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gr-qc/9410020
null
A. H. Bilge, M. Hortacsu, N. Ozdemir
Particle Creation If a Cosmic String Snaps
10 pages, MRC.PH.17/94
Gen.Rel.Grav. 28 (1996) 511-525
10.1007/BF02105062
null
gr-qc
null
We calculate the Bogolubov coefficients for a metric which describes the snapping of a cosmic string. If we insist on a matching condition for all times {\it and} a particle interpretation, we find no particle creation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Oct 1994 15:21:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Bilge", "A. H.", "" ], [ "Hortacsu", "M.", "" ], [ "Ozdemir", "N.", "" ] ]
We calculate the Bogolubov coefficients for a metric which describes the snapping of a cosmic string. If we insist on a matching condition for all times {\it and} a particle interpretation, we find no particle creation.
0705.1369
R. R. Cuzinatto
R. Aldrovandi, R. R. Cuzinatto, L. G. Medeiros
Interacting Constituents in Cosmology
24 pages, 6 figures. It includes results presented in "Cosmic Acceleration from Elementary Interactions" [arXiv:gr-qc/0512135]. Citations added in v.2
Int.J.Mod.Phys.D17:857-879,2008
10.1142/S0218271808012541
null
gr-qc
null
Universe evolution, as described by Friedmann's equations, is determined by source terms fixed by the choice of pressure $\times$ energy-density equations of state $p(\rho)$. The usual approach in Cosmology considers equations of state accounting only for kinematic terms, ignoring the contribution from the interactions between the particles constituting the source fluid. In this work the importance of these neglected terms is emphasized. A systematic method, based on the Statistical Mechanics of real fluids, is proposed to include them. A toy-model is presented which shows how such interaction terms can engender significant cosmological effects.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 May 2007 22:21:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 May 2007 19:52:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Aldrovandi", "R.", "" ], [ "Cuzinatto", "R. R.", "" ], [ "Medeiros", "L. G.", "" ] ]
Universe evolution, as described by Friedmann's equations, is determined by source terms fixed by the choice of pressure $\times$ energy-density equations of state $p(\rho)$. The usual approach in Cosmology considers equations of state accounting only for kinematic terms, ignoring the contribution from the interactions between the particles constituting the source fluid. In this work the importance of these neglected terms is emphasized. A systematic method, based on the Statistical Mechanics of real fluids, is proposed to include them. A toy-model is presented which shows how such interaction terms can engender significant cosmological effects.
0705.1514
Duncan Brown
Duncan A. Brown
Searching for Gravitational Radiation from Binary Black Hole MACHOs in the Galactic Halo
206 pages, 64 figures. Typos corrected in Eqs. (2.104), (2.108), (2.124) and (4.3)
PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004
null
LIGO-P050015-00-R
gr-qc
null
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is one of a new generation of detectors of gravitational radiation. The existence of gravitational radiation was first predicted by Einstein in 1916, however gravitational waves have not yet been directly observed. One source of gravitation radiation is binary inspiral. Two compact bodies orbiting each other, such as a pair of black holes, lose energy to gravitational radiation. As the system loses energy the bodies spiral towards each other. This causes their orbital speed and the amount of gravitational radiation to increase, producing a characteristic ``chirp'' waveform in the LIGO sensitive band. In this thesis, matched filtering of LIGO science data is used to search for low mass binary systems in the halo of dark matter surrounding the Milky Way. Observations of gravitational microlensing events of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud suggest that some fraction of the dark matter in the halo may be in the form of Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs). It has been proposed that low mass black holes formed in the early universe may be a component of the MACHO population; some fraction of these black hole MACHOs will be in binary systems and detectable by LIGO. The inspiral from a MACHO binary composed of two 0.5 solar mass black holes enters the LIGO sensitive band around 40 Hz. The chirp signal increases in amplitude and frequency, sweeping through the sensitive band to 4400 Hz in 140 seconds. By using evidence from microlensing events and theoretical predictions of the population an upper limit is placed on the rate of black hole MACHO inspirals in the galactic halo.
[ { "created": "Thu, 10 May 2007 16:48:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Brown", "Duncan A.", "" ] ]
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is one of a new generation of detectors of gravitational radiation. The existence of gravitational radiation was first predicted by Einstein in 1916, however gravitational waves have not yet been directly observed. One source of gravitation radiation is binary inspiral. Two compact bodies orbiting each other, such as a pair of black holes, lose energy to gravitational radiation. As the system loses energy the bodies spiral towards each other. This causes their orbital speed and the amount of gravitational radiation to increase, producing a characteristic ``chirp'' waveform in the LIGO sensitive band. In this thesis, matched filtering of LIGO science data is used to search for low mass binary systems in the halo of dark matter surrounding the Milky Way. Observations of gravitational microlensing events of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud suggest that some fraction of the dark matter in the halo may be in the form of Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs). It has been proposed that low mass black holes formed in the early universe may be a component of the MACHO population; some fraction of these black hole MACHOs will be in binary systems and detectable by LIGO. The inspiral from a MACHO binary composed of two 0.5 solar mass black holes enters the LIGO sensitive band around 40 Hz. The chirp signal increases in amplitude and frequency, sweeping through the sensitive band to 4400 Hz in 140 seconds. By using evidence from microlensing events and theoretical predictions of the population an upper limit is placed on the rate of black hole MACHO inspirals in the galactic halo.
