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1707.01333
Bibhas Majhi Ranjan
Ananya Adhikari, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Chandramouli Chowdhury, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi
Fluctuation-dissipation in accelerated frames
The para above Eq. (6) has been modified, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys. Rev. D 97, 045003 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.045003
null
gr-qc cond-mat.stat-mech hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
An uniformly accelerated (Rindler) observer will detect particles in the Minkowski vacuum, known as Unruh effect. The spectrum is thermal and the temperature is given by that of the Killing horizon, which is proportional to the acceleration. Considering these particles are kept in a thermal bath with this temperature, we find that the correlation function of the random force due to radiation acting on the particles as measured by the accelerated frame, shows the fluctuation-dissipation relation. It is observed that the correlations, in both ($1+1$) spacetime and ($1+3$) dimensional spacetimes, are of Brownian type. We discuss the implications of this new observation at the end.
[ { "created": "Wed, 5 Jul 2017 11:48:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:29:48 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 2 Jan 2018 06:52:18 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:41:30 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2018-02-07
[ [ "Adhikari", "Ananya", "" ], [ "Bhattacharya", "Krishnakanta", "" ], [ "Chowdhury", "Chandramouli", "" ], [ "Majhi", "Bibhas Ranjan", "" ] ]
An uniformly accelerated (Rindler) observer will detect particles in the Minkowski vacuum, known as Unruh effect. The spectrum is thermal and the temperature is given by that of the Killing horizon, which is proportional to the acceleration. Considering these particles are kept in a thermal bath with this temperature, we find that the correlation function of the random force due to radiation acting on the particles as measured by the accelerated frame, shows the fluctuation-dissipation relation. It is observed that the correlations, in both ($1+1$) spacetime and ($1+3$) dimensional spacetimes, are of Brownian type. We discuss the implications of this new observation at the end.
1909.05588
Tatyana P. Shestakova
T. P. Shestakova
On the meaning of the wave function of the Universe
15 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D28 (2019) 1941009
10.1142/S0218271819410098
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The meaning of the wave function of the Universe was actively discussed in 1980s. In most works on quantum cosmology it is accepted that the wave function is a probability amplitude for the Universe to have some space geometry, or to be found in some point of the Wheeler superspace. It seems that the wave function gives maximally objective description compatible with quantum theory. However, the probability distribution does not depend on time and does not take into account the existing of our macroscopic evolving Universe. What we wish to know is how quantum processes in the Early Universe determined the state of the present Universe in which we are able to observe macroscopic consequences of these quantum processes. As an alternative to the Wheeler - DeWitt quantum geometrodynamics we consider the picture that can be obtained in the extended phase space approach to quantization of gravity. The wave function in this approach describes different states of the Universe which correspond to different stages of its evolution.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:05:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-12-20
[ [ "Shestakova", "T. P.", "" ] ]
The meaning of the wave function of the Universe was actively discussed in 1980s. In most works on quantum cosmology it is accepted that the wave function is a probability amplitude for the Universe to have some space geometry, or to be found in some point of the Wheeler superspace. It seems that the wave function gives maximally objective description compatible with quantum theory. However, the probability distribution does not depend on time and does not take into account the existing of our macroscopic evolving Universe. What we wish to know is how quantum processes in the Early Universe determined the state of the present Universe in which we are able to observe macroscopic consequences of these quantum processes. As an alternative to the Wheeler - DeWitt quantum geometrodynamics we consider the picture that can be obtained in the extended phase space approach to quantization of gravity. The wave function in this approach describes different states of the Universe which correspond to different stages of its evolution.
2111.14016
Matt Visser
Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington)
Feynman's i-epsilon prescription, almost real spacetimes, and acceptable complex spacetimes
V1: 22 pages; 50 references; V2: Now 27 pages; 54 references. Significant improvement (and restructuring) in presentation; now includes a tetrad analysis. V3: Now 33 pages; 55 references. Significant pedagogical improvements, sign conventions more carefully explained and standardized. This version accepted for publication in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP08(2022)129
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Feynman's i-epsilon prescription for quantum field theoretic propagators has a quite natural reinterpretation in terms of a slight complex deformation of the Minkowski spacetime metric. Though originally a strictly flat-space result, once reinterpreted in this way, these ideas can be naturally extended first to semi-classical curved-spacetime QFT on a fixed background geometry and then, (with more work), to fluctuating spacetime geometries. There are intimate connections with variants of the weak energy condition. We shall take the Lorentzian signature metric as primary, but note that allowing the complex deformation to become large leads to a variant of Wick rotation, and more importantly leads to physically motivated constraints on the configuration space of acceptable off-shell geometries to include in Feynman's functional integral when attempting to quantize gravity. Ultimately this observation allows one to connect the discussion back to recent ideas on "acceptable" complex metrics, in the Louko-Sorkin and Kontsevich-Segal-Witten sense, with Lorentzian signature spacetimes occurring exactly on the boundary of the set of "acceptable" complex metrics. By adopting the tetrad formalism we explicitly construct the most general set of acceptable complex metrics satisfying the 0-form, 1-form, and 2-form acceptability conditions.
[ { "created": "Sun, 28 Nov 2021 01:22:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 5 Dec 2021 08:21:01 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 13 Jul 2022 10:03:31 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-09-07
[ [ "Visser", "Matt", "", "Victoria University of Wellington" ] ]
Feynman's i-epsilon prescription for quantum field theoretic propagators has a quite natural reinterpretation in terms of a slight complex deformation of the Minkowski spacetime metric. Though originally a strictly flat-space result, once reinterpreted in this way, these ideas can be naturally extended first to semi-classical curved-spacetime QFT on a fixed background geometry and then, (with more work), to fluctuating spacetime geometries. There are intimate connections with variants of the weak energy condition. We shall take the Lorentzian signature metric as primary, but note that allowing the complex deformation to become large leads to a variant of Wick rotation, and more importantly leads to physically motivated constraints on the configuration space of acceptable off-shell geometries to include in Feynman's functional integral when attempting to quantize gravity. Ultimately this observation allows one to connect the discussion back to recent ideas on "acceptable" complex metrics, in the Louko-Sorkin and Kontsevich-Segal-Witten sense, with Lorentzian signature spacetimes occurring exactly on the boundary of the set of "acceptable" complex metrics. By adopting the tetrad formalism we explicitly construct the most general set of acceptable complex metrics satisfying the 0-form, 1-form, and 2-form acceptability conditions.
2201.13163
Parth Bambhaniya
Siddharth Madan, Parth Bambhaniya
Tidal force effects and periodic orbits in null naked singularity spacetime
9 pages, 10 figures
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Naked singularities form during the gravitational collapse of inhomogeneous matter clouds. The final nature of the singularity depends on the initial conditions of the matter properties and types of matter profiles. These naked singularities can also be divided into two types: null-like and timelike singularities. The spacelike singularity of the Schwarzschild black hole can be distinguished from the null and timelike naked singularity spacetimes. In light of this, we investigate the precession of timelike bound orbits in the null naked singularity spacetime, as well as tidal force effects and geodesic deviation features. As a result, we find that the orbital precession of the timelike bound orbits in null naked singularity spacetime could be distinguished from the Schwarzschild precession case. The radial component of the tidal force has an intriguing profile, whereas the angular component has a profile which is comparable to that of a Schwarzschild black hole scenario. The geodesic deviation equation is then solved numerically, yielding results that resemble a Schwarzschild black hole. These characteristic features can then be used to discern amongst these singularities.
[ { "created": "Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:18:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 31 May 2022 09:17:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-06-01
[ [ "Madan", "Siddharth", "" ], [ "Bambhaniya", "Parth", "" ] ]
Naked singularities form during the gravitational collapse of inhomogeneous matter clouds. The final nature of the singularity depends on the initial conditions of the matter properties and types of matter profiles. These naked singularities can also be divided into two types: null-like and timelike singularities. The spacelike singularity of the Schwarzschild black hole can be distinguished from the null and timelike naked singularity spacetimes. In light of this, we investigate the precession of timelike bound orbits in the null naked singularity spacetime, as well as tidal force effects and geodesic deviation features. As a result, we find that the orbital precession of the timelike bound orbits in null naked singularity spacetime could be distinguished from the Schwarzschild precession case. The radial component of the tidal force has an intriguing profile, whereas the angular component has a profile which is comparable to that of a Schwarzschild black hole scenario. The geodesic deviation equation is then solved numerically, yielding results that resemble a Schwarzschild black hole. These characteristic features can then be used to discern amongst these singularities.
0907.1452
Tigran Tchrakian
Eugen Radu, D. H. Tchrakian
Gravitating Yang--Mills fields in all dimensions
Presented to Heraeus School, Bremen, September 2008
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A classification of gravitating Yang--Mills systems in all dimensions is presented. These systems are set up so that they support finite energy solutions. Both regular and black hole solutions are considered, the former being the limit of the latter for vanishing event horizon radius. Special attention is paid to systems necessarily involving higher order Yang--Mills curvature terms, along with the option of incorporating higher order terms in the Riemann curvature. The scope here is restricted to Einstein systems, with or without cosmological constant, and the Yang--Mills(--Higgs) systems.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:16:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-07-10
[ [ "Radu", "Eugen", "" ], [ "Tchrakian", "D. H.", "" ] ]
A classification of gravitating Yang--Mills systems in all dimensions is presented. These systems are set up so that they support finite energy solutions. Both regular and black hole solutions are considered, the former being the limit of the latter for vanishing event horizon radius. Special attention is paid to systems necessarily involving higher order Yang--Mills curvature terms, along with the option of incorporating higher order terms in the Riemann curvature. The scope here is restricted to Einstein systems, with or without cosmological constant, and the Yang--Mills(--Higgs) systems.
2310.00857
P. A. Gonzalez
Ram\'on B\'ecar, P. A. Gonz\'alez, Eleftherios Papantonopoulos, Yerko V\'asquez
Massive Scalar Field Perturbations of Black Holes Surrounded by Dark Matter
Version accepted for publication in EPJC
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider scalar field perturbations in the background of black holes immersed in perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM). We find, by using the sixth order Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation, that the longest-lived modes are the ones with higher angular number, for a scalar field mass smaller than a critical value, known as anomalous decay rate of the quasinormal modes, while that beyond this critical value the behaviour is inverted. Moreover, we show that it is possible to recover the real part of the quasinormal frequencies (QNFs), the imaginary part of the QNFs, and the critical scalar field mass, of the Schwarzschild background for different values of the PFDM intensity parameter $k$, respectively. For values of $k$ smaller than these values, the mentioned quantities are greater than the Schwarzschild background. However, beyond of these values of $k$, these quantities are smaller than the Schwarzschild background.
[ { "created": "Mon, 2 Oct 2023 02:39:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 4 Mar 2024 12:55:41 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-03-05
[ [ "Bécar", "Ramón", "" ], [ "González", "P. A.", "" ], [ "Papantonopoulos", "Eleftherios", "" ], [ "Vásquez", "Yerko", "" ] ]
We consider scalar field perturbations in the background of black holes immersed in perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM). We find, by using the sixth order Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation, that the longest-lived modes are the ones with higher angular number, for a scalar field mass smaller than a critical value, known as anomalous decay rate of the quasinormal modes, while that beyond this critical value the behaviour is inverted. Moreover, we show that it is possible to recover the real part of the quasinormal frequencies (QNFs), the imaginary part of the QNFs, and the critical scalar field mass, of the Schwarzschild background for different values of the PFDM intensity parameter $k$, respectively. For values of $k$ smaller than these values, the mentioned quantities are greater than the Schwarzschild background. However, beyond of these values of $k$, these quantities are smaller than the Schwarzschild background.
1209.6088
Peter Taylor
Peter Taylor
Self-force on an arbitrarily coupled static scalar particle in a wormhole space-time
6 pages, 1 figure, Significant changes/corrections made to previous version
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.024046
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we consider the problem of computing the self-force and self-energy for a static scalar charge in a wormhole space-time with throat profile $r(\rho)=\sqrt{\rho^{2}+a^{2}}$ for arbitrary coupling of the field to the curvature. This calculation has previously been considered numerically by Bezerra and Khusnutdinov, while analytic results have been obtained in the special cases of minimal ($\xi=0$) coupling and conformal coupling ($\xi=1/8$ in three dimensions). We present here a closed form expression for the static Green's function for arbitrary coupling and hence we obtain an analytic expression for the self-force. The self-force depends crucially on the coupling of the field to the curvature of the space-time and hence it is useful to determine the dependence explicitly. The numerical computation can identify some qualitative aspects of this dependence such as the change in the sign of the force as it passes through the conformally coupled value, as well as the fact that the self-force diverges for $\xi=1/2$. From the closed form expression, it is straight-forward to see that there is an infinite set of values of the coupling constant for which the self-force diverges, but we also see that there is an infinite set of values for which the self-force vanishes.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:08:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:51:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "Taylor", "Peter", "" ] ]
In this paper, we consider the problem of computing the self-force and self-energy for a static scalar charge in a wormhole space-time with throat profile $r(\rho)=\sqrt{\rho^{2}+a^{2}}$ for arbitrary coupling of the field to the curvature. This calculation has previously been considered numerically by Bezerra and Khusnutdinov, while analytic results have been obtained in the special cases of minimal ($\xi=0$) coupling and conformal coupling ($\xi=1/8$ in three dimensions). We present here a closed form expression for the static Green's function for arbitrary coupling and hence we obtain an analytic expression for the self-force. The self-force depends crucially on the coupling of the field to the curvature of the space-time and hence it is useful to determine the dependence explicitly. The numerical computation can identify some qualitative aspects of this dependence such as the change in the sign of the force as it passes through the conformally coupled value, as well as the fact that the self-force diverges for $\xi=1/2$. From the closed form expression, it is straight-forward to see that there is an infinite set of values of the coupling constant for which the self-force diverges, but we also see that there is an infinite set of values for which the self-force vanishes.
1305.5896
Giovanni Otalora
G. Otalora
Cosmological dynamics of tachyonic teleparallel dark energy
14 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1305.0474
Phys. Rev. D 88, (2013) 063505
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.063505
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A detailed dynamical analysis of the tachyonic teleparallel dark energy model, in which a non-canonical scalar field (tachyon field) is non-minimally coupled to gravitation, is performed. It is found that, when the non-minimal coupling is ruled by a dynamically changing coefficient $\alpha\equiv f_{,\phi}/\sqrt{f}$, with $f(\phi)$ an arbitrary function of the scalar field $\phi$, the universe may experience a field-matter-dominated era "$\phi$MDE", in which it has some portions of the energy density of $\phi$ in the matter dominated era. This is the most significant difference in relation to the so-called teleparallel dark energy scenario, in which a canonical scalar field (quintessence) is non-minimally coupled to gravitation.
[ { "created": "Sat, 25 May 2013 07:28:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:57:10 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-09-06
[ [ "Otalora", "G.", "" ] ]
A detailed dynamical analysis of the tachyonic teleparallel dark energy model, in which a non-canonical scalar field (tachyon field) is non-minimally coupled to gravitation, is performed. It is found that, when the non-minimal coupling is ruled by a dynamically changing coefficient $\alpha\equiv f_{,\phi}/\sqrt{f}$, with $f(\phi)$ an arbitrary function of the scalar field $\phi$, the universe may experience a field-matter-dominated era "$\phi$MDE", in which it has some portions of the energy density of $\phi$ in the matter dominated era. This is the most significant difference in relation to the so-called teleparallel dark energy scenario, in which a canonical scalar field (quintessence) is non-minimally coupled to gravitation.
2304.12148
Justin Janquart
Justin Janquart, K. Haris, Otto A. Hannuksela, Chris Van Den Broeck
The Return of GOLUM: Improving Distributed Joint Parameter Estimation for Strongly-Lensed Gravitational Waves
11 pages, 9 figures
null
10.1093/mnras/stad2838
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Owing to the forecasted improved sensitivity of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, new research avenues will become accessible. This is the case for gravitational-wave strong lensing, predicted with a non-negligible observation rate in the coming years. However, because one needs to investigate all the event pairs in the data, searches for strongly-lensed gravitational waves are often computationally heavy, and one faces high false-alarm rates. In this paper, we present upgrades made to the \GOLUM software, making it more reliable while increasing its speed by re-casting the look-up table, imposing a sample control, and implementing symmetric runs on the two lensed images. We show how the recovered posteriors have improved coverage of the parameter space and how we increase the pipeline's stability. Finally, we show the results obtained by performing a joint analysis of all the events reported until the GWTC-3 catalog, finding similar conclusions to the ones presented in the literature.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:58:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-10-18
[ [ "Janquart", "Justin", "" ], [ "Haris", "K.", "" ], [ "Hannuksela", "Otto A.", "" ], [ "Broeck", "Chris Van Den", "" ] ]
Owing to the forecasted improved sensitivity of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, new research avenues will become accessible. This is the case for gravitational-wave strong lensing, predicted with a non-negligible observation rate in the coming years. However, because one needs to investigate all the event pairs in the data, searches for strongly-lensed gravitational waves are often computationally heavy, and one faces high false-alarm rates. In this paper, we present upgrades made to the \GOLUM software, making it more reliable while increasing its speed by re-casting the look-up table, imposing a sample control, and implementing symmetric runs on the two lensed images. We show how the recovered posteriors have improved coverage of the parameter space and how we increase the pipeline's stability. Finally, we show the results obtained by performing a joint analysis of all the events reported until the GWTC-3 catalog, finding similar conclusions to the ones presented in the literature.
2002.12590
Adrien Kuntz
Philippe Brax, Lavinia Heisenberg, Adrien Kuntz
Unveiling the Galileon in a three-body system : scalar and gravitational wave production
29 pages, 1 figure. Version accepted for publication in JCAP
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/012
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the prospect of detecting cubic Galileons through their imprint on gravitational wave signals from a triple system. Namely, we consider a massive Black Hole (BH) surrounded by a binary system of two smaller BHs. We assume that the three BHs acquire a conformal coupling to the scalar field whose origin could be due to cosmology or to the galactic environment. In this case, the massive BH has a Vainshtein radius which englobes the smaller ones and suppresses the scalar effects on the motion of the binary system. On the other hand the two binaries can be outside each other's redressed Vainshtein radius calculated in the background of the central BH, allowing for a perturbative treatment of their dynamics. Despite the strong Vainshtein suppression, we find that the scalar effects on the binary system are slightly enhanced with respect to the static case and a significant amount of power can be emitted in the form of the Galileon scalar field, hence actively participating in the inspiralling phase. We compute the modification to the GW phase and show that it can lead to a detectable signal for large enough effective scalar coupling.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:13:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 1 May 2020 09:51:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-05-07
[ [ "Brax", "Philippe", "" ], [ "Heisenberg", "Lavinia", "" ], [ "Kuntz", "Adrien", "" ] ]
We consider the prospect of detecting cubic Galileons through their imprint on gravitational wave signals from a triple system. Namely, we consider a massive Black Hole (BH) surrounded by a binary system of two smaller BHs. We assume that the three BHs acquire a conformal coupling to the scalar field whose origin could be due to cosmology or to the galactic environment. In this case, the massive BH has a Vainshtein radius which englobes the smaller ones and suppresses the scalar effects on the motion of the binary system. On the other hand the two binaries can be outside each other's redressed Vainshtein radius calculated in the background of the central BH, allowing for a perturbative treatment of their dynamics. Despite the strong Vainshtein suppression, we find that the scalar effects on the binary system are slightly enhanced with respect to the static case and a significant amount of power can be emitted in the form of the Galileon scalar field, hence actively participating in the inspiralling phase. We compute the modification to the GW phase and show that it can lead to a detectable signal for large enough effective scalar coupling.
2407.11270
Andrea Di Pinto
Andrea Di Pinto
Charged and Rotating Black Holes in a Melvin-swirling Universe
Master's thesis (Defended 09/07/2024, University of Milan - Universit\`a degli Studi di Milano)
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this thesis, we present new exact solutions of Einstein-Maxwell's field equations, with the most general case being the dyonic Kerr-Newman black hole in a Melvin-swirling universe, obtained analytically using the Ehlers-Harrison transformations of the Ernst formalism. Subsequently, for each possible sub-case, we analyze the presence of singularities and study some physical properties. Finally, we examine their supersymmetry in the context of $N=2$, $d=4$ Supergravity.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:30:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-07-17
[ [ "Di Pinto", "Andrea", "" ] ]
In this thesis, we present new exact solutions of Einstein-Maxwell's field equations, with the most general case being the dyonic Kerr-Newman black hole in a Melvin-swirling universe, obtained analytically using the Ehlers-Harrison transformations of the Ernst formalism. Subsequently, for each possible sub-case, we analyze the presence of singularities and study some physical properties. Finally, we examine their supersymmetry in the context of $N=2$, $d=4$ Supergravity.
2009.03428
Houri Ziaeepour
Houri Ziaeepour
Making a Quantum Universe: Symmetry and Gravity
30 pages; No figure; v3: published version
Universe 2020, 6(11), 194
10.3390/universe6110194
null
gr-qc hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
So far, none of attempts to quantize gravity has led to a satisfactory model that not only describe gravity in the realm of a quantum world, but also its relation to elementary particles and other fundamental forces. Here, we outline the preliminary results for a model of quantum universe, in which gravity is fundamentally and by construction quantic. The model is based on three well motivated assumptions with compelling observational and theoretical evidence: quantum mechanics is valid at all scales; quantum systems are described by their symmetries; universe has infinite independent degrees of freedom. The last assumption means that the Hilbert space of the Universe has $SU(N\rightarrow \infty) \cong \text{area preserving Diff.} (S_2)$ symmetry, which is parameterized by two angular variables. We show that, in the absence of a background spacetime, this Universe is trivial and static. Nonetheless, quantum fluctuations break the symmetry and divide the Universe to subsystems. When a subsystem is singled out as reference -- observer -- and another as clock, two more continuous parameters arise, which can be interpreted as distance and time. We identify the classical spacetime with parameter space of the Hilbert space of the Universe. Therefore, its quantization is meaningless. In this view, the Einstein equation presents the projection of quantum dynamics in the Hilbert space into its parameter space. Finite dimensional symmetries of elementary particles emerge as a consequence of symmetry breaking when the Universe is divided to subsystems/particles, without having any implication for the infinite dimensional symmetry and its associated interaction - perceived as gravity. This explains why gravity is a universal force.
[ { "created": "Mon, 7 Sep 2020 21:15:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:38:04 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:09:23 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-11-29
[ [ "Ziaeepour", "Houri", "" ] ]
So far, none of attempts to quantize gravity has led to a satisfactory model that not only describe gravity in the realm of a quantum world, but also its relation to elementary particles and other fundamental forces. Here, we outline the preliminary results for a model of quantum universe, in which gravity is fundamentally and by construction quantic. The model is based on three well motivated assumptions with compelling observational and theoretical evidence: quantum mechanics is valid at all scales; quantum systems are described by their symmetries; universe has infinite independent degrees of freedom. The last assumption means that the Hilbert space of the Universe has $SU(N\rightarrow \infty) \cong \text{area preserving Diff.} (S_2)$ symmetry, which is parameterized by two angular variables. We show that, in the absence of a background spacetime, this Universe is trivial and static. Nonetheless, quantum fluctuations break the symmetry and divide the Universe to subsystems. When a subsystem is singled out as reference -- observer -- and another as clock, two more continuous parameters arise, which can be interpreted as distance and time. We identify the classical spacetime with parameter space of the Hilbert space of the Universe. Therefore, its quantization is meaningless. In this view, the Einstein equation presents the projection of quantum dynamics in the Hilbert space into its parameter space. Finite dimensional symmetries of elementary particles emerge as a consequence of symmetry breaking when the Universe is divided to subsystems/particles, without having any implication for the infinite dimensional symmetry and its associated interaction - perceived as gravity. This explains why gravity is a universal force.
