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We study the Einstein-Maxwell system of equations in spherically symmetric gravitational fields for static interior spacetimes. The condition for pressure isotropy is reduced to a recurrence equation with variable, rational coefficients. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Thirukkanesh , S. D. Maharaj

We consider the interaction of gravity, as expressed by Einstein's Equations of General Relativity, to other force fields. We describe some recent results, discussing both the mathematics, and the physical interpretations. These results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joel A. Smoller

A systematic study of deformations of four-dimensional Einsteinian space-times embedded in a pseudo-Euclidean space $E^N$ of higher dimension is presented. Infinitesimal deformations, seen as vector fields in $E^N$, can be divided in two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-01 Richard Kerner , Salvatore Vitale

Already in the 1970s there where attempts to present a set of ground rules, sometimes referred to as a theory of gravitation theories, which theories of gravity should satisfy in order to be considered viable in principle and, therefore,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas P Sotiriou , Valerio Faraoni , Stefano Liberati

Albert Einstein's journey to formulate the theory of general relativity involved significant shifts in his approach to gravitational field equations. Starting in 1912, he collaborated with Marcel Grossmann and initially explored broadly…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Galina Weinstein

Generalized differential forms are used in discussions of metric geometries and Einstein's vacuum field equations. Cartan's structure equations are generalized and applied. In particular flat generalized connections are associated with any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 D C Robinson

In the last 100 years, the most important equations in physics are Maxwell's equations for electrodynamics, Einstein's equation for gravity, Dirac's equation for the electron and Yang-Mills equation for elementary particles. Do these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-14 Yuan K. Ha

In Einstein theory of gravity the initial configuration of metric field and its time derivative are related to matter configuration by four equations called constraints. We use the method of conformal metrics (York Method) to solve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Houri Ziaeepour

The Einstein postulates assert an invariance of the propagation speed of light in vacuum for any observer, and which amounts to a presumed absence of any preferred frame. The postulates appear to be directly linked to relativistic effects…

General Physics · Physics 2007-08-07 Reginald T. Cahill

In principle, global properties of solution of Einstein equations need to be addressed using the conformal Einstein equations, because this conformal compactification allows a clean definition of the `infinities' (spacelike, timelike and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Thomas Mädler , Emanuel Gallo

Symmetric gauge fields and invariant metrics in homogeneous spaces are found. Their use for finding exact solutions of the Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) equations is discussed.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 J. M. Mourão

It is offered another method how to describe contemporary stage of the Universe evolution. The method is based upon classical Einstein equations without a dark energy and other hypothetical fields.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lennur Ya. Arifov

In the harmonic description of general relativity, the principle part of Einstein equations reduces to a constrained system of 10 curved space wave equations for the components of the space-time metric. We use the pseudo-differential theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-21 H. -O. Kreiss , J. Winicour

Many of the technical complications associated with the general theory of relativity ultimately stem from the nonlinearity of Einstein's equation. It is shown here that an appropriate choice of dynamical variables may be used to eliminate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-07 Abraham I. Harte

Five classes of radiative solutions of Einstein's field equations are discussed in the light of some new developments. These are plane waves and their collisions, cylindrical waves, Robinson-Trautman and type N spacetimes, boost-rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Jiri Bicak

A broad class of generalized Einstein's gravity can be cast into Einstein's gravity with a minimally coupled scalar field using suitable conformal rescaling of the metric. Using this conformal equivalence between the theories, we derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 J. Hwang

I present a new method to generate rotating solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations from static solutions, give several examples of its application, and discuss its general properties.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerard Clement

In this work numerical methods for solving Einstein's equations are developed and applied to the study of inhomogeneous cosmological models. A two-dimensional computer code is described which implements two advanced numerical methods:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon D. Hern

It is shown that in the weak field approximation solutions of Brans-Dicke equations are simply related to the solutions of General Relativity equations for the same matter distribution. A simple method is developed which permits to obtain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Barros , C. Romero

The gravitational field of an idealized plane-wave solution of the Maxwell equations can be described in closed form. After discussing this particular solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations, the motion of neutral test particles, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Jan . W. van Holten