1901.11262
Sebastian V\"olkel
Sebastian H. V\"olkel and Kostas D. Kokkotas
On the Inverse Spectrum Problem of Neutron Stars
null
null
10.1088/1361-6382/ab186e
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work we revisit axial perturbations of spherically symmetric and non-rotating neutron stars. Although it has been object of many studies, it still offers new insights that are of potential interest for more realistic scenarios or in the study exotic compact objects, which have drawn much attention recently. By using WKB theory, we first derive a new Bohr-Sommerfeld rule that allows to investigate the quasi-normal mode spectrum and address the inverse spectrum problem. The pure analytical treatment of the wave equation is rather involved, because it requires the solution of the TOV equations and the non-trivial tortoise coordinate transformation depending on the underlying space-time. Therefore we provide an easy way to construct potentials that simplifies the analytical treatment, but still captures the relevant physics. The approximated potential can be used for calculations of the axial perturbation spectrum. These results are also useful in the treatment of the inverse problem. We demonstrate this by reconstructing the time-time component of the metric throughout the star and constraining the equation of state in the central region. Our method also provides an analytical explanation of the empirically known asteroseismology relation that connects the fundamental QNM and radius of a neutron star with its compactness.
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:32:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-05-22
[ [ "Völkel", "Sebastian H.", "" ], [ "Kokkotas", "Kostas D.", "" ] ]
In this work we revisit axial perturbations of spherically symmetric and non-rotating neutron stars. Although it has been object of many studies, it still offers new insights that are of potential interest for more realistic scenarios or in the study exotic compact objects, which have drawn much attention recently. By using WKB theory, we first derive a new Bohr-Sommerfeld rule that allows to investigate the quasi-normal mode spectrum and address the inverse spectrum problem. The pure analytical treatment of the wave equation is rather involved, because it requires the solution of the TOV equations and the non-trivial tortoise coordinate transformation depending on the underlying space-time. Therefore we provide an easy way to construct potentials that simplifies the analytical treatment, but still captures the relevant physics. The approximated potential can be used for calculations of the axial perturbation spectrum. These results are also useful in the treatment of the inverse problem. We demonstrate this by reconstructing the time-time component of the metric throughout the star and constraining the equation of state in the central region. Our method also provides an analytical explanation of the empirically known asteroseismology relation that connects the fundamental QNM and radius of a neutron star with its compactness.
gr-qc/9908040
David Langlois
G. L. Comer, David Langlois, Lap Ming Lin
Quasi-Normal Modes of General Relativistic Superfluid Neutron Stars
31 pages, RevTex, 17 figures
Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 104025
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.104025
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
We develop a general formalism to treat, in general relativity, the linear oscillations of a two-fluid star about static (non-rotating) configurations. Such a formalism is intended for neutron stars, whose matter content can be described, as a first approximation, by a two-fluid model: one fluid is the neutron superfluid, which is believed to exist in the core and inner crust of mature neutron stars; the other fluid is a conglomerate of all other constituents (crust nuclei, protons, electrons, etc...). We obtain a system of equations which govern the perturbations both of the metric and of the matter variables, whatever the equation of state for the two fluids. As a first application, we consider the simplified case of two non-interacting fluids, each with a polytropic equation of state. We compute numerically the quasi-normal modes (i.e. oscillations with purely outgoing gravitational radiation) of the corresponding system. When the adiabatic indices of the two fluids are different, we observe a splitting for each frequency of the analogous single fluid spectrum. The analysis also substantiates the claim that w-modes are largely due to spacetime oscillations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:19:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Comer", "G. L.", "" ], [ "Langlois", "David", "" ], [ "Lin", "Lap Ming", "" ] ]
We develop a general formalism to treat, in general relativity, the linear oscillations of a two-fluid star about static (non-rotating) configurations. Such a formalism is intended for neutron stars, whose matter content can be described, as a first approximation, by a two-fluid model: one fluid is the neutron superfluid, which is believed to exist in the core and inner crust of mature neutron stars; the other fluid is a conglomerate of all other constituents (crust nuclei, protons, electrons, etc...). We obtain a system of equations which govern the perturbations both of the metric and of the matter variables, whatever the equation of state for the two fluids. As a first application, we consider the simplified case of two non-interacting fluids, each with a polytropic equation of state. We compute numerically the quasi-normal modes (i.e. oscillations with purely outgoing gravitational radiation) of the corresponding system. When the adiabatic indices of the two fluids are different, we observe a splitting for each frequency of the analogous single fluid spectrum. The analysis also substantiates the claim that w-modes are largely due to spacetime oscillations.
gr-qc/0603015
Thomas Marlow
Thomas Marlow
Relationalism vs. Bayesianism
13 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
We compare and contrast the basic principles of two philosophies: Bayesianism and relationalism. These two philosophies are both based upon criteria of rationality. The analogy invoked in such a comparison seems rather apt when discussing tentative proofs of quantum nonlocality. We argue that Bayesianism is almost to quantum theory, what general covariance is to general relativity. This is because the Bayesian interpretation of quantum theory can be given a relational flavour.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:47:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Marlow", "Thomas", "" ] ]
We compare and contrast the basic principles of two philosophies: Bayesianism and relationalism. These two philosophies are both based upon criteria of rationality. The analogy invoked in such a comparison seems rather apt when discussing tentative proofs of quantum nonlocality. We argue that Bayesianism is almost to quantum theory, what general covariance is to general relativity. This is because the Bayesian interpretation of quantum theory can be given a relational flavour.
