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A new gauge theory of gravity is presented. The theory is constructed in a flat background spacetime and employs gauge fields to ensure that all relations between physical quantities are independent of the positions and orientations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony Lasenby , Chris Doran , Stephen Gull

We prove that the Einstein equations can be solved in a very general form for arbitrary spacetime dimensions and various types of vacuum and non-vacuum cases following a geometric method of anholonomic frame deformations for constructing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Sergiu I. Vacaru

Minkowski diagrams in 1+1 dimensional flat space-time are given a strictly geometric derivation, directly from two gedanken experiments incorporating the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light and the principle of (special)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 N. David Mermin

We hereby show that the Kasner spacetime turns out to be singularity-free in Einstein's conformal gravity in vacuum or in presence of matter. Such a statement is based on the regularity of the curvature invariants and on the geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-24 Leonardo Modesto , Hui-Yu Zhu , Jun-Yan Zhang

We give a short proof of the existence of a small piece of null infinity for $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetimes evolving from asymptotically flat initial data as solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations. We introduce a modification of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Peter Hintz

We show that the structure of the Lorentz group in four dimensions is such that unimodular (trace-free) gravity can be consistently represented as an algebraic condition on the symmetric product space of 2-forms. This condition states that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 Jack C. M. Hughes , Fedor V. Kusmartsev

We set up an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory in four dimensions, based on the recent formulation of pure gravity with extra dimensions of vanishing metrical length [1]. In absence of torsion, the effective field equations depend only on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-11 Sandipan Sengupta

A solution of the sourceless Einstein's equation with an infinite value for the cosmological constant \Lambda is discussed by using Inonu-Wigner contractions of the de Sitter groups and spaces. When \Lambda --> infinity, spacetime becomes a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Aldrovandi , A. L. Barbosa , M. Calcada , J. G. Pereira

In this paper we prove the nonlinear stability of Minkowski space-time with a translation Killing field. In the presence of such a symmetry, the 3 + 1 vacuum Einstein equations reduce to the 2 + 1 Einstein equations with a scalar field. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Cécile Huneau

The field equations of noncommutative gravity can be obtained by replacing all exterior products by twist-deformed exterior products in the action functional of general relativity, and are here studied by requiring that the torsion 2-form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Elisabetta Di Grezia , Giampiero Esposito , Patrizia Vitale

A formalism for analyzing the complete set of field equations describing Macroscopic Gravity is presented. Using this formalism, a cosmological solution to the Macroscopic Gravity equations is determined. It is found that if a particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 R. J. van den Hoogen

We review some recent developments in the conformal gravity theory that has been advanced as a candidate alternative to standard Einstein gravity. As a quantum theory the conformal theory is both renormalizable and unitary, with unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Philip D. Mannheim

In this paper, we sketch the proof of the extension of the stability theorem of the Minkowski space in General Relativity done explicitly in previous work by the present author. We discuss solutions of the Einstein vacuum (EV) equations. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-10 Lydia Bieri

Treating the gravitational force on the same footing as the electroweak and strong forces, we present a quantum field theory of gravity based on spin and scaling gauge symmetries. A biframe spacetime is initiated to describe such a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Yue-Liang Wu

We propose uncertainty relations for the different coordinates of spacetime events, motivated by Heisenberg's principle and by Einstein's theory of classical gravity. A model of Quantum Spacetime is then discussed where the commutation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Sergio Doplicher , Klaus Fredenhagen , John E. Roberts

It is first argued that radiation by a uniformly accelerated charge in flat space-time indicates the need for a unified geometric theory of gravity and electromagnetism. Such a theory, based on a metric-affine $U_4$ manifold, is constructed…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Partha Ghose

Newtonian gravity arises as the nonrelativistic, static, weak-field limit of some Lorentzian spacetime geometry solving the generally covariant Einstein equations for a given matter field configuration. Spacetime geometry has a local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Martin Rainer

In this essay I point out that, in the context of semi-classical gravity, the equivalence principle can mitigate the cosmological constant problem. On a Minkowski space-time background with the usual $\mathbb{R}^4$ topology, the vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Yonadav Barry Ginat

Gravity theory based on current algebra is formulated. The gauge principle rather than the general covariance combined with the equivalence principle plays the pivotal role in the formalism, and the latter principles are derived as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Shotaro Shiba Funai , Hirotaka Sugawara

We construct a quadratic curvature theory of gravity whose graviton propagator around the Minkowski background respects wordline inversion symmetry, the particle approximation to modular invariance in string theory. This symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Steven Abel , Luca Buoninfante , Anupam Mazumdar