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We describe a new type of gravitational singularities which are caustics of spatial-temporal foliations. An example of gravitational wave solution forming a singularity with caustics is given.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 G. A. Sardanashvily , E. G. Timoshenko

Suppose a Lagrangian is constructed from its fields and their derivatives. When the field configuration is a distribution, it is unambiguously defined as the limit of a sequence of smooth fields. The Lagrangian may or may not be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 E. Gravanis , S. Willison

The nature of gravitational singularities, long mysterious, has now become clear through a combination of mathematical and numerical analysis. As the singularity is approached, the time derivative terms in the field equations dominate, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 David Garfinkle

The curvature singularity in viable f(R) gravity models is examined when the background density is dense. This singularity could be eliminated by adding the $R^{2}$ term in the Lagrangian. Some of cosmological consequences, in particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-03 Chung-Chi Lee , Chao-Qiang Geng , Louis Yang

We construct stationary flat three-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds with singularities that are obtained from Euclidean surfaces with cone singularities and closed one-forms on these surfaces. In the application to (2+1)-gravity, these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Thierry Barbot , Catherine Meusburger

We investigate the effects of light cone caustics on the propagation of linear scalar fields in generic four-dimensional spacetimes. In particular, we analyze the singular structure of relevant Green functions. As expected from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-09 Abraham I. Harte , Theodore D. Drivas

The electric field distributions and space-time singularity curves are computed for ultrashort pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams having spatial chirp. Due to the breaking of cylindrical symmetry by the spatial chirp, the singularities…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-14 Spencer W. Jolly

For a singular Riemannian foliation whose leaves are properly embedded, we show in the first part of this article the existence of global tubular neighbourhoods, and we develop a global description of the foliation as stratification by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Eva Nowak

An algebraic formalism for description of quantum states of charged particle with spin moving in two-dimensional space under influence of singular magnetic field is developed in terms of graded algebras. The fundamental assumption is that…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-30 Wladyslaw Marcinek

We investigate the caustic topologies for binary gravitational lenses made up of two objects whose gravitational potential declines as $1/r^n$. With $n<1$ this corresponds to power-law dust distributions like the singular isothermal sphere.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-06 V. Bozza , C. Melchiorre

A longstanding conjecture by Belinskii, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz that the singularity in generic gravitational collapse is spacelike, local, and oscillatory is explored analytically and numerically in spatially inhomogeneous cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Beverly K. Berger , David Garfinkle , James Isenberg , Vincent Moncrief , Marsha Weaver

The proposed theory of causally structured discrete fields studies integer values on directed edges of a self-similar graph with a propagation rule, which we define as a set of valid combinations of integer values and edge directions around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-30 K. V. Bayandin

We study singularities of Gauss maps of fronts and give characterizations of types of singularities of Gauss maps by geometric properties of fronts which are related to behavior of bounded principal curvatures. Moreover, we investigate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Keisuke Teramoto

We give formulas for the degrees of the spaces of foliations in P2 with a dicritical singularity of prescribed order. Blowing up such singularity induces, generically, a foliation with all but finitely many leaves transversal to the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-01 V. Ferrer , I. Vainsencher

We argue that space-time properties are not absolute with respect to the used frame of reference as is to be expected according to ideas of relativity of space and time properties by Berkley - Leibnitz - Mach- Poincar\'{e}. From this point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. V. Verozub

In topological 1D gravity, the genus zero one-point function combined with the gradient of the action function leads to a spectral curve and its special deformation. After quantization, the partition function is identified as an element in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 Jian Zhou

This thesis consists of two parts, connected by one central theme: the dynamics of the "shape of space". The first part of the thesis concerns the construction of a theory of gravity dynamically equivalent to general relativity (GR) in 3+1…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-25 Henrique Gomes

The gravitational collapse of a spherical distribution, in a class of f(R) theories of gravity, where f(R) is power function of R, is discussed. The spacetime is assumed to admit a homothetic Killing vector. In the collapsing modes, some of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-28 Soumya Chakrabarti , Narayan Banerjee

For singular $n$-manifolds in $\mathbb R^{n+k}$ with a corank 1 singular point at $p\in M^n_{\mbox{sing}}$ we define up to $l(n-1)$ different axial curvatures at $p$, where $l=\min\{n,k+1\}$. These curvatures are obtained using the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-15 Pedro Benedini Riul , Jorge Luiz Deolindo Silva , Raúl Oset Sinha

This note emphasizes the role of multi-scale wave structures and junction conditions in many fields of physics, from the dynamics of fluids with non-convex equations of state to the study of gravitational singularities and bouncing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-25 Philippe G. LeFloch
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