1906.09346
Francesco Muia
Francesco Muia, Michele Cicoli, Katy Clough, Francisco Pedro, Fernando Quevedo, Gian Paolo Vacca
The Fate of Dense Scalar Stars
null
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2019/07/044
null
gr-qc hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Long-lived pseudo-solitonic objects, known as oscillons/oscillatons, which we collectively call real scalar stars, are ubiquitous in early Universe cosmology of scalar field theories. Typical examples are axions stars and moduli stars. Using numerical simulations in full general relativity to include the effects of gravity, we study the fate of real scalar stars and find that depending on the scalar potential they are either meta-stable or collapse to black holes. In particular we find that for KKLT potentials the configurations are meta-stable despite the asymmetry of the potential, consistently with the results from lattice simulations that do not include gravitational effects. For $\alpha$-attractor potentials collapse to black holes is possible in a region of the parameter space where scalar stars would instead seem to be meta-stable or even disperse without including gravity. Each case gives rise to different cosmological implications which may affect the stochastic spectrum of gravitational waves.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Jun 2019 22:16:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-08-07
[ [ "Muia", "Francesco", "" ], [ "Cicoli", "Michele", "" ], [ "Clough", "Katy", "" ], [ "Pedro", "Francisco", "" ], [ "Quevedo", "Fernando", "" ], [ "Vacca", "Gian Paolo", "" ] ]
Long-lived pseudo-solitonic objects, known as oscillons/oscillatons, which we collectively call real scalar stars, are ubiquitous in early Universe cosmology of scalar field theories. Typical examples are axions stars and moduli stars. Using numerical simulations in full general relativity to include the effects of gravity, we study the fate of real scalar stars and find that depending on the scalar potential they are either meta-stable or collapse to black holes. In particular we find that for KKLT potentials the configurations are meta-stable despite the asymmetry of the potential, consistently with the results from lattice simulations that do not include gravitational effects. For $\alpha$-attractor potentials collapse to black holes is possible in a region of the parameter space where scalar stars would instead seem to be meta-stable or even disperse without including gravity. Each case gives rise to different cosmological implications which may affect the stochastic spectrum of gravitational waves.
2105.12313
Shuo Xin
Shuo Xin, Baoyi Chen, Rico K. L. Lo, Ling Sun, Wen-Biao Han, Xingyu Zhong, Manu Srivastava, Sizheng Ma, Qingwen Wang, and Yanbei Chen
Gravitational-wave echoes from spinning exotic compact objects: numerical waveforms from the Teukolsky equation
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.104005
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present numerical waveforms of gravitational-wave echoes from spinning exotic compact objects (ECOs) that result from binary black hole coalescence. We obtain these echoes by solving the Teukolsky equation for the $\psi_4$ associated with gravitational waves that propagate toward the horizon of a Kerr spacetime, and process the subsequent reflections of the horizon-going wave by the surface of the ECO, which lies right above the Kerr horizon. The trajectories of the infalling objects are modified from Kerr geodesics, such that the gravitational waves propagating toward future null infinity match those from merging black holes with comparable masses. In this way, the corresponding echoes approximate to those from comparable-mass mergers. For boundary conditions at the ECO surface, we adopt recent work using the membrane paradigm, which relates $\psi_0$ associated with the horizon-going wave and $\psi_4$ of the wave that leaves the ECO surface. We obtain $\psi_0$ of the horizon-going wave from $\psi_4$ using the Teukolsky-Starobinsky relation. The echoes we obtain turn out to be significantly weaker than those from previous studies that generate echo waveforms by modeling the ringdown part of binary black hole coalescence waveforms as originating from the past horizon.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 May 2021 03:25:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-11-10
[ [ "Xin", "Shuo", "" ], [ "Chen", "Baoyi", "" ], [ "Lo", "Rico K. L.", "" ], [ "Sun", "Ling", "" ], [ "Han", "Wen-Biao", "" ], [ "Zhong", "Xingyu", "" ], [ "Srivastava", "Manu", "" ], [ "Ma", "Sizheng", "" ], [ "Wang", "Qingwen", "" ], [ "Chen", "Yanbei", "" ] ]
We present numerical waveforms of gravitational-wave echoes from spinning exotic compact objects (ECOs) that result from binary black hole coalescence. We obtain these echoes by solving the Teukolsky equation for the $\psi_4$ associated with gravitational waves that propagate toward the horizon of a Kerr spacetime, and process the subsequent reflections of the horizon-going wave by the surface of the ECO, which lies right above the Kerr horizon. The trajectories of the infalling objects are modified from Kerr geodesics, such that the gravitational waves propagating toward future null infinity match those from merging black holes with comparable masses. In this way, the corresponding echoes approximate to those from comparable-mass mergers. For boundary conditions at the ECO surface, we adopt recent work using the membrane paradigm, which relates $\psi_0$ associated with the horizon-going wave and $\psi_4$ of the wave that leaves the ECO surface. We obtain $\psi_0$ of the horizon-going wave from $\psi_4$ using the Teukolsky-Starobinsky relation. The echoes we obtain turn out to be significantly weaker than those from previous studies that generate echo waveforms by modeling the ringdown part of binary black hole coalescence waveforms as originating from the past horizon.