1610.06822
David Delphenich
D. H. Delphenich
Line geometry and electromagnetism IV: electromagnetic fields as infinitesimal Lorentz transformations
33 pages, continuation of a series
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is first shown that the scalar product on any orthogonal space (V, g) allows one to define linear isomorphisms of the vector spaces of bivectors and 2-forms on V with the underlying vector spaces of the Lie algebra so(p, q) and its dual, respectively. When those isomorphisms are applied to the electromagnetic excitation bivector and field strength 2-form, resp., one can associate various algebraic constructions that pertain to them as bivector fields and 2-forms with corresponding constructions in terms of so(1, 3) and its dual. The subsequent association with corresponding things in line geometry will then become straightforward. In particular, the fields can be represented by motors, such as screws and wrenches, while the Cartan-Killing form on so(1, 3) is isometric to the scalar product on bivectors that gives the Klein quadric. When the space of bivectors (and therefore the space of 2-forms) is given an almost-complex structure (and therefore, a complex structure), one can also represent most of the constructions on the former and its dual in terms of so(3; C) and its dual.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:18:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-10-24
[ [ "Delphenich", "D. H.", "" ] ]
It is first shown that the scalar product on any orthogonal space (V, g) allows one to define linear isomorphisms of the vector spaces of bivectors and 2-forms on V with the underlying vector spaces of the Lie algebra so(p, q) and its dual, respectively. When those isomorphisms are applied to the electromagnetic excitation bivector and field strength 2-form, resp., one can associate various algebraic constructions that pertain to them as bivector fields and 2-forms with corresponding constructions in terms of so(1, 3) and its dual. The subsequent association with corresponding things in line geometry will then become straightforward. In particular, the fields can be represented by motors, such as screws and wrenches, while the Cartan-Killing form on so(1, 3) is isometric to the scalar product on bivectors that gives the Klein quadric. When the space of bivectors (and therefore the space of 2-forms) is given an almost-complex structure (and therefore, a complex structure), one can also represent most of the constructions on the former and its dual in terms of so(3; C) and its dual.
0812.2038
Hideki Maeda
Hideki Maeda, Mokhtar Hassaine, and Cristian Martinez
Lovelock black holes with a nonlinear Maxwell field
9 pages, no figure; v2, references added, published version in Physical Review D
PhysRev.D79.044012,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.044012
CECS-PHY-08/20
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive electrically charged black hole solutions of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet equations with a nonlinear electrodynamics source in $n (\ge 5)$ dimensions. The spacetimes are given as a warped product $M^2 \times K^{n-2}$, where $K^{n-2}$ is a $(n-2)$-dimensional constant curvature space. We establish a generalized Birkhoff's theorem by showing that it is the unique electrically charged solution with this isometry and for which the orbit of the warp factor on $K^{n-2}$ is non-null. An extension of the analysis for full Lovelock gravity is also achieved with a particular attention to the Chern-Simons case.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:54:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:52:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-08-03
[ [ "Maeda", "Hideki", "" ], [ "Hassaine", "Mokhtar", "" ], [ "Martinez", "Cristian", "" ] ]
We derive electrically charged black hole solutions of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet equations with a nonlinear electrodynamics source in $n (\ge 5)$ dimensions. The spacetimes are given as a warped product $M^2 \times K^{n-2}$, where $K^{n-2}$ is a $(n-2)$-dimensional constant curvature space. We establish a generalized Birkhoff's theorem by showing that it is the unique electrically charged solution with this isometry and for which the orbit of the warp factor on $K^{n-2}$ is non-null. An extension of the analysis for full Lovelock gravity is also achieved with a particular attention to the Chern-Simons case.
1808.07829
Yen Chin Ong
B. Eslam Panah, S. H. Hendi, Y. C. Ong
Black Hole Remnant in Massive Gravity
version accepted for publication
Physics of the Dark Universe 27 (2020) 100452
10.1016/j.dark.2019.100452
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The possibility of a nonzero graviton mass has been widely pursued in the literature. In this work we investigate a black hole solution in massive gravity with a degenerate fiducial metric often used in the literature. We find that the end state of Hawking evaporation leads to black hole remnant, which could help to ameliorate the information paradox. We prove that these remnants only exist in anti-de Sitter spacetime. Nevertheless, we speculate on their possible relevance to our Universe as dark matter candidate, in view of the possibility that our Universe could be inherently anti-de Sitter-like, with a transient accelerated expansion phase.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:37:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 Dec 2018 16:10:54 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:26:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-01-07
[ [ "Panah", "B. Eslam", "" ], [ "Hendi", "S. H.", "" ], [ "Ong", "Y. C.", "" ] ]
The possibility of a nonzero graviton mass has been widely pursued in the literature. In this work we investigate a black hole solution in massive gravity with a degenerate fiducial metric often used in the literature. We find that the end state of Hawking evaporation leads to black hole remnant, which could help to ameliorate the information paradox. We prove that these remnants only exist in anti-de Sitter spacetime. Nevertheless, we speculate on their possible relevance to our Universe as dark matter candidate, in view of the possibility that our Universe could be inherently anti-de Sitter-like, with a transient accelerated expansion phase.
gr-qc/0106023
Naresh Dadhich
Naresh Dadhich
Nariai metric is the first example of the singularity free model
LaTeX, 3 pages
null
null
IUCAA-29/2001
gr-qc astro-ph hep-th
null
This is just to point out that the Nariai metric is the first example of the singularity free expanding perfect fluid cosmological model satisfying the weak energy condition, $\rho>0, \rho+p=0$. It is a conformally non-flat Einstein space.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2001 05:19:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Dadhich", "Naresh", "" ] ]
This is just to point out that the Nariai metric is the first example of the singularity free expanding perfect fluid cosmological model satisfying the weak energy condition, $\rho>0, \rho+p=0$. It is a conformally non-flat Einstein space.
1910.01699
Rhiannon Cuttell
Rhiannon Cuttell
Deformed general relativity
Ph.D. thesis, King's College London. Submission date: Nov 2018. Award date: Apr 2019. EThOS ID: uk.bl.ethos.784497. 128 pages, 10 figures. Text overlap with arxiv:1409.1902, arxiv:1806.06791, arXiv:1812.07530, and arxiv:1901.07383
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this thesis, I investigate how to construct a self-consistent model of deformed general relativity using canonical methods and metric variables. The specific deformation of general covariance is predicted by some studies into loop quantum cosmology. I firstly find the minimally-deformed model for a scalar-tensor theory, thereby establishing a classical reference point, and investigate the cosmological effects of a non-minimal coupled scalar field. By treating the deformation perturbatively, I derive the deformed gravitational action which includes the nearest order of curvature corrections. Then working more generally, I derive the deformed scalar-tensor constraint to all orders and I find that the momenta and spatial derivatives from gravity and matter must combine in a very specific form. It suggests that the deformation should be equally affected by matter field derivatives as it is by gravitational curvature. Finally, I derive the deformed gravitational action to all orders, and find how intrinsic and extrinsic curvatures differently affect the deformation. The deformation seems to be required to satisfy a non-linear equation usually found in fluid mechanics.
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Oct 2019 19:35:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-10-07
[ [ "Cuttell", "Rhiannon", "" ] ]
In this thesis, I investigate how to construct a self-consistent model of deformed general relativity using canonical methods and metric variables. The specific deformation of general covariance is predicted by some studies into loop quantum cosmology. I firstly find the minimally-deformed model for a scalar-tensor theory, thereby establishing a classical reference point, and investigate the cosmological effects of a non-minimal coupled scalar field. By treating the deformation perturbatively, I derive the deformed gravitational action which includes the nearest order of curvature corrections. Then working more generally, I derive the deformed scalar-tensor constraint to all orders and I find that the momenta and spatial derivatives from gravity and matter must combine in a very specific form. It suggests that the deformation should be equally affected by matter field derivatives as it is by gravitational curvature. Finally, I derive the deformed gravitational action to all orders, and find how intrinsic and extrinsic curvatures differently affect the deformation. The deformation seems to be required to satisfy a non-linear equation usually found in fluid mechanics.
0811.4570
Roberto Giambo'
Roberto Giamb\`o
Gravitational collapse of homogeneous perfect fluid in HOG theories
LaTeX2e, 13 pages, 10 figures, to appear on J. Math. Phys
J. Math. Phys. 50:012501,2009
10.1063/1.3032755
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This paper investigates the evolution of collapsing FRW models with a scalar field having the potential which arises in the conformal frame of high order gravity theories, coupled to matter described by a perfect fluid with energy density $\rho$ and pressure $p$, obeying a barotropic equation of state. The solutions are shown to evolve generically to a singular state in a finite time and they are used as sources for radiating objects undergoing complete gravitational collapse. Although these singularities may be naked in some special case, it is shown that generically a black hole forms.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:50:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-03-24
[ [ "Giambò", "Roberto", "" ] ]
This paper investigates the evolution of collapsing FRW models with a scalar field having the potential which arises in the conformal frame of high order gravity theories, coupled to matter described by a perfect fluid with energy density $\rho$ and pressure $p$, obeying a barotropic equation of state. The solutions are shown to evolve generically to a singular state in a finite time and they are used as sources for radiating objects undergoing complete gravitational collapse. Although these singularities may be naked in some special case, it is shown that generically a black hole forms.
gr-qc/9404058
null
Bj{\o}rn Jensen
Aspects of the Thermo-Dynamics of a Black Hole with a Topological Defect
13, Oslo-TP-5-94, misprints corrected, to appear in Phys.Lett.B
Phys.Lett.B334:309-314,1994
10.1016/0370-2693(94)90694-7
null
gr-qc
null
Aspects of the thermo-dynamics of a black hole which is either pierced by a cosmic gauge string or contains a global monopole are investigated. We also make some comments on the physical significance of the fact that the gravitational mass carried by a global monopole is negative. We note in particular that the negative monopole mass implies a gravitational super-radiance effect.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Apr 1994 16:14:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Jun 1994 13:43:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-11-01
[ [ "Jensen", "Bjørn", "" ] ]
Aspects of the thermo-dynamics of a black hole which is either pierced by a cosmic gauge string or contains a global monopole are investigated. We also make some comments on the physical significance of the fact that the gravitational mass carried by a global monopole is negative. We note in particular that the negative monopole mass implies a gravitational super-radiance effect.
gr-qc/9501035
Ralf Hecht
Ralf. D Hecht
Mass and Spin of Poincare Gauge Theory
16 pages, plain-tex; to be published in Gen. Rel. Grav
Gen.Rel.Grav. 27 (1995) 537-554
10.1007/BF02105078
null
gr-qc
null
We discuss two expressions for the conserved quantities (energy momentum and angular momentum) of the Poincar\'e Gauge Theory. We show, that the variations of the Hamiltonians, of which the expressions are the respective boundary terms, are well defined, if we choose an appropriate phase space for asymptotic flat gravitating systems. Furthermore, we compare the expressions with others, known from the literature.
[ { "created": "Thu, 26 Jan 1995 17:55:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Hecht", "Ralf. D", "" ] ]
We discuss two expressions for the conserved quantities (energy momentum and angular momentum) of the Poincar\'e Gauge Theory. We show, that the variations of the Hamiltonians, of which the expressions are the respective boundary terms, are well defined, if we choose an appropriate phase space for asymptotic flat gravitating systems. Furthermore, we compare the expressions with others, known from the literature.
1910.12660
Maria Churilova
M. S. Churilova and Z. Stuchlik
Quasinormal modes of black holes in 5D Gauss-Bonnet gravity combined with non-linear electrodynamics
10 pages, 9 figures, revtex4-1
Annals of Physics 418 (2020) 168181
10.1016/j.aop.2020.168181
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Quasinormal modes of black holes were previously calculated in a non-linear electrodynamics and in the Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory. Here we take into consideration both of the above factors and find quasinormal modes of a (massive) scalar field in the background of a black hole in the five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a non-linear electrodynamics having Maxwellian weak-field limit. For the non-linear electrodynamics we considered the high frequency (eikonal) regime of oscillations analytically, while for the lower multipoles the higher order WKB analysis with the help of Pad\'{e} approximants and the time domain integration were used. We found that perturbations of a test scalar field violate the inequality between the damping rate of the least damped mode and the Hawking temperature, known as the Hod's proposal. This does not exclude the situation in which gravitational spectrum may restore the Hod's inequality, so that only the analysis of the full spectrum, including gravitational perturbations, will show if the quasinormal modes we found here for the scalar field can be a counterexample to the Hod's conjecture or not. We also revealed that in such a system, which includes the higher curvature corrections and non-linear electrodynamics, for perturbations of a massive scalar field there exists the phenomenon of the arbitrary long lived quasinormal modes - quasiresonances.
[ { "created": "Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:24:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 23 Dec 2019 09:33:47 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 1 May 2020 12:51:41 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-05-04
[ [ "Churilova", "M. S.", "" ], [ "Stuchlik", "Z.", "" ] ]
Quasinormal modes of black holes were previously calculated in a non-linear electrodynamics and in the Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory. Here we take into consideration both of the above factors and find quasinormal modes of a (massive) scalar field in the background of a black hole in the five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a non-linear electrodynamics having Maxwellian weak-field limit. For the non-linear electrodynamics we considered the high frequency (eikonal) regime of oscillations analytically, while for the lower multipoles the higher order WKB analysis with the help of Pad\'{e} approximants and the time domain integration were used. We found that perturbations of a test scalar field violate the inequality between the damping rate of the least damped mode and the Hawking temperature, known as the Hod's proposal. This does not exclude the situation in which gravitational spectrum may restore the Hod's inequality, so that only the analysis of the full spectrum, including gravitational perturbations, will show if the quasinormal modes we found here for the scalar field can be a counterexample to the Hod's conjecture or not. We also revealed that in such a system, which includes the higher curvature corrections and non-linear electrodynamics, for perturbations of a massive scalar field there exists the phenomenon of the arbitrary long lived quasinormal modes - quasiresonances.
gr-qc/9304002
null
Nguyen Hong Chuong, and Nguyen Van Hoang
Bianchi Cosmological Models in the Minimum Quadratic Poincare Gauge Theory of Gravity
REVTEX, 17 pages, Syracuse University preprint SU-GP-93/3-4
null
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
Within the framework of the minimum quadratic Poincare gauge theory of gravity in the Riemann-Cartan spacetime the dynamics of homogeneous anisotropic Bianchi types I-IX spinning-fluid cosmological models is investigated. A basic equation set for these models is obtained and analyzed. In particular, exact solutions for the Bianchi type-I spinning-fluid and Bianchi type-V perfect-fluid models are found in analytic form.
[ { "created": "Thu, 1 Apr 1993 19:14:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Chuong", "Nguyen Hong", "" ], [ "Van Hoang", "Nguyen", "" ] ]
Within the framework of the minimum quadratic Poincare gauge theory of gravity in the Riemann-Cartan spacetime the dynamics of homogeneous anisotropic Bianchi types I-IX spinning-fluid cosmological models is investigated. A basic equation set for these models is obtained and analyzed. In particular, exact solutions for the Bianchi type-I spinning-fluid and Bianchi type-V perfect-fluid models are found in analytic form.
gr-qc/9412025
Takahiro Tanaka
Misao Sasaki, Takahiro Tanaka and Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Euclidian Vacuum Mode Functions for a Scalar Field on Open De Sitter Spacetime
18 pages, revtex file, 3 uuencoded compressed postscript figures appended at the end
Phys.Rev.D51:2979-2995,1995
10.1103/PhysRevD.51.2979
KUNS 1308
gr-qc
null
Motivated by recent studies of the one-bubble inflationary universe scenario that predicts a low density, negative curvature universe, we investigate the Euclidean vacuum mode functions of a scalar field in a spatially open chart of de Sitter space which is foliated by hyperbolic time slices. When we consider the possibility of an open inflationary universe, we are faced with the problem of the initial condition for the quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field, because the inflationary era should not last too long to lose every information of the initial condition. In the one-bubble scenario in which an open universe is created in an exponentially expanding false vacuum universe triggered by quantum decay of false vacuum, it seems natural that the initial state is the de Sitter-invariant Euclidean vacuum. Here we present explicit expressions for the Euclidean vacuum mode functions in the open chart for a scalar field with arbitrary mass and curvature coupling.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Dec 1994 15:36:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-09
[ [ "Sasaki", "Misao", "" ], [ "Tanaka", "Takahiro", "" ], [ "Yamamoto", "Kazuhiro", "" ] ]
Motivated by recent studies of the one-bubble inflationary universe scenario that predicts a low density, negative curvature universe, we investigate the Euclidean vacuum mode functions of a scalar field in a spatially open chart of de Sitter space which is foliated by hyperbolic time slices. When we consider the possibility of an open inflationary universe, we are faced with the problem of the initial condition for the quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field, because the inflationary era should not last too long to lose every information of the initial condition. In the one-bubble scenario in which an open universe is created in an exponentially expanding false vacuum universe triggered by quantum decay of false vacuum, it seems natural that the initial state is the de Sitter-invariant Euclidean vacuum. Here we present explicit expressions for the Euclidean vacuum mode functions in the open chart for a scalar field with arbitrary mass and curvature coupling.
0803.0905
Woei Chet Lim
A. A. Coley, W. C. Lim, G. Leon
Spherically symmetric cosmology: resource paper
14 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We use the 1+3 frame formalism to write down the evolution equations for spherically symmetric models as a well-posed system of first order PDEs in two variables, suitable for numerical and qualitative analysis.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:39:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-03-07
[ [ "Coley", "A. A.", "" ], [ "Lim", "W. C.", "" ], [ "Leon", "G.", "" ] ]
We use the 1+3 frame formalism to write down the evolution equations for spherically symmetric models as a well-posed system of first order PDEs in two variables, suitable for numerical and qualitative analysis.
2009.01932
Jesus Buitrago
J. Buitrago
Unified Picture of Electromagnetic and Gravitational Forces in Two-Spinor Language
null
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The well known Geodesic Equation of General Relativity is newly formulated in Weyl two-spinor language in a convenient way susceptible of being combined with a set of two-spinor equations, equivalent to the Lorentz Force of Electrodynamics, obtained in previous studies. General spinor equations of motion for a test charged spin 1/2 particle in arbitrary electromagnetic and gravitational fields fields are obtained describing not only spacetime trajectories but also spin precession. For the case of the Schwarzschild metric and radial trajectories, spinor equations unifying gravitational and electric forces are obtained and solved for a weak gravitational field (or long distance from the source).
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Sep 2020 21:25:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-09-07
[ [ "Buitrago", "J.", "" ] ]
The well known Geodesic Equation of General Relativity is newly formulated in Weyl two-spinor language in a convenient way susceptible of being combined with a set of two-spinor equations, equivalent to the Lorentz Force of Electrodynamics, obtained in previous studies. General spinor equations of motion for a test charged spin 1/2 particle in arbitrary electromagnetic and gravitational fields fields are obtained describing not only spacetime trajectories but also spin precession. For the case of the Schwarzschild metric and radial trajectories, spinor equations unifying gravitational and electric forces are obtained and solved for a weak gravitational field (or long distance from the source).
gr-qc/9701015
Serge Massar
S. Massar and R. Parentani
Gravitational Instanton for Black Hole Radiation
10 pages, latex
Phys.Rev.Lett. 78 (1997) 3810-3813
10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.3810
TAUP2403-97
gr-qc
null
Hawking radiation is derived from the existence of a euclidean instanton which lives in the euclidean black hole geometry. Upon taking into account the gravitational field of the instanton itself, its action is exactly equal to one quarter the change in the horizon area. This result also applies to the Schwinger process, the Unruh process, and particle creation in deSitter space. The implications for horizon thermodynamics are discussed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 10 Jan 1997 08:01:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Massar", "S.", "" ], [ "Parentani", "R.", "" ] ]
Hawking radiation is derived from the existence of a euclidean instanton which lives in the euclidean black hole geometry. Upon taking into account the gravitational field of the instanton itself, its action is exactly equal to one quarter the change in the horizon area. This result also applies to the Schwinger process, the Unruh process, and particle creation in deSitter space. The implications for horizon thermodynamics are discussed.
1208.0168
Stephen Casey Mr
Stephen Casey
Optical 2-metrics of Schwarzschild-Tangherlini Spacetimes and the Bohlin-Arnold Duality
10 pages
null
10.1088/0264-9381/29/23/237001
DAMTP-2012-55
gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the projection of null geodesics of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric in n+1 dimensions to the space of orbits of the static Killing vector where the motion of a given light ray is seen to lie in a plane. The projected curves coincide with the unparametrised geodesics of optical 2-metrics and can be equally understood as describing the motion of a non-relativistic particle in a central force. We consider a duality between the projected null curves for pairs of values of n and interpret its mathematical meaning in terms of the optical 2-metrics. The metrics are not projectively equivalent but the correspondence can be exposed in terms of a third order differential equation. We also explore the extension of this notion of duality to the Reissner-Nordstrom case.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Aug 2012 10:39:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-11
[ [ "Casey", "Stephen", "" ] ]
We consider the projection of null geodesics of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric in n+1 dimensions to the space of orbits of the static Killing vector where the motion of a given light ray is seen to lie in a plane. The projected curves coincide with the unparametrised geodesics of optical 2-metrics and can be equally understood as describing the motion of a non-relativistic particle in a central force. We consider a duality between the projected null curves for pairs of values of n and interpret its mathematical meaning in terms of the optical 2-metrics. The metrics are not projectively equivalent but the correspondence can be exposed in terms of a third order differential equation. We also explore the extension of this notion of duality to the Reissner-Nordstrom case.
1003.0239
Bruno Coutinho Mundim
Bruno C. Mundim
A Numerical Study of Boson Star Binaries
184 pages, 47 figures, PhD thesis (University of British Columbia)
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This thesis describes a numerical study of binary boson stars within the context of an approximation to general relativity. The approximation we adopt places certain restrictions on the dynamical variables of general relativity (conformal flatness of the 3-metric), and on the time-slicing of the spacetime (maximal slicing). The resulting modeling problem requires the solution of a coupled nonlinear system of 4 hyperbolic, and 5 elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in three space dimensions and time. We approximately solve this system as an initial-boundary value problem, using finite difference techniques and well known, computationally efficient numerical algorithms such as the multigrid method in the case of the elliptic equations. Careful attention is paid to the issue of code validation, and a key part of the thesis is the demonstration that, as the basic scale of finite difference discretization is reduced, our numerical code generates results that converge to a solution of the continuum system of PDEs as desired. The thesis concludes with a discussion of results from some initial explorations of the orbital dynamics of boson star binaries. In particular, we describe calculations in which motion of such a binary is followed for more than two orbital periods, which is a significant advance over previous studies. We also present results from computations in which the boson stars merge, and where there is evidence for black hole formation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Mar 2010 03:02:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-03-02
[ [ "Mundim", "Bruno C.", "" ] ]
This thesis describes a numerical study of binary boson stars within the context of an approximation to general relativity. The approximation we adopt places certain restrictions on the dynamical variables of general relativity (conformal flatness of the 3-metric), and on the time-slicing of the spacetime (maximal slicing). The resulting modeling problem requires the solution of a coupled nonlinear system of 4 hyperbolic, and 5 elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in three space dimensions and time. We approximately solve this system as an initial-boundary value problem, using finite difference techniques and well known, computationally efficient numerical algorithms such as the multigrid method in the case of the elliptic equations. Careful attention is paid to the issue of code validation, and a key part of the thesis is the demonstration that, as the basic scale of finite difference discretization is reduced, our numerical code generates results that converge to a solution of the continuum system of PDEs as desired. The thesis concludes with a discussion of results from some initial explorations of the orbital dynamics of boson star binaries. In particular, we describe calculations in which motion of such a binary is followed for more than two orbital periods, which is a significant advance over previous studies. We also present results from computations in which the boson stars merge, and where there is evidence for black hole formation.
