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Null shells are a useful geometric construction to study the propagation of infinitesimally thin concentrations of massless particles or impulsive waves. After recalling the necessary and sufficient conditions obtained in [28] that allow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Miguel Manzano , Marc Mars

We employ a late-time expansion to study the interior of rotating black holes coupled to a massless scalar field in asymptotically flat spacetime. We find that decaying fluxes of scalar radiation into the black hole necessitate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-14 Paul M. Chesler

Departure from idealised plane waves gives rise to intricate geometric structures in wave fields. One such structure is the polarisation singularity, which emerges when multiple monochromatic waves interfere (such as would be the case for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Claire Rigouzzo , Sebastian Golat , Alex J. Vernon , Kyan Louisia , Eugene Lim , Francisco J. Rodriguez-Fortuno

In this work, we have investigated the outcome of gravitational collapse in Husain space-time in the presence of electro-magnetic and a scalar field with potential. In order to study the nature of the singularity, global behavior of radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-12 Ujjal Debnath , Prabir Rudra , Ritabrata Biswas

Inhomogeneous cosmological models have recently become a very interesting alternative to standard cosmology. This is because these models are able to fit cosmological observations without the need for dark energy. However, due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Krzysztof Bolejko , Paul Lasky

Generalizing earlier results of Joshi and Dwivedi (Commun. Math. Phys. 146, 333 (1992); Lett. Math. Phys. 27, 235 (1993)), we analyze here the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a matter cloud with a general form of matter for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 I. H. Dwivedi , P. S. Joshi

In an earlier paper, we showed that the causal boundary of any homogeneous plane wave satisfying the null convergence condition consists of a single null curve. In Einstein-Hilbert gravity, this would include any homogeneous plane wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Donald Marolf , Simon F. Ross

This paper shows finite time singularity formation for the Muskat problem in a stable regime. The framework we found is with a dry region, where the density and the viscosity are set equal to $0$ (the gradient of the pressure is equal to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Angel Castro , Diego Cordoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo

We analyze condensation behaviors of neutral scalar fields outside horizonless reflecting stars in the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar gravity. It was known that minimally coupled neutral scalar fields cannot exist outside horizonless reflecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-27 Yan Peng

Physics beyond the Standard Model may give rise to first-order phase transitions proceeding via the nucleation of vacuum bubbles, whose subsequent collisions generate gravitational waves (GWs). Their detection would open the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Katarina Trailović

The dynamics of large eddies in the atmosphere and oceans is described by the surface quasi geostrophic equation, which is reminiscent of the Euler equations. Thermal fronts build up rapidly. Two different numerical methods combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Peter Constantin , Qing Nie , Norbert Schorghofer

Naked singularities form during the gravitational collapse of inhomogeneous matter clouds. The final nature of the singularity depends on the initial conditions of the matter properties and types of matter profiles. These naked…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Siddharth Madan , Parth Bambhaniya

Einstein's equations are known to lead to the formation of black holes and spacetime singularities. This appears to be a manifestation of the mathematical phenomenon of finite-time blowup: a formation of singularities from regular initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Amos Ori , Dan Gorbonos

We consider here the existence and structure of trapped surfaces, horizons and singularities in spherically symmetric static massless scalar field spacetimes. Earlier studies have shown that there exists no event horizon in such spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-21 Swastik Bhattacharya , Pankaj S. Joshi

Interest in cosmological singularities has remarkably grown in recent times, particularly on future singularities with the discovery of late-time acceleration of the universe and dark energy. While such explorations have previously been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Oem Trivedi , Maxim Khlopov

The collapse scenario of a scalar field along with a perfect fluid distribution is investigated for a conformally flat spacetime. The theorem for the integrability of an anharmonic oscillator has been utilized. For a pure power law…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Soumya Chakrabarti , Narayan Banerjee

When two non-interacting plane impulsive gravitational waves undergo a head-on collision, the vacuum interaction region between the waves after the collision contains backscattered gravitational radiation from both waves. The two systems of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Barrabès , G. F. Bressange , P. A. Hogan

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity are natural phenomenological alternatives to General Relativity, where the gravitational interaction is mediated by a scalar degree of freedom, besides the usual tensor gravitons. In regions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-29 Enrico Barausse , Carlos Palenzuela , Marcelo Ponce , Luis Lehner

The stability of cosmological event and Cauchy horizons of spacetimes associated with plane symmetric domain walls are studied. It is found that both horizons are not stable against perturbations of null fluids and massless scalar fields;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Anzhong Wang , Patricio S. Letelier

It has long been known that every quasi-homogeneous normal complex surface singularity with Q-homology sphere link has universal abelian cover a Brieskorn complete intersection singularity. We describe a broad generalization: First, one has…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Walter D Neumann , Jonathan Wahl