1502.00149
Klaus Kassner
Klaus Kassner
Classroom reconstruction of the Schwarzschild metric
14 pages, 2 figures; a shortened version (omitting the Rindler metric part) has been submitted to and published in, the European Journal of Physics
K. Kassner, Eur. J. Phys. 36 (2015) 065031
10.1088/0143-0807/36/6/065031
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A promising way to introduce general relativity in the classroom is to study the physical implications of certain given metrics, such as the Schwarzschild one. This involves lower mathematical expenditure than an approach focusing on differential geometry in its full glory and permits to emphasize physical aspects before attacking the field equations. Even so, in terms of motivation, lacking justification of the metric employed may pose an obstacle. The paper discusses how to establish the weak-field limit of the Schwarzschild metric with a minimum of relatively simple physical assumptions, avoiding the field equations but admitting the determination of a single parameter from experiment. An attractive experimental candidate is the measurement of the perihelion precession of Mercury, because the result was already known before the completion of general relativity. It is shown how to determine the temporal and radial coefficients of the Schwarzschild metric to sufficiently high accuracy to obtain quantitative predictions for all the remaining classical tests of general relativity.
[ { "created": "Sat, 31 Jan 2015 18:59:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:12:55 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-09-14
[ [ "Kassner", "Klaus", "" ] ]
A promising way to introduce general relativity in the classroom is to study the physical implications of certain given metrics, such as the Schwarzschild one. This involves lower mathematical expenditure than an approach focusing on differential geometry in its full glory and permits to emphasize physical aspects before attacking the field equations. Even so, in terms of motivation, lacking justification of the metric employed may pose an obstacle. The paper discusses how to establish the weak-field limit of the Schwarzschild metric with a minimum of relatively simple physical assumptions, avoiding the field equations but admitting the determination of a single parameter from experiment. An attractive experimental candidate is the measurement of the perihelion precession of Mercury, because the result was already known before the completion of general relativity. It is shown how to determine the temporal and radial coefficients of the Schwarzschild metric to sufficiently high accuracy to obtain quantitative predictions for all the remaining classical tests of general relativity.
1709.04055
Amin Salehi
Amin.Salehi and Mojtaba.Mahmoudi fard
Bouncing universe of entropy-corrected Friedmann equations
16 pages, 20 figures
Eur. Phys. J. C (2018) 78:232
10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5727-y
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The investigation of quantum gravity effects in order to avoid the big bang singularity is a requisite, so that the idea of oscillating universes is introduced as an alternative for standard cosmological model. Therefore, the Friedmann equations arising from the quantum corrections of entropy-area relation provide the possibility of studying the oscillating universes. Addition to necessity of surveying the bouncing solutions, however, the values of unknown constant parameters are still a matter of open debate. In this paper, we consider modified Friedmann equations with logarithmic entropy corrected to evaluate singular-free cosmology solutions for any value of so- called constant pre-factors and all kinds of curved universes. The results are argued using the dynamical system techniques and by employing the phase plane analysis for full classification of the nonsingular evolutions.
[ { "created": "Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:47:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:12:36 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-04-18
[ [ "Salehi", "Amin.", "" ], [ "fard", "Mojtaba. Mahmoudi", "" ] ]
The investigation of quantum gravity effects in order to avoid the big bang singularity is a requisite, so that the idea of oscillating universes is introduced as an alternative for standard cosmological model. Therefore, the Friedmann equations arising from the quantum corrections of entropy-area relation provide the possibility of studying the oscillating universes. Addition to necessity of surveying the bouncing solutions, however, the values of unknown constant parameters are still a matter of open debate. In this paper, we consider modified Friedmann equations with logarithmic entropy corrected to evaluate singular-free cosmology solutions for any value of so- called constant pre-factors and all kinds of curved universes. The results are argued using the dynamical system techniques and by employing the phase plane analysis for full classification of the nonsingular evolutions.
2210.06195
David Brizuela
David Brizuela, Albert Duran-Cabac\'es
Relativistic effects on the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation
Version accepted for publication. We have added Refs. [20], [22], [23], and [24], and corrected several typos in the bibliography. The new Appendix B analyzes the effects produced by relativistic corrections in the Poisson equation. We have also included several clarifications, in particular in Sec. 2.2., to explain the validity of the model
Phys. Rev. D 106 (2022) 124038
10.1103/PhysRevD.106.124038
null
gr-qc quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Schr\"odinger-Newton model describes self-gravitating quantum particles, and it is often cited to explain the gravitational collapse of the wave function and the localization of macroscopic objects. However, this model is completely nonrelativistic. Thus, in order to study whether the relativistic effects may spoil the properties of this system, we derive a modification of the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation by considering certain relativistic corrections up to the first post-Newtonian order. The construction of the model begins by considering the Hamiltonian of a relativistic particle propagating on a curved background. For simplicity, the background metric is assumed to be spherically symmetric and it is then expanded up to the first post-Newtonian order. After performing the canonical quantization of the system, and following the usual interpretation, the square of the module of the wave function defines a mass distribution, which in turn is the source of the Poisson equation for the gravitational potential. As in the nonrelativistic case, this construction couples the Poisson and the Schr\"odinger equations and leads to a complicated nonlinear system. Hence, the dynamics of an initial Gaussian wave packet is then numerically analyzed. We observe that the natural dispersion of the wave function is slower than in the nonrelativistic case. Furthermore, for those cases that reach a final localized stationary state, the peak of the wave function happens to be located at a smaller radius. Therefore, the relativistic corrections effectively contribute to increase the self-gravitation of the particle and strengthen the validity of this model as an explanation for the gravitational localization of the wave function.