2202.05092
Rui Niu
Rui Niu, Tao Zhu, Wen Zhao
Testing Lorentz Invariance of Gravity in the Standard Model Extension with GWTC-3
29 pages, 6 figures
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2022/12/011
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Successful detection of gravitational waves has presented a new avenue to explore the nature of gravity. With the cumulative catalog of detected events, we can perform tests on General Relativity from various aspects with increasing precision. In this work, we focus on Lorentz symmetry during propagation of gravitational waves. Considering the dispersion relation in the gauge-invariant linearized gravity sector of the Standard-Model Extension, the anisotropy, birefringence, and dispersion effects will be induced during propagation of gravitational waves because of the Lorentz violating modification, and cause dephasings in waveform received by detectors. With the distorted waveform, we perform full Bayesian inference with confident events in the last gravitational wave catalog. We consider two cases associated with the lowest mass dimension $d=5,6$ which are supposed to have the most significant effects, and place the constraints on the expansion coefficients characterizing the Lorentz violating behavior which have 16 independent components for $d=5$ and 18 components for $d=6$. We do not find any evidence for Lorentz violation in the gravitational wave data, the constraints on the coefficients are on the order of $10^{-15}{\rm m}$ for $d=5$ and $10^{-10}{\rm m^2}$ for $d=6$ respectively.
[ { "created": "Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:30:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:10:20 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-03-07
[ [ "Niu", "Rui", "" ], [ "Zhu", "Tao", "" ], [ "Zhao", "Wen", "" ] ]
Successful detection of gravitational waves has presented a new avenue to explore the nature of gravity. With the cumulative catalog of detected events, we can perform tests on General Relativity from various aspects with increasing precision. In this work, we focus on Lorentz symmetry during propagation of gravitational waves. Considering the dispersion relation in the gauge-invariant linearized gravity sector of the Standard-Model Extension, the anisotropy, birefringence, and dispersion effects will be induced during propagation of gravitational waves because of the Lorentz violating modification, and cause dephasings in waveform received by detectors. With the distorted waveform, we perform full Bayesian inference with confident events in the last gravitational wave catalog. We consider two cases associated with the lowest mass dimension $d=5,6$ which are supposed to have the most significant effects, and place the constraints on the expansion coefficients characterizing the Lorentz violating behavior which have 16 independent components for $d=5$ and 18 components for $d=6$. We do not find any evidence for Lorentz violation in the gravitational wave data, the constraints on the coefficients are on the order of $10^{-15}{\rm m}$ for $d=5$ and $10^{-10}{\rm m^2}$ for $d=6$ respectively.
gr-qc/0409007
Serguei Krasnikov
S. Krasnikov
Counter example to a quantum inequality
Sec. II is completely rewritten: the gulf is discussed between the proven QIs and those used in ruling out exotic spacetimes
Grav.Cosmol. 46 (2006) 195
null
null
gr-qc
null
A `quantum inequality' (a conjectured relation between the energy density of a free quantum field and the time during which this density is observed) has recently been used to rule out some of the macroscopic wormholes and warp drives. I discuss the possibility of generalizing that result to other similar spacetimes and first show that the problem amounts to verification of a slightly different inequality. This new inequality \emph{can} replace the original one, if an additional assumption (concerning homogeneity of the `exotic matter' distribution) is made, and \emph{must} replace it if the assumption is relaxed. Then by an explicit example I show that the `new' inequality breaks down even in a simplest case (a free field in a simply connected two dimensional space). Which suggests that there is no grounds today to consider such spacetimes `unphysical'.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:27:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:22:58 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 25 May 2005 20:35:51 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Krasnikov", "S.", "" ] ]
A `quantum inequality' (a conjectured relation between the energy density of a free quantum field and the time during which this density is observed) has recently been used to rule out some of the macroscopic wormholes and warp drives. I discuss the possibility of generalizing that result to other similar spacetimes and first show that the problem amounts to verification of a slightly different inequality. This new inequality \emph{can} replace the original one, if an additional assumption (concerning homogeneity of the `exotic matter' distribution) is made, and \emph{must} replace it if the assumption is relaxed. Then by an explicit example I show that the `new' inequality breaks down even in a simplest case (a free field in a simply connected two dimensional space). Which suggests that there is no grounds today to consider such spacetimes `unphysical'.
gr-qc/0108074
Jose Antonio Belinchon
J. A. Belinchon, T. Harko, M. K. Mak
Renormalization Group Approach to Causal Viscous Cosmological Models
19 pages. RevTeX4. Revised version. Accepted in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Class.Quant.Grav.19:3003-3015,2002
10.1088/0264-9381/19/11/316
null
gr-qc
null
The renormalization group method is applied to the study of homogeneous and flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker type Universes, filled with a causal bulk viscous cosmological fluid. The starting point of the study is the consideration of the scaling properties of the gravitational field equations, of the causal evolution equation of the bulk viscous pressure and of the equations of state. The requirement of scale invariance imposes strong constraints on the temporal evolution of the bulk viscosity coefficient, temperature and relaxation time, thus leading to the possibility of obtaining the bulk viscosity coefficient-energy density dependence. For a cosmological model with bulk viscosity coefficient proportional to the Hubble parameter, we perform the analysis of the renormalization group flow around the scale invariant fixed point, therefore obtaining the long time behavior of the scale factor.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:26:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 05:28:28 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "Belinchon", "J. A.", "" ], [ "Harko", "T.", "" ], [ "Mak", "M. K.", "" ] ]
The renormalization group method is applied to the study of homogeneous and flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker type Universes, filled with a causal bulk viscous cosmological fluid. The starting point of the study is the consideration of the scaling properties of the gravitational field equations, of the causal evolution equation of the bulk viscous pressure and of the equations of state. The requirement of scale invariance imposes strong constraints on the temporal evolution of the bulk viscosity coefficient, temperature and relaxation time, thus leading to the possibility of obtaining the bulk viscosity coefficient-energy density dependence. For a cosmological model with bulk viscosity coefficient proportional to the Hubble parameter, we perform the analysis of the renormalization group flow around the scale invariant fixed point, therefore obtaining the long time behavior of the scale factor.
0803.2899
Maximiliano Ujevic
Jose D. Polanco, Patricio S. Letelier and Maximiliano Ujevic
Static charged fluid around a massive magnetic dipole
7 pages, 1 figure, revtex. A discussion on frame dragging added. Accepted in PRD
Phys.Rev.D78:024026,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.024026
null
gr-qc astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
An analytical solution of Einstein-Maxwell equations with a static fluid as a source is presented. The spacetime is represented by the axially symmetric Weyl metric and the energy-momentum tensor describes a coupling of a fluid with an electromagnetic field. When appropriate limits are performed we recover the well-known solutions of Gutsunaev-Manko and Schwarzschild. Also, using Eckart's thermodynamics, we calculated the temperature, the mechanical pressure, the charge density and the energy density of the system. The analysis of thermodynamic quantities suggests that the solution can be used to represent a magnetized compact stellar object surrounded by a charged fluid.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:35:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 May 2008 02:08:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Polanco", "Jose D.", "" ], [ "Letelier", "Patricio S.", "" ], [ "Ujevic", "Maximiliano", "" ] ]
An analytical solution of Einstein-Maxwell equations with a static fluid as a source is presented. The spacetime is represented by the axially symmetric Weyl metric and the energy-momentum tensor describes a coupling of a fluid with an electromagnetic field. When appropriate limits are performed we recover the well-known solutions of Gutsunaev-Manko and Schwarzschild. Also, using Eckart's thermodynamics, we calculated the temperature, the mechanical pressure, the charge density and the energy density of the system. The analysis of thermodynamic quantities suggests that the solution can be used to represent a magnetized compact stellar object surrounded by a charged fluid.
2304.10015
Xi-Jing Wang
Xi-Jing Wang, Xiao-Mei Kuang, Yuan Meng, Bin Wang, Jian-Pin Wu
Rings and images of Horndeski hairy black hole illuminated by various thin accretions
21 pages, 13 figures, matching the version published in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 107, 124052 (2023)
10.1103/PhysRevD.107.124052
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We analyze the light rays around a static hairy black hole in Horndeski gravity with the use of ray-tracing procedure. We find that a stronger Horndeski hairy parameter corresponds to larger photon sphere as well as critical impact parameter, and wider ranges of photon ring and lensed ring emissions. These influences can be robustly interpreted from the shape of the effective potential of the photon's radial motion. Based on the distribution of the light rays, we then investigate the optical appearances of the Horndeski hairy black hole surrounded by various thin accretions. Firstly, we consider that the Horndeski hairy black hole is illuminated by the optically and geometrically thin accretion disk. We carefully clarify the contributions from the direct, lensed ring and photon ring intensities to the total observed intensity via the transfer function, which is rarely discussed in this scenario. We find that the Horndeski hair has significant influences on both shadow size and distributions of direct, lensed ring and photon ring brightness in three standard emission profiles. As a result, the rings and images of Horndeski hairy black hole and the origination of their brightness differentiate from those of Schwarzschild black hole (SBH). Then, when the Horndeski hairy black hole is illuminated by thin spherical accretions, the hairy black hole's shadow surrounded by a bright ring is larger than that of SBH, but the brightness of ring is fainter. Similar to that of SBH, the size of hairy black hole shadow does not change as the radial moving of the spherical accretion, and the brightness for the infalling accretion is fainter than that for the static accretion due to the Doppler effect. Therefore, we argue that the black hole image consisting of the shadow and accretion construction could, in theory, reflect the observational differences between the Horndeski hairy black hole and SBH.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:57:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:04:04 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:22:57 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-06-30
[ [ "Wang", "Xi-Jing", "" ], [ "Kuang", "Xiao-Mei", "" ], [ "Meng", "Yuan", "" ], [ "Wang", "Bin", "" ], [ "Wu", "Jian-Pin", "" ] ]
We analyze the light rays around a static hairy black hole in Horndeski gravity with the use of ray-tracing procedure. We find that a stronger Horndeski hairy parameter corresponds to larger photon sphere as well as critical impact parameter, and wider ranges of photon ring and lensed ring emissions. These influences can be robustly interpreted from the shape of the effective potential of the photon's radial motion. Based on the distribution of the light rays, we then investigate the optical appearances of the Horndeski hairy black hole surrounded by various thin accretions. Firstly, we consider that the Horndeski hairy black hole is illuminated by the optically and geometrically thin accretion disk. We carefully clarify the contributions from the direct, lensed ring and photon ring intensities to the total observed intensity via the transfer function, which is rarely discussed in this scenario. We find that the Horndeski hair has significant influences on both shadow size and distributions of direct, lensed ring and photon ring brightness in three standard emission profiles. As a result, the rings and images of Horndeski hairy black hole and the origination of their brightness differentiate from those of Schwarzschild black hole (SBH). Then, when the Horndeski hairy black hole is illuminated by thin spherical accretions, the hairy black hole's shadow surrounded by a bright ring is larger than that of SBH, but the brightness of ring is fainter. Similar to that of SBH, the size of hairy black hole shadow does not change as the radial moving of the spherical accretion, and the brightness for the infalling accretion is fainter than that for the static accretion due to the Doppler effect. Therefore, we argue that the black hole image consisting of the shadow and accretion construction could, in theory, reflect the observational differences between the Horndeski hairy black hole and SBH.
2405.13552
Alexey Dubinsky
Alexey Dubinsky
Quantum gravitational corrections to the Schwarzschild spacetime and quasinormal frequencies
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2405.06390
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Quantum gravitational corrections to the entropy of the Schwarzschild black hole, derived using the Wald entropy formula within an effective field theory framework, were presented in [X. Calmet, F. Kuipers Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 6, 066012]. These corrections result in a Schwarzschild spacetime that is deformed by the quantum correction. However, it is observed that the proposed quantum-corrected metric describes not a black hole but a wormhole. Nevertheless, further expansion of the metric function in terms of the quantum correction parameter yields a well-defined black hole metric whose geometry closely resembles that of a wormhole. We also explore methods for distinguishing between these quantum-corrected spacetimes based on the quasinormal frequencies they emit.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 May 2024 11:40:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-05-24
[ [ "Dubinsky", "Alexey", "" ] ]
Quantum gravitational corrections to the entropy of the Schwarzschild black hole, derived using the Wald entropy formula within an effective field theory framework, were presented in [X. Calmet, F. Kuipers Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 6, 066012]. These corrections result in a Schwarzschild spacetime that is deformed by the quantum correction. However, it is observed that the proposed quantum-corrected metric describes not a black hole but a wormhole. Nevertheless, further expansion of the metric function in terms of the quantum correction parameter yields a well-defined black hole metric whose geometry closely resembles that of a wormhole. We also explore methods for distinguishing between these quantum-corrected spacetimes based on the quasinormal frequencies they emit.
1611.01614
Deng Wang
Deng Wang
Wormholes in a viscous universe
14 pages, 3 figs, accepted in Physics of the Dark Universe
Phys.Dark Univ. 35 (2022) 100944
10.1016/j.dark.2021.100944
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the static and spherically symmetric wormhole spacetime configurations at present time in a viscous universe. Considering three classes of viscous models, i.e., bulk viscosity as a function of Hubble constant $H_0$, present cosmic temperature $T_0$ and dark energy density $\rho_0$, respectively, we obtain several wormhole solutions. Through the analysis for the anisotropic solutions, we conclude that, to some extent, these three classes of viscous models have very high degeneracy with each other, and deviate slightly from the ideal fluid consequence. Subsequently, without the loss of generality, to investigate the traversabilities, energy conditions and stability for the wormhole solution, we study the wormhole solution of the constant redshift function of the viscous $\omega$CDM model with a constant bulk viscosity coefficient. We obtain the following conclusions: the value of traversal velocity decreases for decreasing bulk viscosity, and the traversal velocity for a traveler depends on not only the wormhole geometry but also the effects of cosmological background evolution; the null energy condition will be violated more clearly when the bulk viscosity or the cosmic expansion velocity decreases; for the case of a positive surface energy density, the range of the junction radius decreases and the values of the parameter $\lambda$ are further restricted when the throat radius of the wormhole $r_0/M$ increases, bulk viscosity coefficient $\zeta_0$ decreases and present-day Hubble parameter $H_0$ decreases, respectively; for the case of a negative surface energy density, by increasing $r_0/M$, decreasing $\zeta_0$ and increasing $H_0$, the values of the parameter $\lambda$ are less restricted, one may conclude that the total stability region increases, and the range of the junction radius increases, increases and decreases, respectively. \end{abstract}
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2022-01-10
[ [ "Wang", "Deng", "" ] ]
We study the static and spherically symmetric wormhole spacetime configurations at present time in a viscous universe. Considering three classes of viscous models, i.e., bulk viscosity as a function of Hubble constant $H_0$, present cosmic temperature $T_0$ and dark energy density $\rho_0$, respectively, we obtain several wormhole solutions. Through the analysis for the anisotropic solutions, we conclude that, to some extent, these three classes of viscous models have very high degeneracy with each other, and deviate slightly from the ideal fluid consequence. Subsequently, without the loss of generality, to investigate the traversabilities, energy conditions and stability for the wormhole solution, we study the wormhole solution of the constant redshift function of the viscous $\omega$CDM model with a constant bulk viscosity coefficient. We obtain the following conclusions: the value of traversal velocity decreases for decreasing bulk viscosity, and the traversal velocity for a traveler depends on not only the wormhole geometry but also the effects of cosmological background evolution; the null energy condition will be violated more clearly when the bulk viscosity or the cosmic expansion velocity decreases; for the case of a positive surface energy density, the range of the junction radius decreases and the values of the parameter $\lambda$ are further restricted when the throat radius of the wormhole $r_0/M$ increases, bulk viscosity coefficient $\zeta_0$ decreases and present-day Hubble parameter $H_0$ decreases, respectively; for the case of a negative surface energy density, by increasing $r_0/M$, decreasing $\zeta_0$ and increasing $H_0$, the values of the parameter $\lambda$ are less restricted, one may conclude that the total stability region increases, and the range of the junction radius increases, increases and decreases, respectively. \end{abstract}
2311.00348
Sung-Won Kim
Sung-Won Kim
Wormhole Effective Mass and Gravitational Waves by Binary Systems Containing Wormhole
9 pages, 7 figures
null
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
We considered the generation of gravitational waves by the binary system associated with a wormhole. In the Newtonian limit, the gravitational potential of a wormhole requires the effective mass of the wormhole taking into account radial tension effects. This definition allows us to derive gravitational wave production in homogeneous and heterogeneous binary systems. Therefore, we studied gravitational waves generation by orbiting wormhole-wormhole and wormhole-black hole binary systems before coalescence. Cases involving negative mass require more careful handling. We also calculated the energy loss to gravitational radiation by a particle orbiting around the wormhole and by a particle moving straight through the wormhole mouth, respectively.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Nov 2023 07:43:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Nov 2023 07:11:18 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-11-08
[ [ "Kim", "Sung-Won", "" ] ]
We considered the generation of gravitational waves by the binary system associated with a wormhole. In the Newtonian limit, the gravitational potential of a wormhole requires the effective mass of the wormhole taking into account radial tension effects. This definition allows us to derive gravitational wave production in homogeneous and heterogeneous binary systems. Therefore, we studied gravitational waves generation by orbiting wormhole-wormhole and wormhole-black hole binary systems before coalescence. Cases involving negative mass require more careful handling. We also calculated the energy loss to gravitational radiation by a particle orbiting around the wormhole and by a particle moving straight through the wormhole mouth, respectively.
2103.05039
Ernesto Contreras
A. Ramos, C. Arias, E. Fuenmayor and E. Contreras
Class I polytropes for anisotropic matter
null
Eur. Phys. J. C 81, 203 (2021)
10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09002-1
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work we study class I interior solutions supported by anisotropic polytropes. The generalized Lane--Emden equation compatible with the embedding condition is obtained and solved for a different set of parameters in both the isothermal and non--isothermal regimes. For completeness, the Tolman mass is computed and analysed to some extend. As a complementary study we consider the impact of the Karmarkar condition on the mass and the Tolman mass functions respectively. Comparison with other results in literature are discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Mar 2021 19:50:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-03-10
[ [ "Ramos", "A.", "" ], [ "Arias", "C.", "" ], [ "Fuenmayor", "E.", "" ], [ "Contreras", "E.", "" ] ]
In this work we study class I interior solutions supported by anisotropic polytropes. The generalized Lane--Emden equation compatible with the embedding condition is obtained and solved for a different set of parameters in both the isothermal and non--isothermal regimes. For completeness, the Tolman mass is computed and analysed to some extend. As a complementary study we consider the impact of the Karmarkar condition on the mass and the Tolman mass functions respectively. Comparison with other results in literature are discussed.
1607.03839
David Delphenich
D. H. Delphenich
On the local integrability of almost-product structures defined by space-time metrics
30 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The splitting of the tangent bundle of space-time into temporal and spatial sub-bundles defines an almost-product structure. In particular, any space-time metric can be locally expressed in time-orthogonal form, in such a way that whether or not that almost-product structure is locally generated by a coordinate chart is a matter of the integrability of the Pfaff equation that the temporal 1-form of that expression for the metric defines. When one applies that analysis to the known exact solutions to the Einstein field equations, one finds that many of the common ones are completely-integrable, although some of the physically-interesting ones are not.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:54:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-07-14
[ [ "Delphenich", "D. H.", "" ] ]
The splitting of the tangent bundle of space-time into temporal and spatial sub-bundles defines an almost-product structure. In particular, any space-time metric can be locally expressed in time-orthogonal form, in such a way that whether or not that almost-product structure is locally generated by a coordinate chart is a matter of the integrability of the Pfaff equation that the temporal 1-form of that expression for the metric defines. When one applies that analysis to the known exact solutions to the Einstein field equations, one finds that many of the common ones are completely-integrable, although some of the physically-interesting ones are not.
gr-qc/9901049
Boisseau
B. Boisseau
Dynamics of a relativistic Rankine vortex for a two-constituent superfluid in a weak perturbation of cylindrical symmetry
latex, 16 pages, 0 figure
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
From a recent study of a stationary cylindrical solution for a relativistic two-constituent superfluid at low temperature limit, we propose to specify this solution under the form of a relativistic generalisation of a Rankine vortex (Potential vortex whose the core has a solid body rotation).Then we establish the dynamics of the central line of this vortex by supposing that the deviation from the cylindrical configuration is weak in the neighbourhood of the core of the vortex. In "stiff" material the Nambu-Goto equations are obtained.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:34:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Boisseau", "B.", "" ] ]
From a recent study of a stationary cylindrical solution for a relativistic two-constituent superfluid at low temperature limit, we propose to specify this solution under the form of a relativistic generalisation of a Rankine vortex (Potential vortex whose the core has a solid body rotation).Then we establish the dynamics of the central line of this vortex by supposing that the deviation from the cylindrical configuration is weak in the neighbourhood of the core of the vortex. In "stiff" material the Nambu-Goto equations are obtained.
