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Alexander Tolish , Robert M. Wald

The description of a point mass in general relativity (GR) is given in the framework of the field formulation of GR where all the dynamical fields, including the gravitational field, are considered in a fixed background spacetime. With the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. N. Petrov

An algorithm is presented that incorporates the tensor form of Maxwell's equations in a general relativistic electromagnetic particle-in-cell code. The code simplifies to Schwartzschild space-time for a non-spinning central mass. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Watson , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa

We consider the discretization of electromagnetic wave propagation problems by a discontinuous Galerkin Method based on Trefftz polynomials. This method fits into an abstract framework for space-time discontinuous Galerkin methods for which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Herbert Egger , Fritz Kretzschmar , Sascha M. Schnepp , Thomas Weiland