[ { "created": "Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:27:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 Jan 2023 13:22:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-01-04
[ [ "Brizuela", "David", "" ], [ "Duran-Cabacés", "Albert", "" ] ]
The Schr\"odinger-Newton model describes self-gravitating quantum particles, and it is often cited to explain the gravitational collapse of the wave function and the localization of macroscopic objects. However, this model is completely nonrelativistic. Thus, in order to study whether the relativistic effects may spoil the properties of this system, we derive a modification of the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation by considering certain relativistic corrections up to the first post-Newtonian order. The construction of the model begins by considering the Hamiltonian of a relativistic particle propagating on a curved background. For simplicity, the background metric is assumed to be spherically symmetric and it is then expanded up to the first post-Newtonian order. After performing the canonical quantization of the system, and following the usual interpretation, the square of the module of the wave function defines a mass distribution, which in turn is the source of the Poisson equation for the gravitational potential. As in the nonrelativistic case, this construction couples the Poisson and the Schr\"odinger equations and leads to a complicated nonlinear system. Hence, the dynamics of an initial Gaussian wave packet is then numerically analyzed. We observe that the natural dispersion of the wave function is slower than in the nonrelativistic case. Furthermore, for those cases that reach a final localized stationary state, the peak of the wave function happens to be located at a smaller radius. Therefore, the relativistic corrections effectively contribute to increase the self-gravitation of the particle and strengthen the validity of this model as an explanation for the gravitational localization of the wave function.
2303.11928
Massimo Giovannini
Massimo Giovannini
Relic gravitons and high-frequency detectors
43 pages, 13 figures; two corrections in two plots; comments added
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2023/05/056
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-ex hep-ph hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cosmic gravitons are expected in the MHz-GHz regions that are currently unreachable by the operating wide-band interferometers and where various classes of electromechanical detectors have been proposed through the years. The minimal chirp amplitude detectable by these instruments is often set on the basis of the sensitivities reachable by the detectors currently operating in the audio band. By combining the observations of the pulsar timing arrays, the limits from wide-band detectors and the other phenomenological bounds we show that this requirement is far too generous and even misleading since the actual detection of relic gravitons well above the kHz would demand chirp and spectral amplitudes that are ten or even fifteen orders of magnitude smaller than the ones currently achievable in the audio band, for the same classes of stochastic sources. We then examine more closely the potential high-frequency signals and show that the sensitivity in the chirp and spectral amplitudes must be even smaller than the ones suggested by the direct and indirect constraints on the cosmic gravitons. We finally analyze the high-frequency detectors in the framework of Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometry and argue that they are actually more essential than the ones operating in the audio band (i.e. between few Hz and few kHz) if we want to investigate the quantumness of the relic gravitons and their associated second-order correlation effects. We suggest, in particular, how the statistical properties of thermal and non-thermal gravitons can be distinguished by studying the corresponding second-order interference effects.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:29:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Jun 2023 20:50:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-06-12
[ [ "Giovannini", "Massimo", "" ] ]
Cosmic gravitons are expected in the MHz-GHz regions that are currently unreachable by the operating wide-band interferometers and where various classes of electromechanical detectors have been proposed through the years. The minimal chirp amplitude detectable by these instruments is often set on the basis of the sensitivities reachable by the detectors currently operating in the audio band. By combining the observations of the pulsar timing arrays, the limits from wide-band detectors and the other phenomenological bounds we show that this requirement is far too generous and even misleading since the actual detection of relic gravitons well above the kHz would demand chirp and spectral amplitudes that are ten or even fifteen orders of magnitude smaller than the ones currently achievable in the audio band, for the same classes of stochastic sources. We then examine more closely the potential high-frequency signals and show that the sensitivity in the chirp and spectral amplitudes must be even smaller than the ones suggested by the direct and indirect constraints on the cosmic gravitons. We finally analyze the high-frequency detectors in the framework of Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometry and argue that they are actually more essential than the ones operating in the audio band (i.e. between few Hz and few kHz) if we want to investigate the quantumness of the relic gravitons and their associated second-order correlation effects. We suggest, in particular, how the statistical properties of thermal and non-thermal gravitons can be distinguished by studying the corresponding second-order interference effects.
gr-qc/0211089
Allan Joseph Medved
Gilad Gour and A.J.M. Medved
Kerr Black Hole as a Quantum Rotator
15 pages, Revtex
Class.Quant.Grav.20:2261-2274,2003
10.1088/0264-9381/20/11/321
null
gr-qc hep-th quant-ph
null
It has been proposed by Bekenstein and others that the horizon area of a black hole conforms, upon quantization, to a discrete and uniformly spaced spectrum. In this paper, we consider the area spectrum for the highly non-trivial case of a rotating (Kerr) black hole solution. Following a prior work by Barvinsky, Das and Kunstatter, we are able to express the area spectrum in terms of an integer-valued quantum number and an angular-momentum operator. Moreover, by using an analogy between the Kerr black hole and a quantum rotator, we are able to quantize the angular-momentum sector. We find the area spectrum to be $A_{n,J_{cl}}=8\pi\hbar(n+J_{cl}+1/2)$, where $n$ and $J_{cl}$ are both integers. The quantum number $J_{cl}$ is related to but distinct from the eigenvalue $j$ of the angular momentum of the black hole. Actually, it represents the ``classical'' angular momentum and, for $J_{cl}\gg 1$, $J_{cl}\approx j$.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:18:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Gour", "Gilad", "" ], [ "Medved", "A. J. M.", "" ] ]
It has been proposed by Bekenstein and others that the horizon area of a black hole conforms, upon quantization, to a discrete and uniformly spaced spectrum. In this paper, we consider the area spectrum for the highly non-trivial case of a rotating (Kerr) black hole solution. Following a prior work by Barvinsky, Das and Kunstatter, we are able to express the area spectrum in terms of an integer-valued quantum number and an angular-momentum operator. Moreover, by using an analogy between the Kerr black hole and a quantum rotator, we are able to quantize the angular-momentum sector. We find the area spectrum to be $A_{n,J_{cl}}=8\pi\hbar(n+J_{cl}+1/2)$, where $n$ and $J_{cl}$ are both integers. The quantum number $J_{cl}$ is related to but distinct from the eigenvalue $j$ of the angular momentum of the black hole. Actually, it represents the ``classical'' angular momentum and, for $J_{cl}\gg 1$, $J_{cl}\approx j$.