1903.08921
Juan Mena-Fern\'andez
Juan Mena-Fern\'andez and Luis Manuel Gonz\'alez-Romero
Piecewise polytropic meshing and refinement method for the reconstruction of the neutron star equation of state using tidal deformabilities and constraints in the piecewise polytropic parameters given by the GW170817 event
12 pages, 8 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1901.10851
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we present a new approach to the inverse problem for relativistic stars using the piecewise polytropic parametrization of the equation of state. The algorithm is a piecewise polytropic meshing and refinement method that reconstructs the neutron star equation of state from experimental data of the mass and the tidal Love parameter. We use an initial mesh of 65536 equations of state in a 4-volume of piecewise polytropic parameters that contains most of the candidate equations of state used today. The refinement process drives us to the reconstruction of the equation of state with a certain precision. Using the reconstructed equation of state, we calculate predictions for quasinormal modes and slow rotation parameters. In order to check the meshing and refinement method, we use as input data a few (6) configurations of a given equation of state. We reconstruct the equation of state in a quite good approximation, and then we compare the curves of physical parameters from the original equation of state and the reconstructed one. We obtain a relative difference for all the parameters smaller than 7.5%. We also study the constraints that impose the GW170817 event on the piecewise polytropic parameters $\{{\log_{10}p_1},{\Gamma_1},{\Gamma_2},{\Gamma_3}\}$. We use the waveform model TaylorF2 for the low-spin scenario, and see that the EOSs that lie outside the 90% credible region when ${\bar{\lambda}^{tid}_1}={\bar{\lambda}^{tid}_2}$ define a zone of polytropic parameters that does not depend on ${\Gamma_3}$.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:55:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-03-22
[ [ "Mena-Fernández", "Juan", "" ], [ "González-Romero", "Luis Manuel", "" ] ]
In this paper we present a new approach to the inverse problem for relativistic stars using the piecewise polytropic parametrization of the equation of state. The algorithm is a piecewise polytropic meshing and refinement method that reconstructs the neutron star equation of state from experimental data of the mass and the tidal Love parameter. We use an initial mesh of 65536 equations of state in a 4-volume of piecewise polytropic parameters that contains most of the candidate equations of state used today. The refinement process drives us to the reconstruction of the equation of state with a certain precision. Using the reconstructed equation of state, we calculate predictions for quasinormal modes and slow rotation parameters. In order to check the meshing and refinement method, we use as input data a few (6) configurations of a given equation of state. We reconstruct the equation of state in a quite good approximation, and then we compare the curves of physical parameters from the original equation of state and the reconstructed one. We obtain a relative difference for all the parameters smaller than 7.5%. We also study the constraints that impose the GW170817 event on the piecewise polytropic parameters $\{{\log_{10}p_1},{\Gamma_1},{\Gamma_2},{\Gamma_3}\}$. We use the waveform model TaylorF2 for the low-spin scenario, and see that the EOSs that lie outside the 90% credible region when ${\bar{\lambda}^{tid}_1}={\bar{\lambda}^{tid}_2}$ define a zone of polytropic parameters that does not depend on ${\Gamma_3}$.
gr-qc/0103071
Valeri Frolov
V. Frolov and D. Singh
Quantum Radiation of Uniformly Accelerated Spherical Mirrors
17 pages, no figures, new references added
Class.Quant.Grav.18:3025-3038,2001
10.1088/0264-9381/18/15/316
null
gr-qc
null
We study quantum radiation generated by a uniformly accelerated motion of small spherical mirrors. To obtain Green's function for a scalar massless field we use Wick's rotation. In the Euclidean domain the problem is reduced to finding an electric potential in 4D flat space in the presence of a metallic toroidal boundary. The latter problem is solved by a separation of variables. After performing an inverse Wick's rotation we obtain the Hadamard function in the wave-zone regime and use it to calculate the vacuum fluctuations and the vacuum expectation for the energy density flux in the wave zone.
[ { "created": "Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:47:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:39:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Frolov", "V.", "" ], [ "Singh", "D.", "" ] ]
We study quantum radiation generated by a uniformly accelerated motion of small spherical mirrors. To obtain Green's function for a scalar massless field we use Wick's rotation. In the Euclidean domain the problem is reduced to finding an electric potential in 4D flat space in the presence of a metallic toroidal boundary. The latter problem is solved by a separation of variables. After performing an inverse Wick's rotation we obtain the Hadamard function in the wave-zone regime and use it to calculate the vacuum fluctuations and the vacuum expectation for the energy density flux in the wave zone.
gr-qc/0703091
Jungjai Lee
Jungjai Lee and Hyeong-Chan Kim
Black string and velocity frame dragging
8 pages, no figure, some corrections
Mod.Phys.Lett.A23:305-313,2008
10.1142/S0217732308026418
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
We investigate velocity frame dragging with the boosted Schwarzschild black string solution and the boosted Kaluza-Klein bubble solution, in which a translational symmetry along the boosted $z$-coordinate is implemented. The velocity frame dragging effect can be nullified by the motion of an observer using the boost symmetry along the $z-$coordinate if it is not compact. However, in spacetime with the compact $z-$coordinate, we show that the effect cannot be removed since the compactification breaks the global Lorentz boost symmetry. As a result, the comoving velocity is dependent on $r$ and the momentum parameter along the $z-$coordinate becomes an observer independent characteristic quantity of the black string and bubble solutions. The dragging induces a spherical ergo-region around the black string.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Lee", "Jungjai", "" ], [ "Kim", "Hyeong-Chan", "" ] ]
We investigate velocity frame dragging with the boosted Schwarzschild black string solution and the boosted Kaluza-Klein bubble solution, in which a translational symmetry along the boosted $z$-coordinate is implemented. The velocity frame dragging effect can be nullified by the motion of an observer using the boost symmetry along the $z-$coordinate if it is not compact. However, in spacetime with the compact $z-$coordinate, we show that the effect cannot be removed since the compactification breaks the global Lorentz boost symmetry. As a result, the comoving velocity is dependent on $r$ and the momentum parameter along the $z-$coordinate becomes an observer independent characteristic quantity of the black string and bubble solutions. The dragging induces a spherical ergo-region around the black string.
2210.00007
Oscar Castillo Felisola Dr.
Oscar Castillo-Felisola and Dominic T. Price and Mattia Scomparin
Cadabra and Python algorithms in General Relativity and Cosmology II: Gravitational Waves
32 pages, 3 figures, cadabra code blocks. For associated files, see https://gitlab.com/cdbgr/cadabra-gravity-II
null
10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108748
null
gr-qc cs.MS physics.class-ph physics.comp-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Computer Algebra Systems (CASs) like Cadabra Software play a prominent role in a wide range of research activities in physics and related fields. We show how Cadabra language is easily implemented in the well established Python programming framework, gaining excellent flexibility and customization to address the issue of tensor perturbations in General Relativity. We obtain a performing algorithm to decompose tensorial quantities up to any perturbative order of the metric. The features of our code are tested by discussing some concrete computational issues in research activities related to first/higher-order gravitational waves.
[ { "created": "Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:58:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-05-17
[ [ "Castillo-Felisola", "Oscar", "" ], [ "Price", "Dominic T.", "" ], [ "Scomparin", "Mattia", "" ] ]
Computer Algebra Systems (CASs) like Cadabra Software play a prominent role in a wide range of research activities in physics and related fields. We show how Cadabra language is easily implemented in the well established Python programming framework, gaining excellent flexibility and customization to address the issue of tensor perturbations in General Relativity. We obtain a performing algorithm to decompose tensorial quantities up to any perturbative order of the metric. The features of our code are tested by discussing some concrete computational issues in research activities related to first/higher-order gravitational waves.
1504.03636
Yuri Bonder
Yuri Bonder
Lorentz violation in the gravity sector: The t puzzle
null
Phys. Rev. D 91, 125002 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.125002
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Lorentz violation is a candidate quantum-gravity signal, and the Standard-Model Extension (SME) is a widely used parametrization of such a violation. In the gravitational SME sector, there is an elusive coefficient for which no effects have been found. This is known as the $t$ puzzle and, to date, it has no compelling explanation. This paper analyzes whether there is a fundamental explanation for the $t$ puzzle. To tackle this question, several approaches are followed. Mainly, redefinitions of the dynamical fields are studied, showing that other SME coefficients can be moved to nongravitational sectors. It is also found that the gravity SME sector can be consistently treated \textit{\`a la} Palatini, and that, in the presence of spacetime boundaries, it is possible to correct its action to get the desired equations of motion. Moreover, through a reformulation as a Lanczos-type tensor, some problematic features of the $t$ term, which should arise at the phenomenological level, are revealed. The most important conclusion of the paper is that there is no evidence of a fundamental explanation for the $t$ puzzle, suggesting that it may be linked to the approximations taken at the phenomenological level.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:43:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 May 2015 23:17:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Bonder", "Yuri", "" ] ]
Lorentz violation is a candidate quantum-gravity signal, and the Standard-Model Extension (SME) is a widely used parametrization of such a violation. In the gravitational SME sector, there is an elusive coefficient for which no effects have been found. This is known as the $t$ puzzle and, to date, it has no compelling explanation. This paper analyzes whether there is a fundamental explanation for the $t$ puzzle. To tackle this question, several approaches are followed. Mainly, redefinitions of the dynamical fields are studied, showing that other SME coefficients can be moved to nongravitational sectors. It is also found that the gravity SME sector can be consistently treated \textit{\`a la} Palatini, and that, in the presence of spacetime boundaries, it is possible to correct its action to get the desired equations of motion. Moreover, through a reformulation as a Lanczos-type tensor, some problematic features of the $t$ term, which should arise at the phenomenological level, are revealed. The most important conclusion of the paper is that there is no evidence of a fundamental explanation for the $t$ puzzle, suggesting that it may be linked to the approximations taken at the phenomenological level.
1605.09121
Jie-Xiong Mo
Gu-Qiang Li, Jie-Xiong Mo
Phase transition and thermodynamic geometry of $f(R)$ AdS black holes in the grand canonical ensemble
null
Phys. Rev. D 93, 124021 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.124021
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The phase transition of four-dimensional charged AdS black hole solution in the $R+f(R)$ gravity with constant curvature is investigated in the grand canonical ensemble, where we find novel characteristics quite different from that in canonical ensemble. There exists no critical point for $T-S$ curve while in former research critical point was found for both the $T-S$ curve and $T-r_+$ curve when the electric charge of $f(R)$ black holes is kept fixed. Moreover, we derive the explicit expression for the specific heat, the analog of volume expansion coefficient and isothermal compressibility coefficient when the electric potential of $f(R)$ AdS black hole is fixed. The specific heat $C_\Phi$ encounters a divergence when $0<\Phi<b$ while there is no divergence for the case $\Phi>b$. This finding also differs from the result in the canonical ensemble, where there may be two, one or no divergence points for the specific heat $C_Q$. To examine the phase structure newly found in the grand canonical ensemble, we appeal to the well-known thermodynamic geometry tools and derive the analytic expressions for both the Weinhold scalar curvature and Ruppeiner scalar curvature. It is shown that they diverge exactly where the specific heat $C_\Phi$ diverges.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 May 2016 07:13:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 11 Jun 2016 23:55:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-06-22
[ [ "Li", "Gu-Qiang", "" ], [ "Mo", "Jie-Xiong", "" ] ]
The phase transition of four-dimensional charged AdS black hole solution in the $R+f(R)$ gravity with constant curvature is investigated in the grand canonical ensemble, where we find novel characteristics quite different from that in canonical ensemble. There exists no critical point for $T-S$ curve while in former research critical point was found for both the $T-S$ curve and $T-r_+$ curve when the electric charge of $f(R)$ black holes is kept fixed. Moreover, we derive the explicit expression for the specific heat, the analog of volume expansion coefficient and isothermal compressibility coefficient when the electric potential of $f(R)$ AdS black hole is fixed. The specific heat $C_\Phi$ encounters a divergence when $0<\Phi<b$ while there is no divergence for the case $\Phi>b$. This finding also differs from the result in the canonical ensemble, where there may be two, one or no divergence points for the specific heat $C_Q$. To examine the phase structure newly found in the grand canonical ensemble, we appeal to the well-known thermodynamic geometry tools and derive the analytic expressions for both the Weinhold scalar curvature and Ruppeiner scalar curvature. It is shown that they diverge exactly where the specific heat $C_\Phi$ diverges.
2211.02948
Umananda Dev Goswami
Gayatri Mohan and Umananda Dev Goswami
Galactic rotation curves of spiral galaxies and dark matter in f(R,T) gravity theory
14 pages, 3 figures; published version
null
10.1142/S0219887824500828
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Galactic rotation curve is a powerful indicator of the state of the gravitational field within a galaxy. The flatness of these curves indicates the presence of dark matter in galaxies and their clusters. In this paper, we focus on the possibility of explaining the rotation curves of spiral galaxies without postulating the existence of dark matter in the framework of $f(\mathcal{R},T)$ gravity, where the gravitational Lagrangian is written by an arbitrary function of $\mathcal{R}$, the Ricci scalar and of $T$, the trace of energy-momentum tensor $T_{\mu\nu}$. We derive the gravitational field equations in this gravity theory for the static spherically symmetric spacetime and solve the equations for metric coefficients using a specific model that has minimal coupling between matter and geometry. The orbital motion of a massive test particle moving in a stable circular orbit is considered and the behavior of its tangential velocity with the help of the considered model is studied. We compare the theoretical result predicted by the model with observations of a sample of nineteen galaxies by generating and fitting rotation curves for the test particle to check the viability of the model. It is observed that the model could almost successfully explain the galactic dynamics of these galaxies without the need of dark matter at large distances from the galactic center.
[ { "created": "Sat, 5 Nov 2022 17:25:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 25 Nov 2023 10:16:39 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-11-28
[ [ "Mohan", "Gayatri", "" ], [ "Goswami", "Umananda Dev", "" ] ]
Galactic rotation curve is a powerful indicator of the state of the gravitational field within a galaxy. The flatness of these curves indicates the presence of dark matter in galaxies and their clusters. In this paper, we focus on the possibility of explaining the rotation curves of spiral galaxies without postulating the existence of dark matter in the framework of $f(\mathcal{R},T)$ gravity, where the gravitational Lagrangian is written by an arbitrary function of $\mathcal{R}$, the Ricci scalar and of $T$, the trace of energy-momentum tensor $T_{\mu\nu}$. We derive the gravitational field equations in this gravity theory for the static spherically symmetric spacetime and solve the equations for metric coefficients using a specific model that has minimal coupling between matter and geometry. The orbital motion of a massive test particle moving in a stable circular orbit is considered and the behavior of its tangential velocity with the help of the considered model is studied. We compare the theoretical result predicted by the model with observations of a sample of nineteen galaxies by generating and fitting rotation curves for the test particle to check the viability of the model. It is observed that the model could almost successfully explain the galactic dynamics of these galaxies without the need of dark matter at large distances from the galactic center.
1709.02818
Sante Carloni Dr
Sante Carloni, Daniele Vernieri
The covariant Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations I: The isotropic case
12 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. D 97, 124056 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.124056
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct a covariant version of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations in the case of isotropic sources. The new equations make evident the mathematical problems in the determination of interior solutions of relativistic stellar objects. Using a reconstruction algorithm we find two physically interesting generalisations of previously known stellar interior solutions. The variables that we use also allow an easier formulation of known generating theorems for solutions associated to relativistic stellar objects.
[ { "created": "Fri, 8 Sep 2017 18:01:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-06-27
[ [ "Carloni", "Sante", "" ], [ "Vernieri", "Daniele", "" ] ]
We construct a covariant version of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations in the case of isotropic sources. The new equations make evident the mathematical problems in the determination of interior solutions of relativistic stellar objects. Using a reconstruction algorithm we find two physically interesting generalisations of previously known stellar interior solutions. The variables that we use also allow an easier formulation of known generating theorems for solutions associated to relativistic stellar objects.
1905.00971
Geoffrey Comp\`ere
Geoffrey Comp\`ere, Adrien Fiorucci and Romain Ruzziconi
The $\Lambda$-BMS$_4$ group of dS$_4$ and new boundary conditions for AdS$_4$
42 pages, 1 figure, attached Mathematica notebook, corrigendum version
null
10.1088/1361-6382/ab3d4b
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the dictionary between Bondi and Fefferman-Graham gauges, we identify the analogues of the Bondi news, Bondi mass and Bondi angular momentum aspects at the boundary of generic asymptotically locally (A)dS$_4$ spacetimes. We introduce the $\Lambda$-BMS$_4$ group as the residual symmetry group of the metric in Bondi gauge after boundary gauge fixing. This group consists of infinite-dimensional non-abelian supertranslations and superrotations and it reduces in the asymptotically flat limit to the extended BMS$_4$ group. Furthermore, we present new boundary conditions for asymptotically locally AdS$_4$ spacetimes which admit $\mathbb R$ times the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms as the asymptotic symmetry group. The boundary conditions amount to fix 2 components of the holographic stress-tensor while allowing 2 components of the boundary metric to fluctuate. They correspond to a deformation of a holographic CFT$_3$ which is coupled to a fluctuating spatial metric of fixed area.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 May 2019 21:33:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 4 Sep 2019 12:15:09 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:20:51 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-02-13
[ [ "Compère", "Geoffrey", "" ], [ "Fiorucci", "Adrien", "" ], [ "Ruzziconi", "Romain", "" ] ]
Using the dictionary between Bondi and Fefferman-Graham gauges, we identify the analogues of the Bondi news, Bondi mass and Bondi angular momentum aspects at the boundary of generic asymptotically locally (A)dS$_4$ spacetimes. We introduce the $\Lambda$-BMS$_4$ group as the residual symmetry group of the metric in Bondi gauge after boundary gauge fixing. This group consists of infinite-dimensional non-abelian supertranslations and superrotations and it reduces in the asymptotically flat limit to the extended BMS$_4$ group. Furthermore, we present new boundary conditions for asymptotically locally AdS$_4$ spacetimes which admit $\mathbb R$ times the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms as the asymptotic symmetry group. The boundary conditions amount to fix 2 components of the holographic stress-tensor while allowing 2 components of the boundary metric to fluctuate. They correspond to a deformation of a holographic CFT$_3$ which is coupled to a fluctuating spatial metric of fixed area.
2211.10723
Gerard Hooft 't
Gerard t Hooft
How studying black hole theory may help us to quantise gravity
14 pages, 3 figures, presented at the Conference on "Eternity between and Space and Time", Padova, May 19-21, 2022
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Black holes are more than just odd-looking curiosities in gravity theory. They uniquely intertwine the basic principles of General Relativity with those of Quantum Theory. Just by demanding that they nevertheless obey acceptable laws of dynamics, just like stars and planets, we hit upon strange structures that must play key roles in the quantum effects that we expect in the gravitational force at ultrashort distance scales. It is explained why, in our approach to address the problem of information conservation, the usual expression for the temperature of Hawking's radiation is off by a factor 2.
[ { "created": "Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:37:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:21:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-11-28
[ [ "Hooft", "Gerard t", "" ] ]
Black holes are more than just odd-looking curiosities in gravity theory. They uniquely intertwine the basic principles of General Relativity with those of Quantum Theory. Just by demanding that they nevertheless obey acceptable laws of dynamics, just like stars and planets, we hit upon strange structures that must play key roles in the quantum effects that we expect in the gravitational force at ultrashort distance scales. It is explained why, in our approach to address the problem of information conservation, the usual expression for the temperature of Hawking's radiation is off by a factor 2.
1410.5983
Hugo Ferreira
Hugo R. C. Ferreira, Jorma Louko
Renormalized vacuum polarization on rotating warped AdS3 black holes
25 pages, 2 figures. v2: minor typos corrections, published version
Phys.Rev.D91 (2015), 024038
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.024038
null
gr-qc hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute the renormalized vacuum polarization of a massive scalar field in the Hartle-Hawking state on (2+1)-dimensional rotating, spacelike stretched black hole solutions to Topologically Massive Gravity, surrounded by a Dirichlet mirror that makes the state well defined. The Feynman propagator is written as a mode sum on the complex Riemannian section of the spacetime, and a Hadamard renormalization procedure is implemented by matching to a mode sum on the complex Riemannian section of a rotating Minkowski spacetime. No analytic continuation in the angular momentum parameter is invoked. Selected numerical results are given, demonstrating the numerical efficacy of the method. We anticipate that this method can be extended to wider classes of rotating black hole spacetimes, in particular to the Kerr spacetime in four dimensions.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:38:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:21:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-01-29
[ [ "Ferreira", "Hugo R. C.", "" ], [ "Louko", "Jorma", "" ] ]
We compute the renormalized vacuum polarization of a massive scalar field in the Hartle-Hawking state on (2+1)-dimensional rotating, spacelike stretched black hole solutions to Topologically Massive Gravity, surrounded by a Dirichlet mirror that makes the state well defined. The Feynman propagator is written as a mode sum on the complex Riemannian section of the spacetime, and a Hadamard renormalization procedure is implemented by matching to a mode sum on the complex Riemannian section of a rotating Minkowski spacetime. No analytic continuation in the angular momentum parameter is invoked. Selected numerical results are given, demonstrating the numerical efficacy of the method. We anticipate that this method can be extended to wider classes of rotating black hole spacetimes, in particular to the Kerr spacetime in four dimensions.
2105.12632
Daphne O. Klemme
Vincent Moncrief (1) and Nishanth Gudapati (2) ((1) Yale University, (2) Harvard University)
A Positive-Definite Energy Functional for the Axisymmetric Perturbations of Kerr-Newman Black Holes
131 pages, 0 figures
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
We consider the axisymmetric, linear perturbations of Kerr-Newman black holes, allowing for arbitrarily large (but subextremal) angular momentum and electric charge. By exploiting the famous Carter-Robinson identities, developed previously for the proofs of (stationary) black hole uniqueness results, we construct a positive-definite energy functional for these perturbations and establish its conservation for a class of (coupled, gravitational and electromagnetic) solutions to the linearized field equations. Our analysis utilizes the familiar (Hamiltonian) reduction of the field equations (for axisymmetric geometries) to a system of wave map fields coupled to a 2+1-dimensional Lorentzian metric on the relevant quotient 3-manifold. The propagating `dynamical degrees of freedom' of this system are entirely captured by the wave map fields, which take their values in a four dimensional, negatively curved (complex hyperbolic) Riemannian target space whereas the base-space Lorentzian metric is entirely determined, in our setup, by elliptic constraints and gauge conditions.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 May 2021 15:46:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-05-27
[ [ "Moncrief", "Vincent", "" ], [ "Gudapati", "Nishanth", "" ] ]
We consider the axisymmetric, linear perturbations of Kerr-Newman black holes, allowing for arbitrarily large (but subextremal) angular momentum and electric charge. By exploiting the famous Carter-Robinson identities, developed previously for the proofs of (stationary) black hole uniqueness results, we construct a positive-definite energy functional for these perturbations and establish its conservation for a class of (coupled, gravitational and electromagnetic) solutions to the linearized field equations. Our analysis utilizes the familiar (Hamiltonian) reduction of the field equations (for axisymmetric geometries) to a system of wave map fields coupled to a 2+1-dimensional Lorentzian metric on the relevant quotient 3-manifold. The propagating `dynamical degrees of freedom' of this system are entirely captured by the wave map fields, which take their values in a four dimensional, negatively curved (complex hyperbolic) Riemannian target space whereas the base-space Lorentzian metric is entirely determined, in our setup, by elliptic constraints and gauge conditions.
gr-qc/9304029
Piotr T. Chrusciel
Piotr T. Chrusciel
On completeness of orbits of Killing vector fields
16 pages, Latex, preprint NSF-ITP-93-44
Class.Quant.Grav.10:2091-2102,1993
10.1088/0264-9381/10/10/016
null
gr-qc
null
A Theorem is proved which reduces the problem of completeness of orbits of Killing vector fields in maximal globally hyperbolic, say vacuum, space--times to some properties of the orbits near the Cauchy surface. In particular it is shown that all Killing orbits are complete in maximal developements of asymptotically flat Cauchy data, or of Cauchy data prescribed on a compact manifold. This result gives a significant strengthening of the uniqueness theorems for black holes.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Apr 1993 04:38:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-04-06
[ [ "Chrusciel", "Piotr T.", "" ] ]
A Theorem is proved which reduces the problem of completeness of orbits of Killing vector fields in maximal globally hyperbolic, say vacuum, space--times to some properties of the orbits near the Cauchy surface. In particular it is shown that all Killing orbits are complete in maximal developements of asymptotically flat Cauchy data, or of Cauchy data prescribed on a compact manifold. This result gives a significant strengthening of the uniqueness theorems for black holes.
