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A collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system in three space dimensions. A fixed background of positive charge, which is independent of time and space, is assumed. The situation in which mobile negative ions balance the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Stephen Pankavich

We introduce a cosmological model in the framework of Generalised Massive Gravity. This theory is an extension of non-linear massive gravity with a broken translation symmetry in the St\"uckelberg space. In a recent work, we showed the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Michael Kenna-Allison , A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Kazuya Koyama

The dynamics of a self-gravitating ensemble of collisionless particles is modeled by the Nordstr\"om-Vlasov system in the framework of the Nordstr\"om scalar theory of gravitation. For this system in two space dimensions, integral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hayoung Lee

Dynamics and collapse of collisionless self-gravitating systems is described by the coupled collisionless Boltzmann and Poisson equations derived from $f(R)$-gravity in the weak field approximation. Specifically, we describe a system at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , I. De Martino , M. Formisano , S. D. Odintsov

Spontaneous collapse models are modifications of standard quantum mechanics in which a physical mechanism is responsible for the collapse of the wavefunction, thus providing a way to solve the so-called "measurement problem". The two most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-07 Nicolò Piccione

We study a phenomenological dark matter model described as a collisionless relativistic kinetic gas in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker universe. After normalization to the observed present-day dark matter abundance,…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Francisco X. Linares Cedeño , Ulises Nucamendi , Olivier Sarbach

In Newtonian gravity, a self-gravitating collisionless gas around a massive object such as a star or a planet is modeled via the Vlasov--Poisson system with an external Kepler potential. The presence of this attractive potential allows for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Sanchit Chaturvedi , Jonathan Luk

We present a scheme for numerical simulations of collisionless self-gravitating systems which directly integrates the Vlasov--Poisson equations in six-dimensional phase space. By the results from a suite of large-scale numerical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kohji Yoshikawa , Naoki Yoshida , Masayuki Umemura

Inspired by a similar analysis for the vacuum conformal Einstein field equations by Paetz [Ann. H. Poincar\'e 16, 2059 (2015)], in this article we show how to construct a system of quasilinear wave equations for the geometric fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-16 Diego A. Carranza , Adem E. Hursit , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

In the framework of the theory of scale relativity, we suggest a solution to the cosmological problem of the formation and evolution of gravitational structures on many scales. This approach is based on the giving up of the hypothesis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel da Rocha , Laurent Nottale

The relationship between the metric and nonrelativistic matter distribution depends on the theory of gravity and additional fields, providing a possible way of distinguishing competing theories. With the assumption that the geometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-28 Mustafa A. Amin , Robert V. Wagoner , Roger D. Blandford

General equations of the unified field theory, obtained using the curved and torsional space-time, are presented. They contain only independent geometrical parameters (metric and connections) of the metric-affine space, and describe the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Alex Karpelson

In this paper, we discuss the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of matter fields in the de Sitter universe. The energy-momentum tensor of the matter field is assumed to admit a wide variety including dust, perfect fluids with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Akriti Garg , Ayan Chatterjee

We revisit the integer lattice (IL) method to numerically solve the Vlasov-Poisson equations, and show that a slight variant of the method is a very easy, viable, and efficient numerical approach to study the dynamics of self-gravitating,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Philip Mocz , Sauro Succi

We develop a hybrid formalism suitable for modeling scalar field dark matter, in which the phase-space distribution associated to the real scalar field is modeled by statistical equal-time two-point functions and gravity is treated by two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Tomislav Prokopec , Pavel Friedrich

General equations of the unified field theory, obtained using the curved and torsional space-time, are presented. They contain only independent geometrical parameters (metric and connections) of the metric-affine space, and describe the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Alex Karpelson

The paper studies the possible interplay between matter and geometry in scalar tensor theories of gravitation where the energy--momentum tensor is directly coupled with the Einstein tensor. After obtaining the scalar tensor representation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Mihai Marciu

The motion of a collisionless plasma is described by the Vlasov-Poisson system, or in the presence of large velocities, the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system. Both systems are considered in one space and one momentum dimension, with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Stephen Pankavich , Robert Glassey , Jack Schaeffer

A gravitational field model based on two symmetric tensors, $g_{\mu \nu}$ and $\tilde{g}_{\mu \nu}$, is presented. In this model, new matter fields are added to the original matter fields, motivated by an additional symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-06 Jorge Alfaro , Pablo González

The self-gravitating systems are formed by particles interacting through gravity. They describe structure formation in the universe. As a consequence of the long range interaction of gravity, they are inhomogeneous even at thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Siebert