1506.00101
Romain Gicquaud
Piotr Chru\'sciel and Romain Gicquaud
Bifurcating solutions of the Lichnerowicz equation
33 pages, 25 figures
null
null
null
gr-qc math.AP math.DG
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give an exhaustive description of bifurcations and of the number of solutions of the vacuum Lichnerowicz equation with positive cosmological constant on $S^1\times S^2$ with $U(1)\times SO(3)$-invariant seed data. The resulting CMC slicings of Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Nariai are described.
[ { "created": "Sat, 30 May 2015 10:29:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:07:03 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:07:44 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2016-04-12
[ [ "Chruściel", "Piotr", "" ], [ "Gicquaud", "Romain", "" ] ]
We give an exhaustive description of bifurcations and of the number of solutions of the vacuum Lichnerowicz equation with positive cosmological constant on $S^1\times S^2$ with $U(1)\times SO(3)$-invariant seed data. The resulting CMC slicings of Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Nariai are described.
gr-qc/0608045
Guihua Tian
Tian Gui-hua, Shi-kun Wang, Shuquan Zhong
The stable problem in the Rindler space-time
null
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
We carefully study the stable problem of the Rindler space time by the scalar wave perturbation. Using the two different coordinate systems, the scalar wave equation is investigated. The results are different in these two cases. They are analyzed and compared in detail. The conclusions are: (a) the Rindler space time as a whole is not stable; (b) the Rindler space time could exist stably only as a part of the Minkowski space time, and the Minkowski space time could be a real entity independently; (c) there are some defects for the scalar wave equation written by the Rindler coordinates, and it is unsuitable for investigation of the stable properties of the Rindler space time. All these results might shed some lights on the stable properties of the Schwarzschild black hole. It is natural and not unreasonable for one to infer that: (a) perhaps the Regge-Wheeler equation is not sufficient to decide the stable properties; (b) the Schwarzschild black hole as a whole might be really unstable; (c) the Kruskal space time is stable and can exist as a real physical entity ; whereas the Schwarzschild black hole could occur only as part of the Kruskal space time.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:29:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Gui-hua", "Tian", "" ], [ "Wang", "Shi-kun", "" ], [ "Zhong", "Shuquan", "" ] ]
We carefully study the stable problem of the Rindler space time by the scalar wave perturbation. Using the two different coordinate systems, the scalar wave equation is investigated. The results are different in these two cases. They are analyzed and compared in detail. The conclusions are: (a) the Rindler space time as a whole is not stable; (b) the Rindler space time could exist stably only as a part of the Minkowski space time, and the Minkowski space time could be a real entity independently; (c) there are some defects for the scalar wave equation written by the Rindler coordinates, and it is unsuitable for investigation of the stable properties of the Rindler space time. All these results might shed some lights on the stable properties of the Schwarzschild black hole. It is natural and not unreasonable for one to infer that: (a) perhaps the Regge-Wheeler equation is not sufficient to decide the stable properties; (b) the Schwarzschild black hole as a whole might be really unstable; (c) the Kruskal space time is stable and can exist as a real physical entity ; whereas the Schwarzschild black hole could occur only as part of the Kruskal space time.
1803.02344
Milko Estrada
Milko Estrada, Francisco Tello-Ortiz
A new family of analytical anisotropic solutions by gravitational decoupling
null
Eur.Phys.J.Plus 133 (2018) no.11, 453
10.1140/epjp/i2018-12249-9
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
This work is focused in the study of analytic anisotropic solutions to Einstein's field equations, describing spherically symmetric and static configurations by way of the gravitational decoupling through the method of Minimal Geometric Deformation (MGD). For this we apply MGD to Heintzmann's solution obtaining two new analytic and well behaved anisotropic solutions, in which all their parameters such as the effective density, the effective radial and tangential pressure, as well as radial and tangential sound speed, fulfill each of the requirements for the physical acceptability available in the literature.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Mar 2018 18:57:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 7 Apr 2018 22:50:39 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 12 May 2018 23:49:42 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:42:33 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2019-03-27
[ [ "Estrada", "Milko", "" ], [ "Tello-Ortiz", "Francisco", "" ] ]
This work is focused in the study of analytic anisotropic solutions to Einstein's field equations, describing spherically symmetric and static configurations by way of the gravitational decoupling through the method of Minimal Geometric Deformation (MGD). For this we apply MGD to Heintzmann's solution obtaining two new analytic and well behaved anisotropic solutions, in which all their parameters such as the effective density, the effective radial and tangential pressure, as well as radial and tangential sound speed, fulfill each of the requirements for the physical acceptability available in the literature.