2209.13829
Alexander Grant
Alexander M. Grant and Jordan Moxon
Flux-balance laws in scalar self-force theory
15+3 pages, 1 figure; v2: corrected typos and added appendix and figure, "matches" published version
Phys. Rev. D 108, 104029 (2023)
10.1103/PhysRevD.108.104029
null
gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The motion of a radiating point particle can be represented by a series of geodesics whose "constants" of motion evolve slowly with time. The evolution of these constants of motion can be determined directly from the self-force equations of motion. In the presence of spacetime symmetries, the situation simplifies: there exist not only constants of motion conjugate to these symmetries, but also conserved currents whose fluxes can be used to determine their evolution. Such a relationship between point-particle motion and fluxes of conserved currents is a flux-balance law. However, there exist constants of motion that are not related to spacetime symmetries, the most notable example of which is the Carter constant in the Kerr spacetime. In this paper, we first present a new approach to flux-balance laws for spacetime symmetries, using the techniques of symplectic currents and symmetry operators, which can also generate more general conserved currents. We then derive flux-balance laws for all constants of motion in the Kerr spacetime, using the fact that the background, geodesic motion is integrable. For simplicity, we restrict derivations in this paper to the scalar self-force problem. While generalizing the discussion in this paper to the gravitational case will be straightforward, there will be additional complications in turning these results into a practical flux-balance law in this case.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:28:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:46:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-11-16
[ [ "Grant", "Alexander M.", "" ], [ "Moxon", "Jordan", "" ] ]
The motion of a radiating point particle can be represented by a series of geodesics whose "constants" of motion evolve slowly with time. The evolution of these constants of motion can be determined directly from the self-force equations of motion. In the presence of spacetime symmetries, the situation simplifies: there exist not only constants of motion conjugate to these symmetries, but also conserved currents whose fluxes can be used to determine their evolution. Such a relationship between point-particle motion and fluxes of conserved currents is a flux-balance law. However, there exist constants of motion that are not related to spacetime symmetries, the most notable example of which is the Carter constant in the Kerr spacetime. In this paper, we first present a new approach to flux-balance laws for spacetime symmetries, using the techniques of symplectic currents and symmetry operators, which can also generate more general conserved currents. We then derive flux-balance laws for all constants of motion in the Kerr spacetime, using the fact that the background, geodesic motion is integrable. For simplicity, we restrict derivations in this paper to the scalar self-force problem. While generalizing the discussion in this paper to the gravitational case will be straightforward, there will be additional complications in turning these results into a practical flux-balance law in this case.
1910.09280
M. D. Maia
Ivan S. Ferreira, C. Frajuca, Nadja S. Magalhaes, M. D. Maia, Claudio M. G. Sousa
The Laser Gravitational Compass
Latex, four pages, no figures
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Using the observational properties of Einstein's gravitational field it is shown that a minimum of four non-coplanar mass probes are necessary for the Michelson and Morley interferometer to detect gravitational waves within the context of General Relativity. With fewer probes, some alternative theories of gravitation can also explain the observations. The conversion of the existing gravitational wave detectors to four probes is also suggested.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:03:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-10-22
[ [ "Ferreira", "Ivan S.", "" ], [ "Frajuca", "C.", "" ], [ "Magalhaes", "Nadja S.", "" ], [ "Maia", "M. D.", "" ], [ "Sousa", "Claudio M. G.", "" ] ]
Using the observational properties of Einstein's gravitational field it is shown that a minimum of four non-coplanar mass probes are necessary for the Michelson and Morley interferometer to detect gravitational waves within the context of General Relativity. With fewer probes, some alternative theories of gravitation can also explain the observations. The conversion of the existing gravitational wave detectors to four probes is also suggested.
gr-qc/9703016
null
Roustam M. Zalaletdinov (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London and Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent)
Averaging Problem in General Relativity, Macroscopic Gravity and Using Einstein's Equations in Cosmology
16 pages, RevTeX, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Bull.Astron.Soc.India 25 (1997) 401-416
null
QMW-AU-96018 (March 1996)
gr-qc astro-ph
null
The averaging problem in general relativity is briefly discussed. A new setting of the problem as that of macroscopic description of gravitation is proposed. A covariant space-time averaging procedure is described. The structure of the geometry of macroscopic space-time, which follows from averaging Cartan's structure equations, is described and the correlation tensors present in the theory are discussed. The macroscopic field equations (averaged Einstein's equations) derived in the framework of the approach are presented and their structure is analysed. The correspondence principle for macroscopic gravity is formulated and a definition of the stress-energy tensor for the macroscopic gravitational field is proposed. It is shown that the physical meaning of using Einstein's equations with a hydrodynamic stress-energy tensor in looking for cosmological models means neglecting all gravitational field correlations. The system of macroscopic gravity equations to be solved when the correlations are taken into consideration is given and described.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Mar 1997 19:01:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Zalaletdinov", "Roustam M.", "", "Queen Mary and Westfield College, London and\n Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent" ] ]
The averaging problem in general relativity is briefly discussed. A new setting of the problem as that of macroscopic description of gravitation is proposed. A covariant space-time averaging procedure is described. The structure of the geometry of macroscopic space-time, which follows from averaging Cartan's structure equations, is described and the correlation tensors present in the theory are discussed. The macroscopic field equations (averaged Einstein's equations) derived in the framework of the approach are presented and their structure is analysed. The correspondence principle for macroscopic gravity is formulated and a definition of the stress-energy tensor for the macroscopic gravitational field is proposed. It is shown that the physical meaning of using Einstein's equations with a hydrodynamic stress-energy tensor in looking for cosmological models means neglecting all gravitational field correlations. The system of macroscopic gravity equations to be solved when the correlations are taken into consideration is given and described.
gr-qc/0003115
Robin W. Tucker
Simon J. Clark, Robin W. Tucker
Gauge Symmetry and Gravito-Electromagnetism
29 pages no-figs
Class.Quant.Grav.17:4125-4158,2000
10.1088/0264-9381/17/19/311
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
A tensor description of perturbative Einsteinian gravity about an arbitrary background spacetime is developed. By analogy with the covariant laws of electromagnetism in spacetime, gravito-electromagnetic potentials and fields are defined to emulate electromagnetic gauge transformations under substitutions belonging to the gauge symmetry group of perturbative gravitation. These definitions have the advantage that on a flat background, with the aid of a covariantly constant timelike vector field, a subset of the linearised gravitational field equations can be written in a form that is fully analogous to Maxwell's equations (without awkward factors of 4 and extraneous tensor fields). It is shown how the remaining equations in the perturbed gravitational system restrict the time dependence of solutions to these equations and thereby prohibit the existence of propagating vector fields. The induced gravito-electromagnetic Lorentz force on a test particle is evaluated in terms of these fields together with the torque on a small gyroscope. It is concluded that the analogy of perturbative gravity to Maxwell's description of electromagnetism can be valuable for (quasi-)stationary gravitational phenomena but that the analogy has its limitations.
[ { "created": "Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:18:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:35:58 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Clark", "Simon J.", "" ], [ "Tucker", "Robin W.", "" ] ]
A tensor description of perturbative Einsteinian gravity about an arbitrary background spacetime is developed. By analogy with the covariant laws of electromagnetism in spacetime, gravito-electromagnetic potentials and fields are defined to emulate electromagnetic gauge transformations under substitutions belonging to the gauge symmetry group of perturbative gravitation. These definitions have the advantage that on a flat background, with the aid of a covariantly constant timelike vector field, a subset of the linearised gravitational field equations can be written in a form that is fully analogous to Maxwell's equations (without awkward factors of 4 and extraneous tensor fields). It is shown how the remaining equations in the perturbed gravitational system restrict the time dependence of solutions to these equations and thereby prohibit the existence of propagating vector fields. The induced gravito-electromagnetic Lorentz force on a test particle is evaluated in terms of these fields together with the torque on a small gyroscope. It is concluded that the analogy of perturbative gravity to Maxwell's description of electromagnetism can be valuable for (quasi-)stationary gravitational phenomena but that the analogy has its limitations.
1306.4400
Alberto Diez-Tejedor
Alberto Diez-Tejedor and Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales
No-go theorem for static scalar field dark matter halos with no Noether charges
6 pages, no figures. The Appendix A does not appear in the printed version
Phys. Rev. D 88, 067302 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.067302
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Classical scalar fields have been considered as a possible effective description of dark matter. We show that, for any metric theory of gravity, no static, spherically symmetric, regular, spatially localized, attractive, stable spacetime configuration can be sourced by the coherent excitation of a scalar field with positive definite energy density and no Noether charges. In the weak-field regime the result also applies for configurations with a repulsive gravitational potential. This extends Derrick's theorem to the case of a general (non-canonical) scalar field, including the self-gravitational effects. Some possible ways out are briefly discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:48:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:50:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-09-27
[ [ "Diez-Tejedor", "Alberto", "" ], [ "Gonzalez-Morales", "Alma X.", "" ] ]
Classical scalar fields have been considered as a possible effective description of dark matter. We show that, for any metric theory of gravity, no static, spherically symmetric, regular, spatially localized, attractive, stable spacetime configuration can be sourced by the coherent excitation of a scalar field with positive definite energy density and no Noether charges. In the weak-field regime the result also applies for configurations with a repulsive gravitational potential. This extends Derrick's theorem to the case of a general (non-canonical) scalar field, including the self-gravitational effects. Some possible ways out are briefly discussed.
2401.17106
Roman Konoplya
R. A. Konoplya
Two Regimes of Asymptotic Fall-off of a Massive Scalar Field in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter Spacetime
12 pages, 10 figures, revtex, new material and references added, the version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The decay behavior of a massless scalar field in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime is well-known to follow an exponential law at asymptotically late times $t \rightarrow \infty$. In contrast, a massive scalar field in the asymptotically flat Schwarzschild background exhibits a decay with oscillatory (sinusoidal) tails enveloped by a power law. We demonstrate that the asymptotic decay of a massive scalar field in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime is exponential. Specifically, if $\mu M \gg 1$, where $\mu$ and $M$ represent the mass of the field and the black hole, respectively, the exponential decay is also oscillatory. Conversely, in the regime of small $\mu M$, the decay is purely exponential without oscillations. This distinction in decay regimes underscores the fact that, for asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes, a particular branch of quasinormal modes, instead of a "tail", governs the decay at asymptotically late times. There are two branches of quasinormal modes for the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime: the modes of an asymptotically flat black hole corrected by a non-zero $\Lambda$-term, and the modes of an empty de Sitter spacetime corrected by the presence of a black hole. We show that the latter branch is responsible for the asymptotic decay. When $\mu M$ is small, the modes of pure de Sitter spacetime are purely imaginary (non-oscillatory), while at intermediate and large $\mu M$ they have both real and imaginary parts, what produces the two pictures of the asymptotic decay. In addition, we show that the asymptotic decay of charged and higher dimensional black hole is also exponential.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:42:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 4 Feb 2024 15:33:09 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Feb 2024 10:52:12 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:02:15 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2024-04-16
[ [ "Konoplya", "R. A.", "" ] ]
The decay behavior of a massless scalar field in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime is well-known to follow an exponential law at asymptotically late times $t \rightarrow \infty$. In contrast, a massive scalar field in the asymptotically flat Schwarzschild background exhibits a decay with oscillatory (sinusoidal) tails enveloped by a power law. We demonstrate that the asymptotic decay of a massive scalar field in the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime is exponential. Specifically, if $\mu M \gg 1$, where $\mu$ and $M$ represent the mass of the field and the black hole, respectively, the exponential decay is also oscillatory. Conversely, in the regime of small $\mu M$, the decay is purely exponential without oscillations. This distinction in decay regimes underscores the fact that, for asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes, a particular branch of quasinormal modes, instead of a "tail", governs the decay at asymptotically late times. There are two branches of quasinormal modes for the Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime: the modes of an asymptotically flat black hole corrected by a non-zero $\Lambda$-term, and the modes of an empty de Sitter spacetime corrected by the presence of a black hole. We show that the latter branch is responsible for the asymptotic decay. When $\mu M$ is small, the modes of pure de Sitter spacetime are purely imaginary (non-oscillatory), while at intermediate and large $\mu M$ they have both real and imaginary parts, what produces the two pictures of the asymptotic decay. In addition, we show that the asymptotic decay of charged and higher dimensional black hole is also exponential.
2212.13561
Alexander Ganz
Alexander Ganz, Paul Martens, Shinji Mukohyama, Ryo Namba
Bouncing Cosmology in VCDM
15 pages, 8 figures; accepted version
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2023/04/060
RIKEN-iTHEMS-Report-22
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We construct an asymmetric bouncing scenario within the VCDM model - also known as type-II minimally modified gravity -, a modified gravity theory with two local physical degrees of freedom. The scenario is exempt of any ghost or gradient instability, ad-hoc matching conditions or anisotropic stress issue (BKL instability). It moreover succeeds in generating the cosmological perturbations compatible with the observations. The scalar spectral index can be adapted by the choice of the equation of state of the matter sector and the form of the VCDM potential leading to an almost scale-invariant power spectrum. Satisfying the CMB bounds on the tensor-to-scalar ratio leads to a blue tensor spectrum.
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2023-04-28
[ [ "Ganz", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Martens", "Paul", "" ], [ "Mukohyama", "Shinji", "" ], [ "Namba", "Ryo", "" ] ]
We construct an asymmetric bouncing scenario within the VCDM model - also known as type-II minimally modified gravity -, a modified gravity theory with two local physical degrees of freedom. The scenario is exempt of any ghost or gradient instability, ad-hoc matching conditions or anisotropic stress issue (BKL instability). It moreover succeeds in generating the cosmological perturbations compatible with the observations. The scalar spectral index can be adapted by the choice of the equation of state of the matter sector and the form of the VCDM potential leading to an almost scale-invariant power spectrum. Satisfying the CMB bounds on the tensor-to-scalar ratio leads to a blue tensor spectrum.
1508.01429
Asoke Sen Dr.
Saswati Roy and A. K. Sen
Deflection of light ray due to a charged body using Material Medium Approach
15 pages, 7 figures
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The gravitational deflection of light ray is an important prediction of General Theory of Relativity. In this paper we develop analytical expression of the deflection of light ray without any weak field approximation due to a charged gravitational body represented by Reissner_Nordstr\"om (RN) and Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) space time geometry, using material medium approach. It is concluded that although both the geometries represent the charged, non-rotating, spherically symmetric gravitating body, but the effect of charge on the gravitational deflection is just opposite to each other. The gravitational deflection decreases with charge in the RN geometry and increases with charge in the JNW geometry. The calculations obtained here are compared with other methods done by different authors. The formalism is applied to an arbitrary selected pulsar PSRB1937+21 as a gravitating body, as a test case.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:14:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:02:41 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 1 Jun 2017 18:18:48 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-06-05
[ [ "Roy", "Saswati", "" ], [ "Sen", "A. K.", "" ] ]
The gravitational deflection of light ray is an important prediction of General Theory of Relativity. In this paper we develop analytical expression of the deflection of light ray without any weak field approximation due to a charged gravitational body represented by Reissner_Nordstr\"om (RN) and Janis-Newman-Winicour (JNW) space time geometry, using material medium approach. It is concluded that although both the geometries represent the charged, non-rotating, spherically symmetric gravitating body, but the effect of charge on the gravitational deflection is just opposite to each other. The gravitational deflection decreases with charge in the RN geometry and increases with charge in the JNW geometry. The calculations obtained here are compared with other methods done by different authors. The formalism is applied to an arbitrary selected pulsar PSRB1937+21 as a gravitating body, as a test case.
gr-qc/9712018
Shin'ji Mukouyama
Shinji Mukohyama, Masafumi Seriu and Hideo Kodama
Thermodynamics of entanglement in Schwarzschild spacetime
27 pages, Latex file, 7 figures; revised to clarify our choice of the state and to add references. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 064001
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.064001
YITP-97-63
gr-qc
null
Extending the analysis in our previous paper, we construct the entanglement thermodynamics for a massless scalar field on the Schwarzschild spacetime. Contrary to the flat case, the entanglement energy $E_{ent}$ turns out to be proportional to area radius of the boundary if it is near the horizon. This peculiar behavior of $E_{ent}$ can be understood by the red-shift effect caused by the curved background. Combined with the behavior of the entanglement entropy, this result yields, quite surprisingly, the entanglement thermodynamics of the same structure as the black hole thermodynamics. On the basis of these results, we discuss the relevance of the concept of entanglement as the microscopic origin of the black hole thermodynamics.
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2009-10-30
[ [ "Mukohyama", "Shinji", "" ], [ "Seriu", "Masafumi", "" ], [ "Kodama", "Hideo", "" ] ]
Extending the analysis in our previous paper, we construct the entanglement thermodynamics for a massless scalar field on the Schwarzschild spacetime. Contrary to the flat case, the entanglement energy $E_{ent}$ turns out to be proportional to area radius of the boundary if it is near the horizon. This peculiar behavior of $E_{ent}$ can be understood by the red-shift effect caused by the curved background. Combined with the behavior of the entanglement entropy, this result yields, quite surprisingly, the entanglement thermodynamics of the same structure as the black hole thermodynamics. On the basis of these results, we discuss the relevance of the concept of entanglement as the microscopic origin of the black hole thermodynamics.
1802.03739
Wen-Biao Han
Xiao-Jun Yue, Wen-Biao Han, Xian Chen
Dark matter: an efficient catalyst for intermediate-mass-ratio-inspiral events
17 pages, 10 figures
ApJ, 874: 34, 2019
10.3847/1538-4357/ab06f6
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Gravitational waves (GWs) can be produced if a stellar compact object, such as a black hole (BH) or neutron star, inspirals into an intermediate-massive black hole (IMBH) of $(10^3 \sim 10^5)\,M_\odot$. Such a system may be produced in the center of a globular cluster (GC) or a nuclear star cluster (NSC), and is known as an intermediate- or extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (IMRI or EMRI). Motivated by the recent suggestions that dark matter minispikes could form around IMBHs, we study the effect of dynamical friction against DM on the merger rate of IMRIs/EMRIs. We find that the merger timescale of IMBHs with BHs and NSs would be shortened by two to three orders of magnitude. As a result, the event rate of IMRIs/EMRIs are enhanced by orders of magnitude relative to that in the case of no DM minispikes. In the most extreme case where IMBHs are small and the DM minispikes have a steep density profile, all the BH in GCs and NSCs might be exhausted so that the mergers with NSs would dominate the current IMRIs/EMRIs. Our results suggest that the mass function of the IMBHs below $10^4 \,M_\odot$ would bear imprints of the distribution of DM minispikes because these low-mass IMBHs can grow efficiently in the presence of DM minispikes by merging with BHs and NSs. Future space-based GW detectors, like LISA, Taiji, and Tianqin, can measure the IMRI/EMRI rate and hence constrain the distribution of DM around IMBHs.
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2019-04-02
[ [ "Yue", "Xiao-Jun", "" ], [ "Han", "Wen-Biao", "" ], [ "Chen", "Xian", "" ] ]
Gravitational waves (GWs) can be produced if a stellar compact object, such as a black hole (BH) or neutron star, inspirals into an intermediate-massive black hole (IMBH) of $(10^3 \sim 10^5)\,M_\odot$. Such a system may be produced in the center of a globular cluster (GC) or a nuclear star cluster (NSC), and is known as an intermediate- or extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (IMRI or EMRI). Motivated by the recent suggestions that dark matter minispikes could form around IMBHs, we study the effect of dynamical friction against DM on the merger rate of IMRIs/EMRIs. We find that the merger timescale of IMBHs with BHs and NSs would be shortened by two to three orders of magnitude. As a result, the event rate of IMRIs/EMRIs are enhanced by orders of magnitude relative to that in the case of no DM minispikes. In the most extreme case where IMBHs are small and the DM minispikes have a steep density profile, all the BH in GCs and NSCs might be exhausted so that the mergers with NSs would dominate the current IMRIs/EMRIs. Our results suggest that the mass function of the IMBHs below $10^4 \,M_\odot$ would bear imprints of the distribution of DM minispikes because these low-mass IMBHs can grow efficiently in the presence of DM minispikes by merging with BHs and NSs. Future space-based GW detectors, like LISA, Taiji, and Tianqin, can measure the IMRI/EMRI rate and hence constrain the distribution of DM around IMBHs.
1506.09164
Jedrzej \'Swie\.zewski
Norbert Bodendorfer, Jerzy Lewandowski, Jedrzej \'Swie\.zewski
General relativity in the radial gauge: Reduced phase space and canonical structure
23 pages, 1 figure; matches published version
Phys. Rev. D 92, 084041 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.084041
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Firstly, we present a reformulation of the standard canonical approach to spherically symmetric systems in which the radial gauge is imposed. This is done via the gauge unfixing technique, which serves as the exposition in the context of the radial gauge. Secondly, we apply the same techniques to the full theory, without assuming spherical symmetry, resulting in a reduced phase space description of general relativity. The canonical structure of the theory is analyzed.
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2015-11-20
[ [ "Bodendorfer", "Norbert", "" ], [ "Lewandowski", "Jerzy", "" ], [ "Świeżewski", "Jedrzej", "" ] ]
Firstly, we present a reformulation of the standard canonical approach to spherically symmetric systems in which the radial gauge is imposed. This is done via the gauge unfixing technique, which serves as the exposition in the context of the radial gauge. Secondly, we apply the same techniques to the full theory, without assuming spherical symmetry, resulting in a reduced phase space description of general relativity. The canonical structure of the theory is analyzed.
gr-qc/0202080
T. Padmanabhan
T.Padmanabhan
Entropy and energy of a class of spacetimes with horizon: a general derivation
revtex4; 3 pages
null
null
IUCAA preprint 06/2002
gr-qc hep-th
null
Euclidean continuation of several Lorentzian spacetimes with horizons requires treating the Euclidean time coordinate to be periodic with some period $\beta$. Such spacetimes (Schwarzschild, deSitter,Rindler .....) allow a temperature $T=\beta^{-1}$ to be associated with the horizon. I construct a canonical ensemble of a subclass of such spacetimes with a fixed value for $\beta$ and evaluate the partition function $Z(\beta)$. For spherically symmetric spacetimes with a horizon at r=a, the partition function has the generic form $Z\propto \exp[S-\beta E]$, where $S= (1/4) 4\pi a^2$ and $|E|=(a/2)$. Both S and E are determined entirely by the properties of the metric near the horizon. This analysis reproduces the conventional result for the blackhole spacetimes and provides a simple and consistent interpretation of entropy and energy for deSitter spacetime. For the Rindler spacetime the entropy per unit transverse area turns out to be (1/4) while the energy is zero. The implications are discussed.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:36:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-08-31
[ [ "Padmanabhan", "T.", "" ] ]
Euclidean continuation of several Lorentzian spacetimes with horizons requires treating the Euclidean time coordinate to be periodic with some period $\beta$. Such spacetimes (Schwarzschild, deSitter,Rindler .....) allow a temperature $T=\beta^{-1}$ to be associated with the horizon. I construct a canonical ensemble of a subclass of such spacetimes with a fixed value for $\beta$ and evaluate the partition function $Z(\beta)$. For spherically symmetric spacetimes with a horizon at r=a, the partition function has the generic form $Z\propto \exp[S-\beta E]$, where $S= (1/4) 4\pi a^2$ and $|E|=(a/2)$. Both S and E are determined entirely by the properties of the metric near the horizon. This analysis reproduces the conventional result for the blackhole spacetimes and provides a simple and consistent interpretation of entropy and energy for deSitter spacetime. For the Rindler spacetime the entropy per unit transverse area turns out to be (1/4) while the energy is zero. The implications are discussed.
1708.08797
Constantinos Skordis
Constantinos Skordis
Conditions for equivalence of static spherically symmetric spacetimes to almost Friedman-Robertson-Walker
12 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We determine the conditions under which a static spherically symmetric spacetime metric is equivalent to a perturbed Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric. We construct the correspondence between the two metrics and discuss a simple application.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:48:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-30
[ [ "Skordis", "Constantinos", "" ] ]
We determine the conditions under which a static spherically symmetric spacetime metric is equivalent to a perturbed Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric. We construct the correspondence between the two metrics and discuss a simple application.
