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After a brief review of the standard definition and analysis of classical singularities in general relativistic spacetimes, and of quantum singularities in static spacetimes with timelike classical singularities, an extension of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-16 Deborah A. Konkowski , Thomas M. Helliwell

We consider the propagation of smooth solitary waves in a two-dimensional generalization of the Camassa--Holm equation. We show that transverse perturbations to one-dimensional solitary waves behave similarly to the KP-II theory. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Anna Geyer , Yue Liu , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

Spatial solitary waves in colloidal suspensions of spherical dielectric nanoparticles are considered. The interaction of the nanoparticles is modelled as a hard-sphere gas, with the Carnahan-Starling formula used for the gas…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-10 T. R. Marchant , N. F. Smyth

The paper is devoted to analysis of different models that describe waves in fluid-filled and gas-filled elastic tubes and development of methods of calculation and numerical analysis of solutions with solitary waves and kinks for these…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-04-23 I. B. Bakholdin

We describe the properties of evanescent gravitational waves (EGWs)---wave solutions of Einstein equations which decay exponentially in some direction while propagating in another. Evanescent waves are well-known in acoustics and optics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-30 Sebastian Golat , Eugene A. Lim , Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño

As an example of the unification of gravitation and particle physics, an exact solution of the five-dimensional field equations is studied which describes waves in the classical Einstein vacuum. While the solution is essentially 5D in…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Paul S. Wesson

In these proceedings, we summarize our studies of free string propagation in (near-)singular scale-invariant plane wave geometries. We analyze the singular limit of the evolution for the center-of-mass motion and all excited string modes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Ben Craps , Frederik De Roo , Oleg Evnin

A Neumann problem for a wave equation perturbed by viscous terms with small parameters is considered. The interaction of waves with the diffusion effects caused by a higher-order derivative with small coefficient {\epsilon}, is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Monica De Angelis

We consider the propagation of perturbations along an infinitely long stationary open string in the background of a Schwarzschild black hole. The equations of motion for the perturbations in the 2 transverse physical directions are solved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. L. Larsen

We study the propagation, observation and control properties of the 1-d wave equation on a bounded interval discretized in space using the quadratic classical finite element approximation. A careful Fourier analysis of the discrete wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Aurora Marica , Enrique Zuazua

We use type I string models with supersymmetry broken by compactification (\`a la Scherk-Schwarz) in order to test the weak gravity conjecture in the presence of runaway potentials in a perturbative string theory setting. For a finite value…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-28 Quentin Bonnefoy , Emilian Dudas , Severin Lüst

This paper considers the existence and stability properties of two-dimensional solitary waves traversing an infinitely deep body of water. We assume that above the water is vacuum, and that the waves are acted upon by gravity with surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Hung Le

It is by now well-known that one can recover a potential in the wave equation from the knowledge of the initial waves, the boundary data and the flux on a part of the boundary satisfying the Gamma-conditions of J.-L. Lions. We are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-21 Lucie Baudouin , Sylvain Ervedoza

A system of two-dimensional nonlinear equations of hydrodynamics is considered. It is shown that for the this system in the general case a solution with weak discontinuity-type singularity behaves as a square root of S(x,y,t), where…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vitaly V. Bulatov , Yuriy V. Vladimirov , Vasily A. Vakorin

Non--minimal repulsive singularities (``repulsons'') in extended supergravity theories are investigated. The short distance antigravity properties of the repulsons are tested at the classical and the quantum level by a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Gaida , H. R. Hollmann , J. M. Stewart

Existence, uniqueness and classification is established for plane waves supported by an irreversible reaction which is a smooth function of local reactant and product concentrations (or prey and predator populations). Rudimentary analytic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Robert Milton

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating slab (between two parallel planes) in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Adel Messaoudi , Régis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

We study the plane (not necessarily monochromatic) gravitational waves at nonlinear quadratic order on a flat background in vacuum. We show that, in the harmonic gauge, the nonlinear waves are unstable. We argue that, at this order, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-10 Fabio Briscese , Paolo Maria Santini

The propagation of weak gravitational waves on the background of dark energy is studied. The consideration is carried out within the framework of an approximate approach where the cosmological scale factor is expanded as a power series for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Burkhard Kleihau , Jutta Kunz

The perturbative modes propagating along an infinite string are investigated within the framework of the gauge invariant perturbation formalism on a spacetime containing a self-gravitating straight string with a finite thickness. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kouji Nakamura , Hideki Ishihara