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The gravitational field in a spatially finite region is described as a microcanonical system. The density of states $\nu$ is expressed formally as a functional integral over Lorentzian metrics and is a functional of the geometrical boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 J. David Brown , James W. York

As is well known, the 0 - 0 component of the Schwarzschild space can be obtained by the requirement that the geodesic of slowly moving particles match the Newtonian equation. Given this result, we show here that the remaining components can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-01 Eduardo I. Guendelman , Arka Prabha Banik , Gilad Granit , Tomer Ygael , Christian Rohrhofer

The effective Lagrangian of a test particle, interacting with an ideal gas, is calculated with in the closed time path formalism in the one-loop and the leading order of the particle trajectory. The expansion in the time derivative is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-13 Janos Polonyi

The foundations are laid for the numerical computation of the actual worldline for a particle orbiting a black hole and emitting gravitational waves. The essential practicalities of this computation are here illustrated for a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler , Eirini Messaritaki , Bernard F. Whiting

The thermodynamics of an ideal gas enclosed in a box of volume a1 x a2 x a3 at temperature T is considered. The canonical partition function of the system is expressed in terms of complete elliptic integrals of the first kind, whose…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-10-30 M. I. Molina

As it is well known, the $0-0$ component of the Schwarzschild space can be obtained by the requirement that the geodesic of slowly moving particles match the Newtonian equation. Given this result, we show here that the remaining components…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-13 Eduardo I. Guendelman , Arka Prabha Banik , Gilad Granit , Tomer Ygael , Christian Rohrhofer

The partition function for a system of non-interacting $N-$particles can be found by summing over all the states of the system. The classical partition function for an ideal gas differs from Bosonic or Fermionic partition function in the…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-04-06 Sushil K. Singh , Savinder Kaur

We investigate the geodesics of a Schwarzschild spacetime embedded in an isotropic expanding cosmological background (McVittie metric). We focus on bound particle geodesics in a background including matter and phantom dark energy with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Ioannis Antoniou , Leandros Perivolaropoulos

A classical (non-quantum-mechanical) relativistic ideal gas in thermodynamic equilibrium in a uniformly accelerated frame of reference is studied using Gibbs's microcanonical and grand canonical formulations of statistical mechanics. Using…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Domingo J. Louis-Martinez

We obtain all ``regularization parameters'' (RP) needed for calculating the gravitational and electromagnetic self forces for an arbitrary geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. These RP values are required for implementing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Leor Barack , Amos Ori

The numerical calculation of gravitational self-force in extreme mass ratio inspiral systems is fundamentally challenging due to the singular nature of point-particle sources. To overcome these difficulties, the effective source method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Chao Zhang , Rong-gen Cai , Guoyang Fu , Yungui Gong , Xuchen Lu , Wenting Zhou

We consider a spherical symmetric black hole in the Schwarzschild metric and apply Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization to determine the energy levels. The canonical partition function is then computed and we show that the entropy coincides with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Marco Frasca

We provide a prescription to solve the metric completion problem in gravitational self-force calculations on a Kerr spacetime by fixing the remaining gauge freedom. We discuss the explicit example of eccentric equatorial orbits, recovering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-05 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

In this paper, we studied the geodesics of timelike and null like particles near an improved Schwarzschild black hole. The lapse function has been plotted and was found that only one horizon is possible. The equation of motion and effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Surajit Mandal

The quantum statistical mechanics of an ideal gas with a general free-particle energy obeying fractional exclusion statistics are systematically investigated in arbitrary dimensions. The pressure relations, the relation between pressure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gang Su , Masuo Suzuki

We study geodesics in the Schwarzschild space-time affected by an uncertainty in the mass parameter described by a Gaussian distribution. This study could serve as a first attempt at investigating possible quantum effects of black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 R. Casadio , A. Giusti , A. Mentrelli

We present a method for computing the evolution of a spacetime containing a massive particle and a black hole. The essential idea is that the gravitational field is evolved using full numerical relativity, with the particle generating a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nigel T. Bishop , Roberto Gomez , Sascha Husa , Luis Lehner , Jeffrey Winicour

As is well-known, the Schwarzschild metric cannot be derived based on pre-general-relativistic physics alone, which means using only special relativity, the Einstein equivalence principle and the Newtonian limit. The standard way to derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-13 Klaus Kassner

Formulating a perfect fluid filled spherically symmetric metric utilizing the 3+1 formalism for general relativity, we show that the metric coefficients are completely determined by the mass-energy distribution, and its time rate of change…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Lasky , A. W. C. Lun

The motion of a small compact object in a curved background spacetime deviates from a geodesic due to the action of its own field, giving rise to a self-force. This self-force may be calculated by integrating the Green function for the wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-06 Marc Casals , Sam Dolan , Adrian C. Ottewill , Barry Wardell