1012.0908
Stefan Hild
S. Hild, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese, P. Amaro-Seoane, N. Andersson, K. Arun, F. Barone, B. Barr, M. Barsuglia, M. Beker, N. Beveridge, S. Birindelli, S. Bose, L. Bosi, S. Braccini, C. Bradaschia, T. Bulik, E. Calloni, G. Cella, E. Chassande Mottin, S. Chelkowski, A. Chincarini, J. Clark, E. Coccia, C. Colacino, J. Colas, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, S. Danilishin, K. Danzmann, R. De Salvo, T. Dent, R. De Rosa, L. Di Fiore, A. Di Virgilio, M. Doets, V. Fafone, P. Falferi, R. Flaminio, J. Franc, F. Frasconi, A. Freise, D. Friedrich, P. Fulda, J. Gair, G. Gemme, E. Genin, A. Gennai, A. Giazotto, K. Glampedakis, C. Gr\"af, M. Granata, H. Grote, G. Guidi, A. Gurkovsky, G. Hammond, M. Hannam, J. Harms, D. Heinert, M. Hendry, I. Heng, E. Hennes, J. Hough, S. Husa, S. Huttner, G. Jones, F. Khalili, K. Kokeyama, K. Kokkotas, B. Krishnan, T.G.F. Li, M. Lorenzini, H. L\"uck, E. Majorana, I. Mandel, V. Mandic, M. Mantovani, I. Martin, C. Michel, Y. Minenkov, N. Morgado, S. Mosca, B Mours, H. M\"uller-Ebhardt, P. Murray, R. Nawrodt, J. Nelson, R. Oshaughnessy, C. D. Ott, C. Palomba, A. Paoli, G. Parguez, A. Pasqualetti, R. Passaquieti, D. Passuello, L. Pinard, W. Plastino, R. Poggiani1, P. Popolizio, M. Prato, M. Punturo, P. Puppo, D. Rabeling, P. Rapagnani, J. Read, T. Regimbau, H. Rehbein, S. Reid, F. Ricci, F. Richard, A. Rocchi, S. Rowan, A. R\"udiger, L. Santamar\'ia, B. Sassolas, B. Sathyaprakash, R. Schnabel, C. Schwarz, P. Seidel, A. Sintes, K. Somiya, F. Speirits, K. Strain, S Strigin, P. Sutton, S. Tarabrin, A. Th\"uring, J. van den Brand, M. van Veggel, C. van den Broeck, A. Vecchio, J. Veitch, F. Vetrano, A. Vicere, S. Vyatchanin, B. Willke, G. Woan, K. Yamamoto
Sensitivity Studies for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories
13 pages, 7 pictures
null
10.1088/0264-9381/28/9/094013
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are expected to directly observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin. The Einstein Telescope, a third-generation gravitational wave detector, has been proposed in order to fully open up the emerging field of gravitational wave astronomy. In this article we describe sensitivity models for the Einstein Telescope and investigate potential limits imposed by fundamental noise sources. A special focus is set on evaluating the frequency band below 10Hz where a complex mixture of seismic, gravity gradient, suspension thermal and radiation pressure noise dominates. We develop the most accurate sensitivity model, referred to as ET-D, for a third-generation detector so far, including the most relevant fundamental noise contributions.
[ { "created": "Sat, 4 Dec 2010 12:17:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-20
[ [ "Hild", "S.", "" ], [ "Abernathy", "M.", "" ], [ "Acernese", "F.", "" ], [ "Amaro-Seoane", "P.", "" ], [ "Andersson", "N.", "" ], [ "Arun", "K.", "" ], [ "Barone", "F.", "" ], [ "Barr", "B.", "" ], [ "Barsuglia", "M.", "" ], [ "Beker", "M.", "" ], [ "Beveridge", "N.", "" ], [ "Birindelli", "S.", "" ], [ "Bose", "S.", "" ], [ "Bosi", "L.", "" ], [ "Braccini", "S.", "" ], [ "Bradaschia", "C.", "" ], [ "Bulik", "T.", "" ], [ "Calloni", "E.", "" ], [ "Cella", "G.", "" ], [ "Mottin", "E. Chassande", "" ], [ "Chelkowski", "S.", "" ], [ "Chincarini", "A.", "" ], [ "Clark", "J.", "" ], [ "Coccia", "E.", "" ], [ "Colacino", "C.", "" ], [ "Colas", "J.", "" ], [ "Cumming", "A.", "" ], [ "Cunningham", "L.", "" ], [ "Cuoco", "E.", "" ], [ "Danilishin", "S.", "" ], [ "Danzmann", "K.", "" ], [ "De Salvo", "R.", "" ], [ "Dent", "T.", "" ], [ "De Rosa", "R.", "" ], [ "Di Fiore", "L.", "" ], [ "Di Virgilio", "A.", "" ], [ "Doets", "M.", "" ], [ "Fafone", "V.", "" ], [ "Falferi", "P.", "" ], [ "Flaminio", "R.", "" ], [ "Franc", "J.", "" ], [ "Frasconi", "F.", "" ], [ "Freise", "A.", "" ], [ "Friedrich", "D.", "" ], [ "Fulda", "P.", "" ], [ "Gair", "J.", "" ], [ "Gemme", "G.", "" ], [ "Genin", "E.", "" ], [ "Gennai", "A.", "" ], [ "Giazotto", "A.", "" ], [ "Glampedakis", "K.", "" ], [ "Gräf", "C.", "" ], [ "Granata", "M.", "" ], [ "Grote", "H.", "" ], [ "Guidi", "G.", "" ], [ "Gurkovsky", "A.", "" ], [ "Hammond", "G.", "" ], [ "Hannam", "M.", "" ], [ "Harms", "J.", "" ], [ "Heinert", "D.", "" ], [ "Hendry", "M.", "" ], [ "Heng", "I.", "" ], [ "Hennes", "E.", "" ], [ "Hough", "J.", "" ], [ "Husa", "S.", "" ], [ "Huttner", "S.", "" ], [ "Jones", "G.", "" ], [ "Khalili", "F.", "" ], [ "Kokeyama", "K.", "" ], [ "Kokkotas", "K.", "" ], [ "Krishnan", "B.", "" ], [ "Li", "T. G. F.", "" ], [ "Lorenzini", "M.", "" ], [ "Lück", "H.", "" ], [ "Majorana", "E.", "" ], [ "Mandel", "I.", "" ], [ "Mandic", "V.", "" ], [ "Mantovani", "M.", "" ], [ "Martin", "I.", "" ], [ "Michel", "C.", "" ], [ "Minenkov", "Y.", "" ], [ "Morgado", "N.", "" ], [ "Mosca", "S.", "" ], [ "Mours", "B", "" ], [ "Müller-Ebhardt", "H.", "" ], [ "Murray", "P.", "" ], [ "Nawrodt", "R.", "" ], [ "Nelson", "J.", "" ], [ "Oshaughnessy", "R.", "" ], [ "Ott", "C. D.", "" ], [ "Palomba", "C.", "" ], [ "Paoli", "A.", "" ], [ "Parguez", "G.", "" ], [ "Pasqualetti", "A.", "" ], [ "Passaquieti", "R.", "" ], [ "Passuello", "D.", "" ], [ "Pinard", "L.", "" ], [ "Plastino", "W.", "" ], [ "Poggiani1", "R.", "" ], [ "Popolizio", "P.", "" ], [ "Prato", "M.", "" ], [ "Punturo", "M.", "" ], [ "Puppo", "P.", "" ], [ "Rabeling", "D.", "" ], [ "Rapagnani", "P.", "" ], [ "Read", "J.", "" ], [ "Regimbau", "T.", "" ], [ "Rehbein", "H.", "" ], [ "Reid", "S.", "" ], [ "Ricci", "F.", "" ], [ "Richard", "F.", "" ], [ "Rocchi", "A.", "" ], [ "Rowan", "S.", "" ], [ "Rüdiger", "A.", "" ], [ "Santamaría", "L.", "" ], [ "Sassolas", "B.", "" ], [ "Sathyaprakash", "B.", "" ], [ "Schnabel", "R.", "" ], [ "Schwarz", "C.", "" ], [ "Seidel", "P.", "" ], [ "Sintes", "A.", "" ], [ "Somiya", "K.", "" ], [ "Speirits", "F.", "" ], [ "Strain", "K.", "" ], [ "Strigin", "S", "" ], [ "Sutton", "P.", "" ], [ "Tarabrin", "S.", "" ], [ "Thüring", "A.", "" ], [ "Brand", "J. van den", "" ], [ "van Veggel", "M.", "" ], [ "Broeck", "C. van den", "" ], [ "Vecchio", "A.", "" ], [ "Veitch", "J.", "" ], [ "Vetrano", "F.", "" ], [ "Vicere", "A.", "" ], [ "Vyatchanin", "S.", "" ], [ "Willke", "B.", "" ], [ "Woan", "G.", "" ], [ "Yamamoto", "K.", "" ] ]
Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are expected to directly observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin. The Einstein Telescope, a third-generation gravitational wave detector, has been proposed in order to fully open up the emerging field of gravitational wave astronomy. In this article we describe sensitivity models for the Einstein Telescope and investigate potential limits imposed by fundamental noise sources. A special focus is set on evaluating the frequency band below 10Hz where a complex mixture of seismic, gravity gradient, suspension thermal and radiation pressure noise dominates. We develop the most accurate sensitivity model, referred to as ET-D, for a third-generation detector so far, including the most relevant fundamental noise contributions.
gr-qc/0305097
Carl E. Dolby
Carl E. Dolby
Simultaneity and the Concept of `Particle'
Submitted to World Scientific. To appear in proceedings of the Venice Conference on Time and Matter, August 2002
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
The history of the particle concept is briefly reviewed, with particular emphasis on the `foliation dependence' of many particle creation models, and the possible connection between our notion of particle and our notion of simultaneity. It is argued that the concept of `radar time' (originally introduced by Sir Hermann Bondi in his work on k-calculus) provides a satisfactory concept of `simultaneity' for observers in curved spacetimes. This is used to propose an observer-dependent particle interpretation, applicable to an arbitrary observer, depending solely on that observers motion and not on a choice of coordinates or gauge. This definition is illustrated with application to non-inertial observers and simple cosmologies, demonstrating its generality and its consistency with known cases.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 May 2003 11:36:46 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Dolby", "Carl E.", "" ] ]
The history of the particle concept is briefly reviewed, with particular emphasis on the `foliation dependence' of many particle creation models, and the possible connection between our notion of particle and our notion of simultaneity. It is argued that the concept of `radar time' (originally introduced by Sir Hermann Bondi in his work on k-calculus) provides a satisfactory concept of `simultaneity' for observers in curved spacetimes. This is used to propose an observer-dependent particle interpretation, applicable to an arbitrary observer, depending solely on that observers motion and not on a choice of coordinates or gauge. This definition is illustrated with application to non-inertial observers and simple cosmologies, demonstrating its generality and its consistency with known cases.
2205.00298
Adri\'an Del R\'io Vega
Abhay Ashtekar, Adri\'an del R\'io, Marc Schneider
Space-like Singularities of General Relativity: A Phantom menace?
Invited article under "Introduction to Current Research", GRG (at press). Special issue in memory of Prof. T. Padmanabhan
Gen. Relativ.Grav. (2022) 54:45
10.1007/s10714-022-02932-5
null
gr-qc hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The big bang and the Schwarzschild singularities are space-like. They are generally regarded as the "final frontiers" at which space-time ends and general relativity breaks down. We review the status of such space-like singularities from three increasingly more general perspectives. They are provided by (i) A reformulation of classical general relativity motivated by the Belinskii, Khalatnikov, Lifshitz conjecture on the behavior of the gravitational field near space-like singularities; (ii) The use of test quantum fields to probe the nature of these singularities; and, (iii) An analysis of the fate of these singularities in loop quantum gravity due to quantum geometry effects. At all three levels singularities turn out to be less menacing than one might a priori expect from classical general relativity. Our goal is to present an overview of the emerging conceptual picture and suggest lines for further work. In line with the \emph{Introduction to Current Research} theme, we have made an attempt to make it easily accessible to all researchers in gravitational physics.
[ { "created": "Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:00:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-05-24
[ [ "Ashtekar", "Abhay", "" ], [ "del Río", "Adrián", "" ], [ "Schneider", "Marc", "" ] ]
The big bang and the Schwarzschild singularities are space-like. They are generally regarded as the "final frontiers" at which space-time ends and general relativity breaks down. We review the status of such space-like singularities from three increasingly more general perspectives. They are provided by (i) A reformulation of classical general relativity motivated by the Belinskii, Khalatnikov, Lifshitz conjecture on the behavior of the gravitational field near space-like singularities; (ii) The use of test quantum fields to probe the nature of these singularities; and, (iii) An analysis of the fate of these singularities in loop quantum gravity due to quantum geometry effects. At all three levels singularities turn out to be less menacing than one might a priori expect from classical general relativity. Our goal is to present an overview of the emerging conceptual picture and suggest lines for further work. In line with the \emph{Introduction to Current Research} theme, we have made an attempt to make it easily accessible to all researchers in gravitational physics.
2207.12438
Sean Li
Sean E. Li, Thomas W. Baumgarte, Kenneth A. Dennison, and H. P. de Oliveira
Bona-Mass\'o slices of Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetimes
9 pages, 10 figures
Phys. Rev. D 106, 104059 (2022)
10.1103/PhysRevD.106.104059
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Motivated by recent numerical relativity simulations of charged black holes and their interactions, we explore the properties of common slicing conditions in Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetimes. Specifically, we consider different choices for the so-called Bona-Mass\'o function, and construct static and spherically symmetric slices of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime satisfying the corresponding slicing conditions. For some of these functions the construction is entirely analytical, while for others we use numerical root-finding to solve quartic equations. Our solutions are parameterized by the charge-to-mass ratio $\lambda = Q/M$ and approach a unique slice, independent of the Bona-Mass\'o functions considered here, in the extremal limit $\lambda \to 1$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:00:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:30:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-01-12
[ [ "Li", "Sean E.", "" ], [ "Baumgarte", "Thomas W.", "" ], [ "Dennison", "Kenneth A.", "" ], [ "de Oliveira", "H. P.", "" ] ]
Motivated by recent numerical relativity simulations of charged black holes and their interactions, we explore the properties of common slicing conditions in Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetimes. Specifically, we consider different choices for the so-called Bona-Mass\'o function, and construct static and spherically symmetric slices of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime satisfying the corresponding slicing conditions. For some of these functions the construction is entirely analytical, while for others we use numerical root-finding to solve quartic equations. Our solutions are parameterized by the charge-to-mass ratio $\lambda = Q/M$ and approach a unique slice, independent of the Bona-Mass\'o functions considered here, in the extremal limit $\lambda \to 1$.
gr-qc/0307118
Carlo Rovelli
Florian Conrady, Luisa Doplicher, Robert Oeckl, Carlo Rovelli, Massimo Testa
Minkowski vacuum in background independent quantum gravity
8 pages, no figures
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 064019
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.064019
ROMA1-2003-1539, AEI-2003-063
gr-qc
null
We consider a local formalism in quantum field theory, in which no reference is made to infinitely extended spacial surfaces, infinite past or infinite future. This can be obtained in terms of a functional W[f,S] of the field f on a closed 3d surface S that bounds a finite region R of Minkowski spacetime. The dependence of W on S is governed by a local covariant generalization of the Schroedinger equation. Particles' scattering amplitudes that describe experiments conducted in the finite region R --the lab during a finite time-- can be expressed in terms of W. The dependence of W on the geometry of S expresses the dependence of the transition amplitudes on the relative location of the particle detectors. In a gravitational theory, background independence implies that W is independent from S. However, the detectors' relative location is still coded in the argument of W, because the geometry of the boundary surface is determined by the boundary value f of the gravitational field. This observation clarifies the physical meaning of the functional W defined by non perturbative formulations of quantum gravity, such as the spinfoam formalism. In particular, it suggests a way to derive particles' scattering amplitudes from a spinfoam model. In particular, we discuss the notion of vacuum in a generally covariant context. We distinguish the nonperturbative vacuum |0_S>, which codes the dynamics, from the Minkowski vacuum |0_M>, which is the state with no particles and is recovered by taking appropriate large values of the boundary metric. We derive a relation between the two vacuum states. We propose an explicit expression for computing the Minkowski vacuum from a spinfoam model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:32:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Conrady", "Florian", "" ], [ "Doplicher", "Luisa", "" ], [ "Oeckl", "Robert", "" ], [ "Rovelli", "Carlo", "" ], [ "Testa", "Massimo", "" ] ]
We consider a local formalism in quantum field theory, in which no reference is made to infinitely extended spacial surfaces, infinite past or infinite future. This can be obtained in terms of a functional W[f,S] of the field f on a closed 3d surface S that bounds a finite region R of Minkowski spacetime. The dependence of W on S is governed by a local covariant generalization of the Schroedinger equation. Particles' scattering amplitudes that describe experiments conducted in the finite region R --the lab during a finite time-- can be expressed in terms of W. The dependence of W on the geometry of S expresses the dependence of the transition amplitudes on the relative location of the particle detectors. In a gravitational theory, background independence implies that W is independent from S. However, the detectors' relative location is still coded in the argument of W, because the geometry of the boundary surface is determined by the boundary value f of the gravitational field. This observation clarifies the physical meaning of the functional W defined by non perturbative formulations of quantum gravity, such as the spinfoam formalism. In particular, it suggests a way to derive particles' scattering amplitudes from a spinfoam model. In particular, we discuss the notion of vacuum in a generally covariant context. We distinguish the nonperturbative vacuum |0_S>, which codes the dynamics, from the Minkowski vacuum |0_M>, which is the state with no particles and is recovered by taking appropriate large values of the boundary metric. We derive a relation between the two vacuum states. We propose an explicit expression for computing the Minkowski vacuum from a spinfoam model.
1211.3289
\"Ozg\"ur Acik
\"Umit Ertem, \"Ozg\"ur A\c{c}{\i}k
Couplings of gravitational currents with Chern-Simons gravities
8 pages, a new discussion with two paragraphs and some references added, published version
Phys. Rev. D 87, 044052 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.044052
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The coupling of conserved p-brane currents with non-Abelian gaugetheories is done consistently by using Chern-Simons forms. Conserved currents localized on p-branes that have a gravitational origin can be constructed from Killing-Yano forms of the underlying spacetime. We propose a generalization of the coupling procedure with Chern-Simons gravities to the case of gravitational conserved currents. In odd dimensions, the field equations of coupled Chern-Simons gravities that describe the local curvature on p-branes are obtained. In special cases of three and five dimensions, the field equations are investigated in detail.
[ { "created": "Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:27:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:05:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-12
[ [ "Ertem", "Ümit", "" ], [ "Açık", "Özgür", "" ] ]
The coupling of conserved p-brane currents with non-Abelian gaugetheories is done consistently by using Chern-Simons forms. Conserved currents localized on p-branes that have a gravitational origin can be constructed from Killing-Yano forms of the underlying spacetime. We propose a generalization of the coupling procedure with Chern-Simons gravities to the case of gravitational conserved currents. In odd dimensions, the field equations of coupled Chern-Simons gravities that describe the local curvature on p-branes are obtained. In special cases of three and five dimensions, the field equations are investigated in detail.
1406.2397
Hongwei Yu
Qinglin Li, Hongwei Yu, Wenting Zhou
Response of a uniformly accelerated detector to massless Rarita-Schwinger fields in vacuum
12 pages, no figures
Annals of Physics 348 (2014) 144
10.1016/j.aop.2014.05.016
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the response of a uniformly accelerated detector modeled by a two-level atom nonlinearly coupled to vacuum massless Rarita-Schwinger fields. We first generalize the formalism developed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc, and Cohen-Tannoudji in the linear coupling case, and we then calculate the mean rate of change of the atomic energy of the accelerated atom. Our result shows that a uniformly accelerated atom in its ground state interacting with vacuum Rarita-Schwinger field fluctuations would spontaneously transition to an excited state and the unique feature in contrast to the case of the atom coupled to the scalar, electromagnetic and Dirac fields is the appearance of terms in the excitation rate which are proportional to the sixth and eighth powers of acceleration.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Jun 2014 01:00:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-19
[ [ "Li", "Qinglin", "" ], [ "Yu", "Hongwei", "" ], [ "Zhou", "Wenting", "" ] ]
We study the response of a uniformly accelerated detector modeled by a two-level atom nonlinearly coupled to vacuum massless Rarita-Schwinger fields. We first generalize the formalism developed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc, and Cohen-Tannoudji in the linear coupling case, and we then calculate the mean rate of change of the atomic energy of the accelerated atom. Our result shows that a uniformly accelerated atom in its ground state interacting with vacuum Rarita-Schwinger field fluctuations would spontaneously transition to an excited state and the unique feature in contrast to the case of the atom coupled to the scalar, electromagnetic and Dirac fields is the appearance of terms in the excitation rate which are proportional to the sixth and eighth powers of acceleration.
2011.01326
Sarah Kahlen
Jose Luis Bl\'azquez-Salcedo, Sarah Kahlen, Jutta Kunz
Critical solutions of scalarized black holes
null
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider charged black holes with scalar hair obtained in a class of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models, where the scalar field is coupled to the Maxwell invariant with a quartic coupling function. Besides the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes, these models allow for black holes with scalar hair. Scrutinizing the domain of existence of these hairy black holes, we observe a critical behavior: A limiting configuration is encountered at a critical value of the charge, where spacetime splits into two parts: an inner spacetime with a finite scalar field and an outer extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime. Such a pattern was first observed in the context of gravitating non-Abelian magnetic monopoles and their hairy black holes.
[ { "created": "Mon, 2 Nov 2020 21:14:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-11-04
[ [ "Blázquez-Salcedo", "Jose Luis", "" ], [ "Kahlen", "Sarah", "" ], [ "Kunz", "Jutta", "" ] ]
We consider charged black holes with scalar hair obtained in a class of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models, where the scalar field is coupled to the Maxwell invariant with a quartic coupling function. Besides the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes, these models allow for black holes with scalar hair. Scrutinizing the domain of existence of these hairy black holes, we observe a critical behavior: A limiting configuration is encountered at a critical value of the charge, where spacetime splits into two parts: an inner spacetime with a finite scalar field and an outer extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime. Such a pattern was first observed in the context of gravitating non-Abelian magnetic monopoles and their hairy black holes.
1307.4158
Drew Keppel
Drew Keppel
Metrics for multi-detector template placement in searches for short-duration nonprecessing inspiral gravitational-wave signals
10 pages, 5 figures
null
null
LIGO-P1300084
gr-qc astro-ph.IM physics.data-an
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the family of multi-detector F-statistic metrics for short duration, nonprecessing inspiral signals, we derive a marginalized metric that is directly applicable to the problem of generating template banks for coincident and coherent multi-detector searches for gravitational-waves. This metric is compared to other average metrics, such as that proposed for the case of searches associated with continuous signals from rotating neutron stars. We show how the four-dimensional metric can be separated into two two-dimensional metrics associated with the sky and mass parameter subspaces, allowing the creation of separate template banks for these subspaces. Finally, we present an algorithm for computing the mass space metric associated with both coincident and coherent multi-detector targeted or all-sky searches for short duration, nonprecessing inspiral gravitational-wave signals.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:09:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-07-17
[ [ "Keppel", "Drew", "" ] ]
Using the family of multi-detector F-statistic metrics for short duration, nonprecessing inspiral signals, we derive a marginalized metric that is directly applicable to the problem of generating template banks for coincident and coherent multi-detector searches for gravitational-waves. This metric is compared to other average metrics, such as that proposed for the case of searches associated with continuous signals from rotating neutron stars. We show how the four-dimensional metric can be separated into two two-dimensional metrics associated with the sky and mass parameter subspaces, allowing the creation of separate template banks for these subspaces. Finally, we present an algorithm for computing the mass space metric associated with both coincident and coherent multi-detector targeted or all-sky searches for short duration, nonprecessing inspiral gravitational-wave signals.