gr-qc/9302012
Gisele Murphy
Maximo Banados, Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim, Jorge Zanelli
Geometry of the 2+1 Black Hole
51 pages, (LaTex file, figures not included, for hard copy figures, contact: murphy@iassns.bitnet), Institute for Advanced Study #HEP.92/81
Phys.Rev.D48:1506-1525,1993
10.1103/PhysRevD.48.1506
null
gr-qc
null
The geometry of the spinning black holes of standard Einstein theory in 2+1 dimensions, with a negative cosmological constant and without couplings to matter, is analyzed in detail. It is shown that the black hole arises from identifications of points of anti-de Sitter space by a discrete subgroup of $SO(2,2)$. The generic black hole is a smooth manifold in the metric sense. The surface $r=0$ is not a curvature singularity but, rather, a singularity in the causal structure. Continuing past it would introduce closed timelike lines. However, simple examples show the regularity of the metric at $r=0$ to be unstable: couplings to matter bring in a curvature singularity there. Kruskal coordinates and Penrose diagrams are exhibited. Special attention is given to the limiting cases of (i) the spinless hole of zero mass, which differs from anti-de Sitter space and plays the role of the vacuum, and (ii) the spinning hole of maximal angular momentum . A thorough classification of the elements of the Lie algebra of $SO(2,2)$ is given in an Appendix.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Feb 1993 15:26:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-12-30
[ [ "Banados", "Maximo", "" ], [ "Henneaux", "Marc", "" ], [ "Teitelboim", "Claudio", "" ], [ "Zanelli", "Jorge", "" ] ]
The geometry of the spinning black holes of standard Einstein theory in 2+1 dimensions, with a negative cosmological constant and without couplings to matter, is analyzed in detail. It is shown that the black hole arises from identifications of points of anti-de Sitter space by a discrete subgroup of $SO(2,2)$. The generic black hole is a smooth manifold in the metric sense. The surface $r=0$ is not a curvature singularity but, rather, a singularity in the causal structure. Continuing past it would introduce closed timelike lines. However, simple examples show the regularity of the metric at $r=0$ to be unstable: couplings to matter bring in a curvature singularity there. Kruskal coordinates and Penrose diagrams are exhibited. Special attention is given to the limiting cases of (i) the spinless hole of zero mass, which differs from anti-de Sitter space and plays the role of the vacuum, and (ii) the spinning hole of maximal angular momentum . A thorough classification of the elements of the Lie algebra of $SO(2,2)$ is given in an Appendix.
2312.04723
Gil de Oliveira-Neto
Vinicius G. Oliveira, Gil de Oliveira-Neto and Ilya L. Shapiro
Kantoswki-Sachs model with a running cosmological constant and radiation
The paper has 16 pages and 16 figures
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The simplest anisotropic model of the early Universe is the one with two conformal factors, which can be identified as Kantowski-Sachs metric, or the reduced version of the Bianchi-I metric. To fit the existing observational data, it is important that the anisotropy is washed out in the early stage of the evolution. We explore the possible effect of the running cosmological constant (RCC) on the dynamics of isotropy, in the case of the space filled by radiation.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Dec 2023 22:06:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-12-11
[ [ "Oliveira", "Vinicius G.", "" ], [ "de Oliveira-Neto", "Gil", "" ], [ "Shapiro", "Ilya L.", "" ] ]
The simplest anisotropic model of the early Universe is the one with two conformal factors, which can be identified as Kantowski-Sachs metric, or the reduced version of the Bianchi-I metric. To fit the existing observational data, it is important that the anisotropy is washed out in the early stage of the evolution. We explore the possible effect of the running cosmological constant (RCC) on the dynamics of isotropy, in the case of the space filled by radiation.
gr-qc/0702140
Eitan Bachmat
Eitan Bachmat
Discrete spacetime and its applications
null
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
We survey some results about the asymptotic behavior of discrete spacetime models, which appeared in diverse settings in the physics and math literature. We then discuss some recent applications, including scheduling in disk drives and analysis of airplane boarding strategies.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:54:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Bachmat", "Eitan", "" ] ]
We survey some results about the asymptotic behavior of discrete spacetime models, which appeared in diverse settings in the physics and math literature. We then discuss some recent applications, including scheduling in disk drives and analysis of airplane boarding strategies.
2209.02252
Ryo Saito
Atsushi Naruko, Ryo Saito, Norihiro Tanahashi, Daisuke Yamauchi
Ostrogradsky mode in scalar-tensor theories with higher-order derivative couplings to matter
14+4 pages, no figures: published version: A typo in eq. (38) of the first version is corrected. As a result, a broader class of the matter metric becomes consistent with the degeneracy and invertible conditions
PTEP 2023 (2023) 5, 053E02
10.1093/ptep/ptad049
YITP-22-94
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
A metric transformation is a tool to find a new theory of gravity beyond general relativity. The gravity action is guaranteed to be free from a dangerous Ostrogradsky mode as long as the metric transformation is regular and invertible. Various degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor theories (DHOST) without extra degrees of freedom have been found through the metric transformation with a scalar field and its derivatives. In this work, we examine how a matter coupling changes the degeneracy for a theory generated from the Horndeski theory through the metric transformation with the second derivative of a scalar field, taking a minimally-coupled free scalar field as the matter field. When the transformation is invertible, this theory is equivalent to the Horndeski theory with a higher-order derivative coupling to the matter scalar field. Working in this Horndeski frame and the unitary gauge, we find that the degeneracy conditions are solvable and the matter metric must have a certain structure to remove the Ostrogradsky mode.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Sep 2022 06:58:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 4 Aug 2023 09:05:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-08-07
[ [ "Naruko", "Atsushi", "" ], [ "Saito", "Ryo", "" ], [ "Tanahashi", "Norihiro", "" ], [ "Yamauchi", "Daisuke", "" ] ]
A metric transformation is a tool to find a new theory of gravity beyond general relativity. The gravity action is guaranteed to be free from a dangerous Ostrogradsky mode as long as the metric transformation is regular and invertible. Various degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor theories (DHOST) without extra degrees of freedom have been found through the metric transformation with a scalar field and its derivatives. In this work, we examine how a matter coupling changes the degeneracy for a theory generated from the Horndeski theory through the metric transformation with the second derivative of a scalar field, taking a minimally-coupled free scalar field as the matter field. When the transformation is invertible, this theory is equivalent to the Horndeski theory with a higher-order derivative coupling to the matter scalar field. Working in this Horndeski frame and the unitary gauge, we find that the degeneracy conditions are solvable and the matter metric must have a certain structure to remove the Ostrogradsky mode.
