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In general relativity, the Einstein equations provide spherically symmetric static spacetimes with dynamics defined as an evolution along the radial coordinate $r$. The geometrical sector becomes a one-dimensional mechanical system, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Etera R. Livine , Yuki Yokokura

Sphere fitting is a common problem in almost all science and engineering disciplines. Most of methods available are iterative in behavior. This involves fitting of the parameters in a least square sense or in a geometric sense. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Sumith YD

Spherical harmonics provide a smooth, orthogonal, and symmetry-adapted basis to expand functions on a sphere, and they are used routinely in physical and theoretical chemistry as well as in different fields of science and technology, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Filippo Bigi , Guillaume Fraux , Nicholas J. Browning , Michele Ceriotti

After dimensional reduction the stationary spherically symmetric sector of Einstein's gravity is identified with an SL(2,R)/SO(2) Sigma model coupled to a one dimensional gravitational remnant. The space of classical solutions consists of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Helia Hollmann

For specifically coupled values of the quadratic gravity parameters, we present a fully explicit static spherically symmetric solution. It contains the central singularity surrounded by the black-hole or the cosmological horizon for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Simon Knoska , David Kofron , Robert Svarc

We use numerical integration to solve the field equations of conformal gravity, assuming a metric that is static and spherically symmetric. Our solution is an extension of that found by Mannheim and Kazanas; it indicates, as expected, that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-11 Peter R. Phillips

In this work, we investigate the construction of spherically symmetric solutions within the framework of modified teleparallel gravity, focusing in particular on $f({\cal T})$ theory, where ${\cal T}$ represents the torsion scalar.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-08 G. G. L. Nashed , A. Eid

We consider the problem of optimally stopping a general one-dimensional stochastic differential equation (SDE) with generalised drift over an infinite time horizon. First, we derive a complete characterisation of the solution to this…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Mihail Zervos , Neofytos Rodosthenous , Pui Chan Lon , Thomas Bernhardt

Nonmagnetic and spherically symmetric dielectric material media are investigated in their generality as analogue models, in the domains of geometrical optics, for a few relevant static and spherically symmetric solutions of gravitation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-29 Eduardo Bittencourt , Diego Renan Da Silva , Érico Goulart , Renato Klippert

A vacuum solution of the Einstein gravitational field equation is given that follows from a general ansatz but fails to follow from it if a certain symmetric matrix is assumed to be in diagonal form from the beginning.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 F. Canfora , H. -J. Schmidt

We present a generic solution to the fundamental problem of how to connect two points in a plane by a smooth curve that goes through these points with a given slope. The smoothness of any curve depends both on its curvature and its length.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alex Alon , Sven Bergmann

We develop a new covariant formalism to treat spherically symmetric spacetimes in metric} f(R) theories of gravity. Using this formalism we derive the general equations for a static and spherically symmetric metric in a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-22 Anne Marie Nzioki , Sante Carloni , Rituparno Goswami , Peter K. S. Dunsby

In this talk we show that any spherically symmetric spacetime admits locally a maximal spacelike slicing. The above condition is reduced to solve a decoupled system of first order quasi-linear partial differential equations. The solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Isabel Cordero-Carrión , José María Ibáñez , Juan Antonio Morales-Lladosa

We consider several geometric inequalities in general relativity involving mass, area, charge, and angular momentum for asymptotically hyperboloidal initial data. We show how to reduce each one to the known maximal (or time symmetric) case…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 Ye Sle Cha , Marcus Khuri , Anna Sakovich

Approximate symmetries of geodesic equations on 2-spheres are studied. These are the symmetries of the perturbed geodesic equations which represent approximate path of a particle rather than exact path. After giving the exact symmetries of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 K. Saifullah , K. Usman

The Einstein action for the gravitational field has some properties which make of it, after quantization, a rare prototype of systems with quantum configurations that do not have a classical analogue. Assuming spherical symmetry in order to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-23 G. Modanese

We present the proper co-frame and its corresponding (diagonal) co-frame/spin connection pair for spherically symmetric geometries which can be used as an initial ansatz in any theory of teleparallel gravity. The Lorentz transformation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Robert J. van den Hoogen , Hudson X. Forance

In the articles [1] and [2] of D. Finch, M. Haltmeier, S. Patch and D. Rakesh inversion formulas were found in any dimension $n\geq2$ for recovering a smooth function with compact support in the unit ball from spherical means centered on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-29 Yehonatan Salman

It is shown that an arbitrary static, spherically symmetric metric can be presented as an exact solution of a scalar-tensor theory (STT) of gravity with certain nonminimal coupling function $f(\phi)$ and potential $U(\phi)$. The scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Kirill A. Bronnikov , Kodir Badalov , Rustam Ibadov

Hermite polynomials and functions have extensive applications in scientific and engineering problems. Although it is recognized that employing the scaled Hermite functions rather than the standard ones can remarkably enhance the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Hao Hu , Haijun Yu