1902.08037
Pritikana Bhandari
Subhayan Maity, Pritikana Bhandari, Subenoy Chakraborty
Universe consisting of diffusive dark fluids: thermodynamics and stability analysis
null
European Physical Journal C79(2019) no.1,82
10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6603-0
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The present work deals with homogeneous and isotropic FLRW model of the Universe having a system of non-interacting diffusive cosmic fluids with barotropic equation of state (constant or variable equation of state parameter). Due to diffusive nature of the cosmic fluids, the divergence of the energy momentum tensor is chosen to be proportional to the diffusive current. The thermodynamic stability analysis of individual fluids is done and the stability conditions are expressed as restrictions on the equation of state parameter.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:45:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-02-22
[ [ "Maity", "Subhayan", "" ], [ "Bhandari", "Pritikana", "" ], [ "Chakraborty", "Subenoy", "" ] ]
The present work deals with homogeneous and isotropic FLRW model of the Universe having a system of non-interacting diffusive cosmic fluids with barotropic equation of state (constant or variable equation of state parameter). Due to diffusive nature of the cosmic fluids, the divergence of the energy momentum tensor is chosen to be proportional to the diffusive current. The thermodynamic stability analysis of individual fluids is done and the stability conditions are expressed as restrictions on the equation of state parameter.
2403.16229
Dawood Kothawala Dr.
Dawood Kothawala
Non-Inertial Rigid Frames and the Principle of Equivalence
7 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
One version of the principle of equivalence, as originally formulated by Einstein, states that ``gravity" can be mimicked locally by going to an ``accelerated frame of reference". As highlighted by Synge, the physical content of this principle remains obscure in so far as it does not refer to the Riemann tensor $R_{abcd}$, which encodes the true effects of gravity. We here give the acceleration profile of a $Born$ rigid, Rindler$esque$, frame that can mimic a gravitational field corresponding to a given $R_{abcd}$. The generalised deviation equation that yields this result also has Centrifugal and Coriolis terms appearing in a purely relational context, yielding a similar connection between angular velocity of rotating, rigid inertial frames and the Riemann tensor. We comment briefly on implications for Mach principle.
[ { "created": "Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:47:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-03-26
[ [ "Kothawala", "Dawood", "" ] ]
One version of the principle of equivalence, as originally formulated by Einstein, states that ``gravity" can be mimicked locally by going to an ``accelerated frame of reference". As highlighted by Synge, the physical content of this principle remains obscure in so far as it does not refer to the Riemann tensor $R_{abcd}$, which encodes the true effects of gravity. We here give the acceleration profile of a $Born$ rigid, Rindler$esque$, frame that can mimic a gravitational field corresponding to a given $R_{abcd}$. The generalised deviation equation that yields this result also has Centrifugal and Coriolis terms appearing in a purely relational context, yielding a similar connection between angular velocity of rotating, rigid inertial frames and the Riemann tensor. We comment briefly on implications for Mach principle.
0710.1763
Chih-Hung Wang
Chih-Hung Wang
Linearized Torsion Waves in a Tensor-Tensor Theory of Gravity
13 pages
Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie, Volume 32 no 2-3, 267, 2007
null
null
gr-qc
null
We investigate a linearized tensor-tensor theory of gravity with torsion and a perturbed torsion wave solution is discovered in background Minkowski spacetime with zero torsion. Furthermore, gauge transformations of any perturbed tensor field are derived in general background non-Riemannian geometries. By calculating autoparallel deviations, both longitudinal and transverse polarizations of the torsion wave are discovered.
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:22:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:30:39 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-07-02
[ [ "Wang", "Chih-Hung", "" ] ]
We investigate a linearized tensor-tensor theory of gravity with torsion and a perturbed torsion wave solution is discovered in background Minkowski spacetime with zero torsion. Furthermore, gauge transformations of any perturbed tensor field are derived in general background non-Riemannian geometries. By calculating autoparallel deviations, both longitudinal and transverse polarizations of the torsion wave are discovered.
2307.16305
Deng Wang
Deng Wang
Testing the first law of black hole mechanics with GW150914
3 pgs, 2 figs. This study gives a possible evidence of 1st law of BH mechanics
null
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Whether the first law of black hole mechanics is correct is an important question in black holes physics. Subjected to current limited gravitational wave events, we propose its weaker version that permits a relatively large perturbation to a black hole system and implement a simple test with the first event GW150914. Confronting the strain data with the theory, we obtain the constraint on the deviation parameter $\alpha=0.07\pm0.11$, which indicates that this weaker version is valid at the 68\% confidence level. This result implies that the first law of black hole mechanics may be correct.
[ { "created": "Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:24:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:24:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-08-02
[ [ "Wang", "Deng", "" ] ]
Whether the first law of black hole mechanics is correct is an important question in black holes physics. Subjected to current limited gravitational wave events, we propose its weaker version that permits a relatively large perturbation to a black hole system and implement a simple test with the first event GW150914. Confronting the strain data with the theory, we obtain the constraint on the deviation parameter $\alpha=0.07\pm0.11$, which indicates that this weaker version is valid at the 68\% confidence level. This result implies that the first law of black hole mechanics may be correct.
1110.1659
Christian Corda cordac
Lawrence B. Crowell and Christian Corda
f(R) Gravity, relic coherent gravitons and optical chaos
32 pages, 1 figure, invited paper to appear in "Beyond Standard Gravity and Cosmology", special issue of "Galaxies" edited by Antonaldo Diaferio
Galaxies 2014, 2(1), 160-188
10.3390/galaxies2010160
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the production of massive relic coherent gravitons in a particular class of f(R) gravity which arises from string theory and their possible imprint in Cosmic Microwave Background. In fact, in the very early universe these relic gravitons could have acted as slow gravity waves. They may have then acted to focus the geodesics of radiation and matter. Therefore, their imprint on the later evolution of the universe could appear as filaments and domain wall in the Universe today. In that case, the effect on Cosmic Microwave Background should be analogous to the effect of water waves, which, in focusing light, create optical caustics which are commonly seen on the bottom of swimming pools. We analyze this important issue by showing how relic massive GWs perturb the trajectories of Cosmic Microwave Background photons (gravitational lensing by relic GWs). The consequence of the type of physics discussed is outlined by illustrating an amplification of what might be called optical chaos.
[ { "created": "Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:41:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:29:22 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:32:05 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-03-19
[ [ "Crowell", "Lawrence B.", "" ], [ "Corda", "Christian", "" ] ]
We discuss the production of massive relic coherent gravitons in a particular class of f(R) gravity which arises from string theory and their possible imprint in Cosmic Microwave Background. In fact, in the very early universe these relic gravitons could have acted as slow gravity waves. They may have then acted to focus the geodesics of radiation and matter. Therefore, their imprint on the later evolution of the universe could appear as filaments and domain wall in the Universe today. In that case, the effect on Cosmic Microwave Background should be analogous to the effect of water waves, which, in focusing light, create optical caustics which are commonly seen on the bottom of swimming pools. We analyze this important issue by showing how relic massive GWs perturb the trajectories of Cosmic Microwave Background photons (gravitational lensing by relic GWs). The consequence of the type of physics discussed is outlined by illustrating an amplification of what might be called optical chaos.
1106.3031
Felipe Poulis
F. P. Poulis and J. M. Salim
Weyl Geometry as Characterization of Space-Time
12 pages
Int. J. Mod. Phys.: Conf. Series, V. 3, 87-97 (2011)
10.1142/S2010194511001176
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Motivated by an axiomatic approach to characterize space-time it is investigated a reformulation of Einstein's gravity where the pseudo-riemannian geometry is substituted by a Weyl one. It is presented the main properties of the Weyl geometry and it is shown that it gives extra contributions to the trajectories of test particles, serving as one more motivation to study general relativity in Weyl geometry. It is introduced its variational formalism and it is established the coupling with other physical fields in such a way that the theory acquires a gauge symmetry for the geometrical fields. It is shown that this symmetry is still present for the red-shift and it is concluded that for cosmological models it opens the possibility that observations can be fully described by the new geometrical scalar field. It is concluded then that this reformulation, although representing a theoretical advance, still needs a complete description of their objects.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:30:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:26:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-12-19
[ [ "Poulis", "F. P.", "" ], [ "Salim", "J. M.", "" ] ]
Motivated by an axiomatic approach to characterize space-time it is investigated a reformulation of Einstein's gravity where the pseudo-riemannian geometry is substituted by a Weyl one. It is presented the main properties of the Weyl geometry and it is shown that it gives extra contributions to the trajectories of test particles, serving as one more motivation to study general relativity in Weyl geometry. It is introduced its variational formalism and it is established the coupling with other physical fields in such a way that the theory acquires a gauge symmetry for the geometrical fields. It is shown that this symmetry is still present for the red-shift and it is concluded that for cosmological models it opens the possibility that observations can be fully described by the new geometrical scalar field. It is concluded then that this reformulation, although representing a theoretical advance, still needs a complete description of their objects.
2010.02023
Luigi Pilo
Marco Celoria, Denis Comelli, Luigi Pilo, Rocco Rollo
Boosting GWs in Supersolid Inflation
32 pages, 8 figures. Few typos corrected and comments added
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2021)185
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Inflation driven by a generic self-gravitating medium is an interesting alternative to study the impact of spontaneous spacetime symmetry breaking during a quasi de-Sitter phase, in particular the 4-dimensional diffeomorphism invariance of GR is spontaneously broken down to $ISO(3)$. The effective description is based on four scalar fields that describe the excitations of a supersolid. There are two phonon-like propagating scalar degrees of freedom that mix non-trivially both at early and late times and, after exiting the horizon, give rise to non-trivial correlations among the different scalar power spectra. The non-linear structure of the theory allows a secondary gravitational waves production during inflation, efficient enough to saturate the present experimental bound and with a blue-tilted spectral index.
[ { "created": "Fri, 2 Oct 2020 10:54:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:27:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-02-24
[ [ "Celoria", "Marco", "" ], [ "Comelli", "Denis", "" ], [ "Pilo", "Luigi", "" ], [ "Rollo", "Rocco", "" ] ]
Inflation driven by a generic self-gravitating medium is an interesting alternative to study the impact of spontaneous spacetime symmetry breaking during a quasi de-Sitter phase, in particular the 4-dimensional diffeomorphism invariance of GR is spontaneously broken down to $ISO(3)$. The effective description is based on four scalar fields that describe the excitations of a supersolid. There are two phonon-like propagating scalar degrees of freedom that mix non-trivially both at early and late times and, after exiting the horizon, give rise to non-trivial correlations among the different scalar power spectra. The non-linear structure of the theory allows a secondary gravitational waves production during inflation, efficient enough to saturate the present experimental bound and with a blue-tilted spectral index.
gr-qc/0303072
Martin Bojowald
Martin Bojowald and Kevin Vandersloot
Loop Quantum Cosmology, Boundary Proposals, and Inflation
20 pages, 6 figures
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 124023
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.124023
CGPG-03/3-4
gr-qc astro-ph hep-th
null
Loop quantum cosmology of the closed isotropic model is studied with a special emphasis on a comparison with traditional results obtained in the Wheeler-DeWitt approach. This includes the relation of the dynamical initial conditions with boundary conditions such as the no-boundary or the tunneling proposal and a discussion of inflation from quantum cosmology.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:52:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Bojowald", "Martin", "" ], [ "Vandersloot", "Kevin", "" ] ]
Loop quantum cosmology of the closed isotropic model is studied with a special emphasis on a comparison with traditional results obtained in the Wheeler-DeWitt approach. This includes the relation of the dynamical initial conditions with boundary conditions such as the no-boundary or the tunneling proposal and a discussion of inflation from quantum cosmology.
0907.5197
Adam Pound
Adam Pound
The self-consistent gravitational self-force
44 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev.D81:024023,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.024023
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
I review the problem of motion for small bodies in General Relativity, with an emphasis on developing a self-consistent treatment of the gravitational self-force. An analysis of the various derivations extant in the literature leads me to formulate an asymptotic expansion in which the metric is expanded while a representative worldline is held fixed; I discuss the utility of this expansion for both exact point particles and asymptotically small bodies, contrasting it with a regular expansion in which both the metric and the worldline are expanded. Based on these preliminary analyses, I present a general method of deriving self-consistent equations of motion for arbitrarily structured (sufficiently compact) small bodies. My method utilizes two expansions: an inner expansion that keeps the size of the body fixed, and an outer expansion that lets the body shrink while holding its worldline fixed. By imposing the Lorenz gauge, I express the global solution to the Einstein equation in the outer expansion in terms of an integral over a worldtube of small radius surrounding the body. Appropriate boundary data on the tube are determined from a local-in-space expansion in a buffer region where both the inner and outer expansions are valid. This buffer-region expansion also results in an expression for the self-force in terms of irreducible pieces of the metric perturbation on the worldline. Based on the global solution, these pieces of the perturbation can be written in terms of a tail integral over the body's past history. This approach can be applied at any order to obtain a self-consistent approximation that is valid on long timescales, both near and far from the small body. I conclude by discussing possible extensions of my method and comparing it to alternative approaches.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:51:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:13:10 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-04-06
[ [ "Pound", "Adam", "" ] ]
I review the problem of motion for small bodies in General Relativity, with an emphasis on developing a self-consistent treatment of the gravitational self-force. An analysis of the various derivations extant in the literature leads me to formulate an asymptotic expansion in which the metric is expanded while a representative worldline is held fixed; I discuss the utility of this expansion for both exact point particles and asymptotically small bodies, contrasting it with a regular expansion in which both the metric and the worldline are expanded. Based on these preliminary analyses, I present a general method of deriving self-consistent equations of motion for arbitrarily structured (sufficiently compact) small bodies. My method utilizes two expansions: an inner expansion that keeps the size of the body fixed, and an outer expansion that lets the body shrink while holding its worldline fixed. By imposing the Lorenz gauge, I express the global solution to the Einstein equation in the outer expansion in terms of an integral over a worldtube of small radius surrounding the body. Appropriate boundary data on the tube are determined from a local-in-space expansion in a buffer region where both the inner and outer expansions are valid. This buffer-region expansion also results in an expression for the self-force in terms of irreducible pieces of the metric perturbation on the worldline. Based on the global solution, these pieces of the perturbation can be written in terms of a tail integral over the body's past history. This approach can be applied at any order to obtain a self-consistent approximation that is valid on long timescales, both near and far from the small body. I conclude by discussing possible extensions of my method and comparing it to alternative approaches.
0805.3175
Isabeau Pr\'emont-Schwarz
Fotini Markopoulou, Isabeau Pr\'emont-Schwarz
Conserved Topological Defects in Non-Embedded Graphs in Quantum Gravity
42 pages, 34 figures
Class.Quant.Grav.25:205015,2008
10.1088/0264-9381/25/20/205015
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We follow up on previous work which found that commonly used graph evolution moves lead to conserved quantities that can be expressed in terms of the braiding of the graph in its embedding space. We study non-embedded graphs under three distinct sets of dynamical rules and find non-trivial conserved quantities that can be expressed in terms of topological defects in the dual geometry. For graphs dual to 2-dimensional simplicial complexes we identify all the conserved quantities of the evolution. We also indicate expected results for graphs dual to 3-dimensional simplicial complexes.
[ { "created": "Tue, 20 May 2008 20:46:32 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:12:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Markopoulou", "Fotini", "" ], [ "Prémont-Schwarz", "Isabeau", "" ] ]
We follow up on previous work which found that commonly used graph evolution moves lead to conserved quantities that can be expressed in terms of the braiding of the graph in its embedding space. We study non-embedded graphs under three distinct sets of dynamical rules and find non-trivial conserved quantities that can be expressed in terms of topological defects in the dual geometry. For graphs dual to 2-dimensional simplicial complexes we identify all the conserved quantities of the evolution. We also indicate expected results for graphs dual to 3-dimensional simplicial complexes.
2112.02364
Xun Xue
Jing Li, Yongxiang Zhou and Xun Xue
Spatial Curvature and Large Scale Lorentz Violation
17 pages, 16 figures
null
10.1088/1674-1137/ac5319
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The tension between the Hubble constant obtained from the local measurements and from cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements motivated us to consider the cosmological model beyond $\Lambda$CDM one. We investigate the cosmology in the large scale Lorentz violation model with non-vanishing spatial curvature. The degeneracy among spatial curvature, cosmological constant and cosmological contortion distribution makes the model viable in describing the known observation date. We get some constraints on the spatial curvature by the comparison of the relation between measured distance modulus and red-shift with the predicted one, the evolution of matter density over time and the evolution of effective cosmological constant. The performance of large scale Lorentz violation model with non-vanishing spatial curvature under these constrains is discussed.
[ { "created": "Sat, 4 Dec 2021 15:47:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-06-15
[ [ "Li", "Jing", "" ], [ "Zhou", "Yongxiang", "" ], [ "Xue", "Xun", "" ] ]
The tension between the Hubble constant obtained from the local measurements and from cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements motivated us to consider the cosmological model beyond $\Lambda$CDM one. We investigate the cosmology in the large scale Lorentz violation model with non-vanishing spatial curvature. The degeneracy among spatial curvature, cosmological constant and cosmological contortion distribution makes the model viable in describing the known observation date. We get some constraints on the spatial curvature by the comparison of the relation between measured distance modulus and red-shift with the predicted one, the evolution of matter density over time and the evolution of effective cosmological constant. The performance of large scale Lorentz violation model with non-vanishing spatial curvature under these constrains is discussed.
1807.10281
Alexander Vikman
Eugeny Babichev, Sabir Ramazanov, Alexander Vikman
Recovering P(X) from a canonical complex field
16 pages+appendices, references added, matches the published version
JCAP11(2018)023
10.1088/1475-7516/2018/11/023
LPT-Orsay-18-89
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the correspondence between models of a self-interacting canonical complex scalar field and P(X)-theories/shift-symmetric k-essence. Both describe the same background cosmological dynamics, provided that the amplitude of the complex scalar is frozen modulo the Hubble drag. We compare perturbations in these two theories on top of a fixed cosmological background. The dispersion relation for the complex scalar has two branches. In the small momentum limit, one of these branches coincides with the dispersion relation of the P(X)-theory. Hence, the low momentum phase velocity agrees with the sound speed in the corresponding P(X)-theory. The behavior of high frequency modes associated with the second branch of the dispersion relation depends on the value of the sound speed. In the subluminal case, the second branch has a mass gap. On the contrary, in the superluminal case, this branch is vulnerable to a tachyonic instability. We also discuss the special case of the P(X)-theories with an imaginary sound speed leading to the catastrophic gradient instability. The complex field models provide with a cutoff on the momenta involved in the instability.
[ { "created": "Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:53:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 16 Aug 2018 13:49:07 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:24:33 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-11-21
[ [ "Babichev", "Eugeny", "" ], [ "Ramazanov", "Sabir", "" ], [ "Vikman", "Alexander", "" ] ]
We study the correspondence between models of a self-interacting canonical complex scalar field and P(X)-theories/shift-symmetric k-essence. Both describe the same background cosmological dynamics, provided that the amplitude of the complex scalar is frozen modulo the Hubble drag. We compare perturbations in these two theories on top of a fixed cosmological background. The dispersion relation for the complex scalar has two branches. In the small momentum limit, one of these branches coincides with the dispersion relation of the P(X)-theory. Hence, the low momentum phase velocity agrees with the sound speed in the corresponding P(X)-theory. The behavior of high frequency modes associated with the second branch of the dispersion relation depends on the value of the sound speed. In the subluminal case, the second branch has a mass gap. On the contrary, in the superluminal case, this branch is vulnerable to a tachyonic instability. We also discuss the special case of the P(X)-theories with an imaginary sound speed leading to the catastrophic gradient instability. The complex field models provide with a cutoff on the momenta involved in the instability.
1801.02250
Stephan Reimers
Kevin Eickhoff, Stephan Reimers
Dynamics of test particles in the five-dimensional G\"{o}del spacetime
null
Phys. Rev. D 98, 044050 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.044050
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive the complete set of geodesic equations for massive and massless, charged test particles of a five-dimensional, rotating and charged solution of the Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons field equations in five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity and present their analytical solutions. We study the polar and radial motion, depending on the spacetime and test particle parameters, and characterize the test particle motion qualitatively by the means of parametric plots and effective potentials. We use the analytical solutions in order to visualize the test particle motion by three-dimensional plots.
[ { "created": "Sun, 7 Jan 2018 20:58:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-09-12
[ [ "Eickhoff", "Kevin", "" ], [ "Reimers", "Stephan", "" ] ]
We derive the complete set of geodesic equations for massive and massless, charged test particles of a five-dimensional, rotating and charged solution of the Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons field equations in five-dimensional minimal gauged supergravity and present their analytical solutions. We study the polar and radial motion, depending on the spacetime and test particle parameters, and characterize the test particle motion qualitatively by the means of parametric plots and effective potentials. We use the analytical solutions in order to visualize the test particle motion by three-dimensional plots.
0910.1170
Marek Lipert
Marek Lipert
Nonlinear stability of the Taub-NUT soliton in 6+1 dimensions
19 pages, 5 figures
Class.Quant.Grav.27:145002,2010
10.1088/0264-9381/27/14/145002
null
gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using mixed numerical and analytical methods we give evidence that the 6+1 dimensional Taub-NUT soliton is asymptotically nonlinearly stable against small perturbations preserving biaxial Bianchi IX symmetry. We also show that for sufficiently strong perturbations the soliton collapses to a warped black hole. Since this black hole solution is not known in closed form, for completeness of the exposition we prove its existence and determine its properties. In particular, the mass of the black hole is computed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:13:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:06:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-09-01
[ [ "Lipert", "Marek", "" ] ]
Using mixed numerical and analytical methods we give evidence that the 6+1 dimensional Taub-NUT soliton is asymptotically nonlinearly stable against small perturbations preserving biaxial Bianchi IX symmetry. We also show that for sufficiently strong perturbations the soliton collapses to a warped black hole. Since this black hole solution is not known in closed form, for completeness of the exposition we prove its existence and determine its properties. In particular, the mass of the black hole is computed.
