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Inspired by the fully non-linear Geodesic Light-Cone (GLC) gauge, we consider its analogous set of coordinates which describes the unperturbed Universe. Given this starting point, we then build a cosmological perturbation theory on top of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-15 Giuseppe Fanizza , Giovanni Marozzi , Matheus Medeiros , Gloria Schiaffino

It is demonstrated that any two reference frames (RFs), which are uniformly and rectilinearly moving relative to each other, can be adjusted via (possibly anisotropic) rescaling and re-synchronization so that the resulting pair of RFs is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Iosif Pinelis

Several authors have recently explored the idea that physical constants such as c and G might vary over time and have formulated theories describing this variation that can address a range of cosmological problems. Such work typically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Buchalter

The starting point of this work is the principle that all movement of particles and photons in the observable Universe must follow geodesics of a 4-dimensional space where time intervals are always a measure of geodesic arc lengths, i.e.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

Historians recently rehabilitated Einstein's "physical strategy" for General Relativity (GR). Independently, particle physicists similarly re-derived Einstein's equations for a massless spin 2 field. But why not a light \emph{massive} spin…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 J. Brian Pitts

The aim of our paper is to formulate and solve problems concerning multitime multiple recurrence equations. We discuss in detail the generic properties and the existence and uniqueness of solutions. Among the general things, we discuss in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-09 Cristian Ghiu , Raluca Tuliga , Constantin Udriste

The conformal flow of metrics [2] has been used to successfully establish a special case of the Penrose inequality, which yields a lower bound for the total mass of a spacetime in terms of horizon area. Here we show how to adapt the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-28 Qing Han , Marcus Khuri

A recurrence equation is a discrete integrable equation whose solutions are all periodic and the period is fixed. We show that infinitely many recurrence equations can be derived from the information about invariant varieties of periodic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Satoru Saito , Noriko Saitoh

It is a remarkable fact that all processes occurring in the observable Universe are irreversible, whereas the equations through which the fundamental laws of physics are formulated are invariant under time reversal. The emergence of…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Gustavo E. Romero , Daniela Pérez

Attempts to quantize general relativity encounter an odd problem. The Hamiltonian that normally generates time evolution vanishes in the case of general relativity as a result of diffeomorphism invariance. The theory seems to be saying that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-23 Olaf Dreyer

The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe highlighted General Relativity's inability to naturally account for dark energy without invoking a finely tuned cosmological constant. In response, a wide range of alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 P. A. G. Monteiro , C. J. A. P. Martins

The established way of looking at special relativity is based on Einstein postulates: the principle of relativity and the constancy of the velocity of light. In the most general geometric approach to the theory of special relativity, the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Evgeny Saldin

Recently, in a series of papers, we established the existence and found a general solution for the simultaneously rotating and twisting locally rotationally symmetric spacetimes in general relativity, which can model inhomogeneous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-25 Sayuri Singh , Amare Abebe , Rituparno Goswami , Sunil D. Maharaj

The n-time generalization of the Tangherlini solution [1] is considered. The equations of geodesics for the metric are integrated. For $n = 2$ it is shown that the naked singularity is absent only for two sets of parameters, corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Vladimir D. Ivashchuk , Vitaly N. Melnikov

The theory of general relativity predicts the existence of closed time-like curves (CTCs), which theoretically would allow an observer to travel back in time and interact with their past self. This raises the question of whether this could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Germain Tobar , Fabio Costa

In earlier published work, it was proposed that light speed was larger in the early universe by 30 orders of magnitude compared to its presently observed value. This change in the speed of light is associated with a spontaneous breaking of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

The spontaneous breaking of local Lorentz invariance in the early Universe, associated with a first order phase transition at a critical time $t_c$, generates a large increase in the speed of light and a superluminary communication of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. W. Moffat

We show that the mechanism of gap formation has a resonance nature. The special real fundamental solutions were discovered which `paradoxically' have knot distribution with a period coinciding with that of potential at all energies of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. N. Zakhariev , V. M. Chabanov

We show that many Lorentzian manifolds of dimension >2 do not admit a spacelike codimension-one foliation, and that almost every manifold of dimension >2 which admits a Lorentzian metric at all admits one which satisfies the dominant energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Nardmann

An extension of the theory of General Relativity is proposed, based on pseudo-complex space-time coordinates. The new theory corresponds to the introduction of two, in general different, metrics which are connected through specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter O. Hess , Walter Greiner