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We find a coordinate-independent wave-packet solution of the massive Klein-Gordon equation with the conformal coupling to gravity in the de-Sitter universe. This solution can locally be represented through the superposition of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-05 V. A. Emelyanov

We propose superluminal solitons residing in the momentum gap (k-gap) of nonlinear photonic time-crystals. These gap solitons are structured as plane-waves in space while being periodically self-reconstructing wavepackets in time. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-21 Yiming Pan , Moshe-Ishay Cohen , Mordechai Segev

We develop a theory of Feynman propagators for the massive Klein--Gordon equation with asymptotically static perturbations. Building on our previous work on the causal propagators, we employ a framework based on propagation of singularities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Dean Baskin , Moritz Doll , Jesse Gell-Redman

Laplace operators on metric graphs give rise to Klein-Gordon and wave operators. Solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation and the wave equation are studied and finite propagation speed is established. Massive, free quantum fields are then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-02 Robert Schrader

It has been found in several papers that, because of quantum corrections, light front can propagate with superluminal velocity in gravitational fields and even in flat space-time across two conducting plates. We show that, if this is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Dolgov , I. D. Novikov

The Klein-Gordon equation in the presence of a spatially one-dimensional Hulth\'en potential is solved exactly and the scattering solutions are obtained in terms of hypergeometric functions. The transmission coefficient is derived by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-16 Jian You Guo , Xiang Zheng Fang , Chuan Mei Xie

We study soliton solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation via Lie symmetries and the travelling-wave ansatz. It is shown, by taking a linear combination of the spatial and temporal Lie point symmetries, that soliton solutions naturally exist,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-05-22 Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan

We construct a class of solutions to the Cauchy problem of the Klein-Gordon equation on any standard static spacetime. Specifically, we have constructed solutions to the Cauchy problem based on any self-adjoint extension (satisfying a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 David M. A. Bullock

Recently, a number of experimental observations on the superluminal group velocities of pulses propagating in dispersive media have led to reconsidering electromagnetism theory in an unconventional framework. To consider faster-than-light…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Luca Nanni

We address the issue of potential superluminal propagation of gravitational waves in backgrounds neighboring the previously suggested bounce [arXiv:1807.08361] in beyond Horndeski theory. We find that the bouncing solution lies right at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 S. Mironov , V. Rubakov , V. Volkova

In present work we examine the implications on both, space-time measures and causal structure, of a generalization of the local causality postulate by asserting its validity to all motion regimes, the subluminal and superluminal ones. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-11 Benjamín Calvo-Mozo

We present a new complex non-stationary particle-like solution of the non-linear Klein-Gordon equation with several spatial variables. The construction is based on reduction to an ordinary differential equation.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-12-21 M. V. Perel , I. V. Fialkovsky

We prove that semiclassical gravity in conformally static, globally hyperbolic spacetimes with a massless, conformally coupled Klein-Gordon field is well posed, when viewed as a coupled theory for the dynamical conformal factor of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Sujoy K. Modak

In this paper, we study solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation on Bianchi backgrounds. In particular, we are interested in the asymptotic behaviour of solutions in the direction of silent singularities. The main conclusion is that, for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-15 Hans Ringström

We consider propagation of instability fronts in conservative nonlinear wave systems by the Whitham method. Whitham modulation equations for periodic solutions of the generalized Klein-Gordon equation are solved in the limit of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-11 A. M. Kamchatnov

We find dispersion-free wavepacket solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation, with the only free parameter being the wavepacket velocity $ {\bf v} $. These wavefunctions are eigenvectors of a velocity operator with commuting components which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Shaun N. Mosley

The quantum gravity effects of vacuum polarization of gravitons propagating in a curved spacetime cause the quantum vacuum to act as a dispersive medium with a refractive index. Due to this dispersive medium gravitons acquire superluminal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-11 J. W. Moffat

In this article one will discuss the system of coupled nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with different velocities and different masses. The nonlinearity considered is a general quadratic nonlinearity without any restriction. The method is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-21 Yue Ma

In order to reduce the Klein-Gordon equation (with minimal coupling), we introduce a generalization of the so-called "mode solutions" that are well-known in the special case of a Robertson-Walker universe. After separation of the variables,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Philippe Droz-Vincent

We present a model for a vacuum-like effective medium composed of the absorbing and gain media under the special designed parameters. Within the linear response theory, we prove that any pulse signal (with or without a discontinuity)…

Optics · Physics 2008-10-21 Li-Gang Wang