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A mass distribution is analyzed in terms of classical gravitational field theory. Newton's law of gravitation is consistently applied on the assumption that the equivalence of energy and mass according to Einstein's theory of relativity is…

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In this paper we consider an extension to Eddington's proposal for the gravitational action. We study tensor perturbations of a homogeneous and isotropic space-time in the Eddington regime, where modifications to Einstein gravity are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-08 Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Maximo Banados , Pedro G. Ferreira

We show that if the visible universe is a membrane embedded in a higher-dimensional space, particles in uniform motion radiate gravitational waves because of spacetime lumpiness. This phenomenon is analogous to the electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Vitor Cardoso , Marco Cavaglia , Mario Pimenta

Viewing gravitational energy-momentum as equal by observation, but different in essence from inertial energy-momentum naturally leads to the gauge theory of volume-preserving diffeormorphisms of a four-dimensional in- ner space. To analyse…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Christian Wiesendanger

Gravitational waves are being shown to derive directly from Newtonian dynamics for a continuous mass distribution, e g compressible fluids or equivalent. It is shown that the equations governing a continuous mass distribution, i e the…

General Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Peter Vadasz

Planck-scale quantum spacetime undergoes probabilistic local curvature fluctuations whose distributions cannot explicitly depend on position otherwise vacuum's small-scale quantum structure would fail to be statistically homogeneous. Since…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-28 Christopher D. Burton

One way the ultraviolet problem may be solved is explicit physical regularization. In this scenario, QFT is only the long distance limit of some unknown non-Poincare-invariant microscopic theory. One can ask how complex and contrived such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilja Schmelzer

It is generally argued that the combined effect of Heisenberg principle and general relativity leads to a minimum time uncertainty. Most of the analyses supporting this conclusion are based on a perturbative approach to quantization. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Fernando Barbero G. , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

Using Schwinger's quantum action principle, dispersion relations are obtained for neutral scalar mesons interacting with bi-local sources. These relations are used as the basis of a method for representing the effect of interactions in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Burgess

In thirties years of last century Dirac proposed to treat Schrodinger equation as the equation of diffusion with imaginary diffusion coefficient. In the frame of multifractal theory of time and space (in this model our the multifractal…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Ya. Kobelev

Gravitational radiation with roughly spherical wavefronts, produced by roughly spherical black holes or other astrophysical objects, is described by an approximation scheme. The first quasi-spherical approximation, describing radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean A. Hayward

We investigate the cosmological background evolution and perturbations in a general class of spatially covariant theories of gravity, which propagates two tensor modes and one scalar mode. We show that the structure of the theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 Tomohiro Fujita , Xian Gao , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Based on the generalized Langevin equation for the momentum of a Brownian particle a generalized asymptotic Einstein relation is derived. It agrees with the well-known Einstein relation in the case of normal diffusion but continues to hold…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Hyun Kyung Shin , Bongsik Choi , Peter Talkner , Eok Kyun Lee

The Brownian motion of a point particle induced by quantum vacuum fluctuations of a massless real scalar field in Einstein's universe is studied. By assuming the small displacement condition, the dispersion in the momentum and position of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 E. J. B. Ferreira , H. F. Santana Mota

A straightforward method to compute Hamilton's density for theories that are linear in the spacetime curvature is provided. It is shown that the lapse function and shift vector still give rise to primary constraints, while the induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-23 Yuri Bonder

We propose the use of a gravitational uncertainty principle for gravitation. We define the corresponding gravitational Planck's constant and the gravitational quantum of mass. We define entropy in terms of the quantum of gravity with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Antonio Alfonso-Faus

Various interpretations of the Riemann Curvature Tensor, Ricci Tensor, and Scalar Curvature are described. Also, the physical meanings of the Einstein Tensor and Einstein's Equations are discussed. Finally a derivation of Newtonian Gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Lee C. Loveridge

The gravitational self-force has thus far been formulated in background spacetimes for which the metric is a solution to the Einstein field equations in vacuum. While this formulation is sufficient to describe the motion of a small object…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Peter Zimmerman , Eric Poisson

General covariance in quantum gravity is seen once one integrates over all possible metrics. In recent years topological field theories have given us a different route to general covariance without integrating over all possible metrics.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Andrew Toon

Suggested theory involves a drastic revision of a role of local internal symmetries in physical concept of curved geometry. Under the reflection of fields and their dynamics from Minkowski to Riemannian space a standard gauge principle of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. T. Ter-Kazarian