1911.05415
Colin MacLaurin
Colin MacLaurin
Expanding space, redshifts, and rigidity: Conceptual issues in cosmology
60 pages, 16 figures. Master's thesis at the University of Queensland
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
I examine the interpretation of photon redshifts in curved spacetime, as being gravitational or Doppler in origin. In Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetime, redshifts between comoving observers are often attributed to "expanding space", whereas in Schwarzschild spacetime, redshifts between static observers are attributed to "gravitational" causes. Yet various authors have suggested a freely falling observer congruence would interpret any redshift as Doppler, whereas a rigid congruence must interpret it as gravitational since there is no relative motion. I realise this proposal by explicitly constructing coordinate systems for rigid motion in the above spacetimes. This includes an extensive analysis of observer-dependent distance measurement in curved spacetime. I also introduce Rindler acceleration, the Milne model, and Newtonian cosmology.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:01:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-11-14
[ [ "MacLaurin", "Colin", "" ] ]
I examine the interpretation of photon redshifts in curved spacetime, as being gravitational or Doppler in origin. In Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetime, redshifts between comoving observers are often attributed to "expanding space", whereas in Schwarzschild spacetime, redshifts between static observers are attributed to "gravitational" causes. Yet various authors have suggested a freely falling observer congruence would interpret any redshift as Doppler, whereas a rigid congruence must interpret it as gravitational since there is no relative motion. I realise this proposal by explicitly constructing coordinate systems for rigid motion in the above spacetimes. This includes an extensive analysis of observer-dependent distance measurement in curved spacetime. I also introduce Rindler acceleration, the Milne model, and Newtonian cosmology.
1502.04399
Hee-Suk Cho
Hee-Suk Cho
Parameter estimation using a complete signal and inspiral templates for low mass binary black holes with Advanced LIGO sensitivity
24 pages, 16 figures, major revision from version 1, matched to the published version in CQG
Class. Quantum Grav. 32 (2015) 235007
10.1088/0264-9381/32/23/235007
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the validity of inspiral templates in gravitational wave data analysis with Advanced LIGO sensitivity for low mass binary black holes with total masses of $M \leq 30 Msun$. We mainly focus on the nonspinning system. As our complete inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model ($IMR$), we assume the phenomenological model, "PhenomA", and define our inspiral template model ($Imerg$) by taking the inspiral part into account from $IMR$ up to the merger frequency (fmerg). We first calculate the {\it true} statistical uncertainties using $IMR$ signals and $IMR$ templates. Next, using $IMR$ signals and $Imerg$ templates, we calculate fitting factors and systematic biases, and compare the biases with the {\it true} statistical uncertainties. We find that the valid criteria of the bank of $Imerg$ templates are obtained as $Mcrit \sim 24 Msun$ for detection (if $M>Mcrit$, the fitting factor is smaller than $0.97$), and $Mcrit \sim 26 Msun$ for parameter estimation (if $M>Mcrit$, the systematic bias is larger than the {\it true} statistical uncertainty where the signal to noise ratio is $20$), respectively. In order to see the dependence on the cutoff frequency of the inspiral waveforms, we define another inspiral model $Iisco$ which is terminated at the innermost-stable-circular-orbit frequency ($fisco<fmerg$). We find that the valid criteria of the bank of $Iisco$ templates are obtained as $Mcrit \sim 15 Msun$ and $\sim 17 Msun$ for detection and parameter estimation, respectively. We investigate the statistical uncertainties for the inspiral template models considering various signal to noise ratios, and compare those to the {\it true} statistical uncertainties. We also consider the aligned-spinning system with fixed mass ratio ($m_1/m_2=3$) and spin ($\chi=0.5$) by employing the recent phenomenological model, "PhenomC".
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Feb 2015 01:17:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Oct 2015 05:49:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-11-10
[ [ "Cho", "Hee-Suk", "" ] ]
We study the validity of inspiral templates in gravitational wave data analysis with Advanced LIGO sensitivity for low mass binary black holes with total masses of $M \leq 30 Msun$. We mainly focus on the nonspinning system. As our complete inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model ($IMR$), we assume the phenomenological model, "PhenomA", and define our inspiral template model ($Imerg$) by taking the inspiral part into account from $IMR$ up to the merger frequency (fmerg). We first calculate the {\it true} statistical uncertainties using $IMR$ signals and $IMR$ templates. Next, using $IMR$ signals and $Imerg$ templates, we calculate fitting factors and systematic biases, and compare the biases with the {\it true} statistical uncertainties. We find that the valid criteria of the bank of $Imerg$ templates are obtained as $Mcrit \sim 24 Msun$ for detection (if $M>Mcrit$, the fitting factor is smaller than $0.97$), and $Mcrit \sim 26 Msun$ for parameter estimation (if $M>Mcrit$, the systematic bias is larger than the {\it true} statistical uncertainty where the signal to noise ratio is $20$), respectively. In order to see the dependence on the cutoff frequency of the inspiral waveforms, we define another inspiral model $Iisco$ which is terminated at the innermost-stable-circular-orbit frequency ($fisco<fmerg$). We find that the valid criteria of the bank of $Iisco$ templates are obtained as $Mcrit \sim 15 Msun$ and $\sim 17 Msun$ for detection and parameter estimation, respectively. We investigate the statistical uncertainties for the inspiral template models considering various signal to noise ratios, and compare those to the {\it true} statistical uncertainties. We also consider the aligned-spinning system with fixed mass ratio ($m_1/m_2=3$) and spin ($\chi=0.5$) by employing the recent phenomenological model, "PhenomC".
gr-qc/0411082
Slava G. Turyshev
Slava G. Turyshev, James G. Williams, Michael Shao, John D. Anderson, Kenneth L. Nordtvedt Jr, and Thomas W. Murphy Jr
Laser Ranging to the Moon, Mars and Beyond
37 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Invited talk given at ``The 2004 NASA/JPL Workshop on Physics for Planetary Exploration.'' April 20-22, 2004, Solvang, CA
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
Current and future optical technologies will aid exploration of the Moon and Mars while advancing fundamental physics research in the solar system. Technologies and possible improvements in the laser-enabled tests of various physical phenomena are considered along with a space architecture that could be the cornerstone for robotic and human exploration of the solar system. In particular, accurate ranging to the Moon and Mars would not only lead to construction of a new space communication infrastructure enabling an improved navigational accuracy, but will also provide a significant improvement in several tests of gravitational theory: the equivalence principle, geodetic precession, PPN parameters $\beta$ and $\gamma$, and possible variation of the gravitational constant $G$. Other tests would become possible with an optical architecture that would allow proceeding from meter to centimeter to millimeter range accuracies on interplanetary distances. This paper discusses the current state and the future improvements in the tests of relativistic gravity with Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR). We also consider precision gravitational tests with the future laser ranging to Mars and discuss optical design of the proposed Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity (LATOR) mission. We emphasize that already existing capabilities can offer significant improvements not only in the tests of fundamental physics, but may also establish the infrastructure for space exploration in the near future. Looking to future exploration, what characteristics are desired for the next generation of ranging devices, what is the optimal architecture that would benefit both space exploration and fundamental physics, and what fundamental questions can be investigated? We try to answer these questions.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:40:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Turyshev", "Slava G.", "" ], [ "Williams", "James G.", "" ], [ "Shao", "Michael", "" ], [ "Anderson", "John D.", "" ], [ "Nordtvedt", "Kenneth L.", "Jr" ], [ "Murphy", "Thomas W.", "Jr" ] ]
Current and future optical technologies will aid exploration of the Moon and Mars while advancing fundamental physics research in the solar system. Technologies and possible improvements in the laser-enabled tests of various physical phenomena are considered along with a space architecture that could be the cornerstone for robotic and human exploration of the solar system. In particular, accurate ranging to the Moon and Mars would not only lead to construction of a new space communication infrastructure enabling an improved navigational accuracy, but will also provide a significant improvement in several tests of gravitational theory: the equivalence principle, geodetic precession, PPN parameters $\beta$ and $\gamma$, and possible variation of the gravitational constant $G$. Other tests would become possible with an optical architecture that would allow proceeding from meter to centimeter to millimeter range accuracies on interplanetary distances. This paper discusses the current state and the future improvements in the tests of relativistic gravity with Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR). We also consider precision gravitational tests with the future laser ranging to Mars and discuss optical design of the proposed Laser Astrometric Test of Relativity (LATOR) mission. We emphasize that already existing capabilities can offer significant improvements not only in the tests of fundamental physics, but may also establish the infrastructure for space exploration in the near future. Looking to future exploration, what characteristics are desired for the next generation of ranging devices, what is the optimal architecture that would benefit both space exploration and fundamental physics, and what fundamental questions can be investigated? We try to answer these questions.
2112.10813
Subenoy Chakraborty
Akash Bose, Subenoy Chakraborty
Is warm inflation quasi-stable?
11 Pages
Phys.Dark Univ. 35 (2022) 100938
10.1016/j.dark.2021.100938
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The present work deals with a non-equilibrium thermodynamics that is associated with the scenario of warm inflation. The premise is that an adiabatic radiation production process holds exactly i.e. the radiation dilution is exactly counterbalanced by a dissipation term. Under this hypothesis, it is found that radiation particle number, temperature, radiation energy density and pressure are all conserved -- a contradiction to the very nature of the warm inflation dynamics. However, such exact adiabatic radiation production process never happens in any realistic analysis of warm inflation. In the slow roll approximation this holds at best at the zeroth order. Finally it is shown that a variable cosmological constant may accommodate the quasi-stable process in warm inflation with non-equilibrium thermodynamic description.
[ { "created": "Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:25:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-12-22
[ [ "Bose", "Akash", "" ], [ "Chakraborty", "Subenoy", "" ] ]
The present work deals with a non-equilibrium thermodynamics that is associated with the scenario of warm inflation. The premise is that an adiabatic radiation production process holds exactly i.e. the radiation dilution is exactly counterbalanced by a dissipation term. Under this hypothesis, it is found that radiation particle number, temperature, radiation energy density and pressure are all conserved -- a contradiction to the very nature of the warm inflation dynamics. However, such exact adiabatic radiation production process never happens in any realistic analysis of warm inflation. In the slow roll approximation this holds at best at the zeroth order. Finally it is shown that a variable cosmological constant may accommodate the quasi-stable process in warm inflation with non-equilibrium thermodynamic description.
1603.07267
Burkhard Kleihaus
Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz
Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (Black Strings and Black Rings)
Report on the session Black Holes in Higher Dimensions of the MG14 meeting; references added
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The last three years have again seen new exciting developments in the area of higher dimensional black objects. For black objects with noncompact higher dimensions, the solution space was exlored further within the blackfold approach and with numerical schemes, yielding a large variety of new families of solutions, while limiting procedures created so-called super-entropic black holes. Concerning compact extra dimensions, the sequences of static nonuniform black strings in five and six dimensions were extended to impressively large values of the nonuniformity parameter with extreme numerical precision, showing that an oscillating pattern arises for the mass, the area or the temperature, while approaching the conjectured double-cone merger solution. Besides the presentation of interesting new types of higherdimensional solutions, also their physical properties were addressed in this session. While the main focus was on Einstein gravity, a significant number of talks also covered Lovelock theories.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:56:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:31:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-04-04
[ [ "Kleihaus", "Burkhard", "" ], [ "Kunz", "Jutta", "" ] ]
The last three years have again seen new exciting developments in the area of higher dimensional black objects. For black objects with noncompact higher dimensions, the solution space was exlored further within the blackfold approach and with numerical schemes, yielding a large variety of new families of solutions, while limiting procedures created so-called super-entropic black holes. Concerning compact extra dimensions, the sequences of static nonuniform black strings in five and six dimensions were extended to impressively large values of the nonuniformity parameter with extreme numerical precision, showing that an oscillating pattern arises for the mass, the area or the temperature, while approaching the conjectured double-cone merger solution. Besides the presentation of interesting new types of higherdimensional solutions, also their physical properties were addressed in this session. While the main focus was on Einstein gravity, a significant number of talks also covered Lovelock theories.
2307.12824
Bogeun Gwak
Kihong Kwon, Juli\'an Barrag\'an Amado, Bogeun Gwak
Absorption cross section in gravity's rainbow from confluent Heun equation
19 pages
Class.Quant.Grav. 41 (2024) 035005
10.1088/1361-6382/ad1b92
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the scattering of a massless scalar field by a charged non-rotating black hole in the presence of gravity's rainbow. Using the connection coefficients of the confluent Heun equation expressed in terms of the semi-classical confluent conformal blocks and the instanton part of the Nekrasov-Shatashvili (NS) free energy, we obtain an asymptotic expansion for the low-energy absorption cross section.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:22:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-01-19
[ [ "Kwon", "Kihong", "" ], [ "Amado", "Julián Barragán", "" ], [ "Gwak", "Bogeun", "" ] ]
We investigate the scattering of a massless scalar field by a charged non-rotating black hole in the presence of gravity's rainbow. Using the connection coefficients of the confluent Heun equation expressed in terms of the semi-classical confluent conformal blocks and the instanton part of the Nekrasov-Shatashvili (NS) free energy, we obtain an asymptotic expansion for the low-energy absorption cross section.
0808.1602
Sachie Shiomi
Sachie Shiomi
Proposal for a geophysical search for dilatonic waves
null
Phys.Rev.D78:042001,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.042001
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a new method of searching for the composition-dependent dilatonic waves, predicted by unified theories of strings. In this method, Earth's surface-gravity changes due to translational motions of its inner core, excited by dilatonic waves, are searched for by using superconducting gravimeters. This method has its best sensitivity at the frequency of $\sim$ 7 $\times$ 10$^{-5}$ Hz, which is lower than the sensitive frequencies of previous proposals using gravitational-wave detectors: $\sim$ 10 to 1000 Hz. Using available results of surface-gravity measurements with superconducting gravimeters and assuming a simple Earth model, we present preliminary upper limits on the energy density of a stochastic background of massless dilatons at the low frequency. Though the results are currently limited by the uncertainty in the Earth model, this method has a potential of detecting dilatonic waves in a new window.
[ { "created": "Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:03:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-04-15
[ [ "Shiomi", "Sachie", "" ] ]
We propose a new method of searching for the composition-dependent dilatonic waves, predicted by unified theories of strings. In this method, Earth's surface-gravity changes due to translational motions of its inner core, excited by dilatonic waves, are searched for by using superconducting gravimeters. This method has its best sensitivity at the frequency of $\sim$ 7 $\times$ 10$^{-5}$ Hz, which is lower than the sensitive frequencies of previous proposals using gravitational-wave detectors: $\sim$ 10 to 1000 Hz. Using available results of surface-gravity measurements with superconducting gravimeters and assuming a simple Earth model, we present preliminary upper limits on the energy density of a stochastic background of massless dilatons at the low frequency. Though the results are currently limited by the uncertainty in the Earth model, this method has a potential of detecting dilatonic waves in a new window.
1606.04481
Celio Muniz
M. S. Cunha, C. R. Muniz, H. R. Christiansen, and V. B. Bezerra
Relativistic Landau Levels in the Rotating Cosmic String Spacetime
Writing and grammar revised. References added. 14 pages, no figures. To appear in European Phys. J. C
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4357-5
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the spacetime induced by a rotating cosmic string we compute the energy levels of a massive spinless particle coupled covariantly to a homogeneous magnetic field parallel to the string. Afterwards, we consider the addition of a scalar potential with a Coulomb-type and a linear confining term and completely solve the Klein-Gordon equations for each configuration. Finally, assuming rigid-wall boundary conditions, we find the Landau levels when the linear defect is itself magnetized. Remarkably, our analysis reveals that the Landau quantization occurs even in the absence of gauge fields provided the string is endowed with spin.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:05:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:56:41 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:55:54 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2016-10-12
[ [ "Cunha", "M. S.", "" ], [ "Muniz", "C. R.", "" ], [ "Christiansen", "H. R.", "" ], [ "Bezerra", "V. B.", "" ] ]
In the spacetime induced by a rotating cosmic string we compute the energy levels of a massive spinless particle coupled covariantly to a homogeneous magnetic field parallel to the string. Afterwards, we consider the addition of a scalar potential with a Coulomb-type and a linear confining term and completely solve the Klein-Gordon equations for each configuration. Finally, assuming rigid-wall boundary conditions, we find the Landau levels when the linear defect is itself magnetized. Remarkably, our analysis reveals that the Landau quantization occurs even in the absence of gauge fields provided the string is endowed with spin.
2111.00212
Mohammad Atazadeh
K. Atazadeh
Maximum force conjecture in Kiselev, $4$D-EGB and Barrow corrected-entropy black holes
7 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Lett. B 820 (2021) 136590
10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136590
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The classical maximum force bound in the general relativity (GR) is defined between two black holes with touching horizons. We consider the maximum force conjecture for Kiselev solution that the black holes surrounded by quintessential matter, $w=-2/3$. We show that the maximum force bound is independent of black hole masses in this solution and we also indicate that when two black holes surrounded by static quintessence, the maximum force between them can approach to zero. In continue, we also study the maximum force bound for $4$D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet ($4$D-EGB) black holes and we obtain that in this theory the maximum force bound exists and the force is bigger than the maximum force in GR. Finally, we consider the Barrow entropy in the framework of the entropic force theories and find that the maximum force only holds when the exponent of the corrected-entropy, namely $\Delta$, goes to zero and for other ranges of $\Delta$ it does not hold in which the mass dependence in the maximum force bound may cause the formation of naked singularities.
[ { "created": "Sat, 30 Oct 2021 09:18:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-11-02
[ [ "Atazadeh", "K.", "" ] ]
The classical maximum force bound in the general relativity (GR) is defined between two black holes with touching horizons. We consider the maximum force conjecture for Kiselev solution that the black holes surrounded by quintessential matter, $w=-2/3$. We show that the maximum force bound is independent of black hole masses in this solution and we also indicate that when two black holes surrounded by static quintessence, the maximum force between them can approach to zero. In continue, we also study the maximum force bound for $4$D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet ($4$D-EGB) black holes and we obtain that in this theory the maximum force bound exists and the force is bigger than the maximum force in GR. Finally, we consider the Barrow entropy in the framework of the entropic force theories and find that the maximum force only holds when the exponent of the corrected-entropy, namely $\Delta$, goes to zero and for other ranges of $\Delta$ it does not hold in which the mass dependence in the maximum force bound may cause the formation of naked singularities.
gr-qc/0005115
Samuli Hemming
Samuli Hemming and Esko Keski-Vakkuri
Hawking Radiation from AdS Black Holes
13 pages, latex2e, v2: some clarifications and references added
Phys.Rev.D64:044006,2001
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.044006
HIP-2000-25/TH
gr-qc
null
We investigate Hawking radiation from black holes in (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. We focus on s-waves, make use of the geometrical optics approximation, and follow three approaches to analyze the radiation. First, we compute a Bogoliubov transformation between Kruskal and asymptotic coordinates and compare the different vacua. Second, following a method due to Kraus, Parikh, and Wilczek, we view Hawking radiation as a tunneling process across the horizon and compute the tunneling probablility. This approach uses an anti-de Sitter version of a metric originally introduced by Painleve for Schwarzschild black holes. From the tunneling probability one also finds a leading correction to the semi-classical emission rate arising from the backreaction to the background geometry. Finally, we consider a spherically symmetric collapse geometry and the Bogoliubov transformation between the initial vacuum state and the vacuum of an asymptotic observer.
[ { "created": "Thu, 25 May 2000 08:41:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:08:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Hemming", "Samuli", "" ], [ "Keski-Vakkuri", "Esko", "" ] ]
We investigate Hawking radiation from black holes in (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. We focus on s-waves, make use of the geometrical optics approximation, and follow three approaches to analyze the radiation. First, we compute a Bogoliubov transformation between Kruskal and asymptotic coordinates and compare the different vacua. Second, following a method due to Kraus, Parikh, and Wilczek, we view Hawking radiation as a tunneling process across the horizon and compute the tunneling probablility. This approach uses an anti-de Sitter version of a metric originally introduced by Painleve for Schwarzschild black holes. From the tunneling probability one also finds a leading correction to the semi-classical emission rate arising from the backreaction to the background geometry. Finally, we consider a spherically symmetric collapse geometry and the Bogoliubov transformation between the initial vacuum state and the vacuum of an asymptotic observer.
gr-qc/9405075
Gil Lewis
Gilbert N. Lewis (Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan and Richard N. Lewis)
The Behavior of a Spherical Hole in an Infinite Uniform Universe
32 pages, LaTex, 3 postscript figures, MTU-MA-94-001
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
In this paper, the behavior of a spherical hole in an otherwise infinite and uniform universe is investigated. First, the Newtonian theory is developed. The concept of negative gravity, an outward gravitational force acting away from the center of the spherical hole, is presented, and the resulting expansion of the hole is investigated. Then, the same result is derived using the techniques of Einstein's theory of general relativity. The field equations are solved for an infinite uniform universe and then for an infinite universe in which matter is uniformly distributed except for a spherical hole. Negative pressure caused by negative gravity is utilized. The physical significance of the cosmological constant is explained, and a new physical concept, that of the gravitational potential of a hole, is discussed. The relationship between the Newtonian potential for a hole and the Schwarzschild solution of the field equations is explored. Finally, the geodesic equations are considered. It is shown that photons and particles are deflected away from the hole. An application of this idea is pursued, in which a new cosmology based upon expanding holes in a uniform universe is developed. The microwave background radiation and Hubble's Law, among others, are explained. Finally, current astronomical data are used to compute a remarkably accurate value of Hubble's constant, as well as estimates of the average mass density of the universe and the cosmological constant.
[ { "created": "Tue, 31 May 1994 19:33:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "Lewis", "Gilbert N.", "", "Michigan Technological University, Houghton,\n Michigan and Richard N. Lewis" ] ]
In this paper, the behavior of a spherical hole in an otherwise infinite and uniform universe is investigated. First, the Newtonian theory is developed. The concept of negative gravity, an outward gravitational force acting away from the center of the spherical hole, is presented, and the resulting expansion of the hole is investigated. Then, the same result is derived using the techniques of Einstein's theory of general relativity. The field equations are solved for an infinite uniform universe and then for an infinite universe in which matter is uniformly distributed except for a spherical hole. Negative pressure caused by negative gravity is utilized. The physical significance of the cosmological constant is explained, and a new physical concept, that of the gravitational potential of a hole, is discussed. The relationship between the Newtonian potential for a hole and the Schwarzschild solution of the field equations is explored. Finally, the geodesic equations are considered. It is shown that photons and particles are deflected away from the hole. An application of this idea is pursued, in which a new cosmology based upon expanding holes in a uniform universe is developed. The microwave background radiation and Hubble's Law, among others, are explained. Finally, current astronomical data are used to compute a remarkably accurate value of Hubble's constant, as well as estimates of the average mass density of the universe and the cosmological constant.
1208.2228
Hal Haggard
Eugenio Bianchi and Hal M. Haggard
Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization of Space
32 pages, 10 figures
Phys.Rev. D86 (2012) 124010
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.124010
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gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce semiclassical methods into the study of the volume spectrum in loop gravity. The classical system behind a 4-valent spinnetwork node is a Euclidean tetrahedron. We investigate the tetrahedral volume dynamics on phase space and apply Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization to find the volume spectrum. The analysis shows a remarkable quantitative agreement with the volume spectrum computed in loop gravity. Moreover, it provides new geometrical insights into the degeneracy of this spectrum and the maximum and minimum eigenvalues of the volume on intertwiner space.
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2014-02-19
[ [ "Bianchi", "Eugenio", "" ], [ "Haggard", "Hal M.", "" ] ]
We introduce semiclassical methods into the study of the volume spectrum in loop gravity. The classical system behind a 4-valent spinnetwork node is a Euclidean tetrahedron. We investigate the tetrahedral volume dynamics on phase space and apply Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization to find the volume spectrum. The analysis shows a remarkable quantitative agreement with the volume spectrum computed in loop gravity. Moreover, it provides new geometrical insights into the degeneracy of this spectrum and the maximum and minimum eigenvalues of the volume on intertwiner space.