gr-qc/0108061
Jose Natario
Jose Natario
Linking and causality in (2+1)-dimensional static spacetimes
13 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected, 2 figures added
Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 3115-3126
10.1088/0264-9381/19/12/301
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Given a (d+1)-dimensional spacetime (M,g), one can consider the set N of all its null geodesics. If (M,g) is globally hyperbolic then this set is naturally a smooth (2d-1)-manifold. The sky of an event x in M is the set X of all null geodesics through x, and is an embedded submanifold of N diffeomorphic to S^{d-1}. Low conjectured that if d=2 then x,y are causally related in M iff X,Y are linked in N. We prove Low's conjecture for a (large) class of static spacetimes.
[ { "created": "Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:11:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:50:37 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:20:10 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2012-07-16
[ [ "Natario", "Jose", "" ] ]
Given a (d+1)-dimensional spacetime (M,g), one can consider the set N of all its null geodesics. If (M,g) is globally hyperbolic then this set is naturally a smooth (2d-1)-manifold. The sky of an event x in M is the set X of all null geodesics through x, and is an embedded submanifold of N diffeomorphic to S^{d-1}. Low conjectured that if d=2 then x,y are causally related in M iff X,Y are linked in N. We prove Low's conjecture for a (large) class of static spacetimes.
gr-qc/9810065
Thomas Baumgarte
Thomas W. Baumgarte and Stuart L. Shapiro
On the Numerical Integration of Einstein's Field Equations
7 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 024007
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.024007
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
Many numerical codes now under development to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity in 3+1 dimensional spacetimes employ the standard ADM form of the field equations. This form involves evolution equations for the raw spatial metric and extrinsic curvature tensors. Following Shibata and Nakamura, we modify these equations by factoring out the conformal factor and introducing three ``connection functions''. The evolution equations can then be reduced to wave equations for the conformal metric components, which are coupled to evolution equations for the connection functions. We evolve small amplitude gravitational waves and make a direct comparison of the numerical performance of the modified equations with the standard ADM equations. We find that the modified form exhibits much improved stability.
[ { "created": "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:51:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Baumgarte", "Thomas W.", "" ], [ "Shapiro", "Stuart L.", "" ] ]
Many numerical codes now under development to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity in 3+1 dimensional spacetimes employ the standard ADM form of the field equations. This form involves evolution equations for the raw spatial metric and extrinsic curvature tensors. Following Shibata and Nakamura, we modify these equations by factoring out the conformal factor and introducing three ``connection functions''. The evolution equations can then be reduced to wave equations for the conformal metric components, which are coupled to evolution equations for the connection functions. We evolve small amplitude gravitational waves and make a direct comparison of the numerical performance of the modified equations with the standard ADM equations. We find that the modified form exhibits much improved stability.
1906.10544
Benrong Mu
Benrong Mu, Jun Tao and Peng Wang
Minimal Length Effect on Thermodynamics and Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in anti-de Sitter Black Holes via Charged Particle Absorption
21 pages. version accepted for publication in AHEP
Advances in High Energy Physics, vol. 2020, Article ID 2612946, 9 pages, 2020
10.1155/2020/2612946
CTP-SCU/2019008
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we investigate minimal length effects on the thermodynamics and weak cosmic censorship conjecture in a RN-AdS black bole via charged particle absorption. We first use the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) to investigate the minimal length effect on the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. After the deformed Hamilton-Jacobi equation is derived, we use it to study the variations of the thermodynamic quantities of a RN-Ads black hole via absorbing a charged practice. Furthermore, we check the second law of thermodynamics and the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in two phase spaces. In the normal phase space, the second law of thermodynamics and the weak cosmic censorship conjecture are satisfied in the usual and GUP deformed cases, and the minimal length effect makes the increase of entropy faster than the usual case. After the charge particle absorption, the extremal RN-AdS black hole becomes non-extremal. In the extended phase space, the black hole entropy can either increase or decrease. When $T>2Pr_{+}$, the second law is satisfied. When $T<2Pr_{+}$, the second law of thermodynamics is violated for the extremal or near-extremal black hole. Finally, we find that the weak cosmic censorship conjecture is legal for extremal and near-extremal RN-Ads black holes in the GUP deformed case.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:40:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 27 Jun 2019 07:25:43 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:34:50 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-03-16
[ [ "Mu", "Benrong", "" ], [ "Tao", "Jun", "" ], [ "Wang", "Peng", "" ] ]
In this paper, we investigate minimal length effects on the thermodynamics and weak cosmic censorship conjecture in a RN-AdS black bole via charged particle absorption. We first use the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) to investigate the minimal length effect on the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. After the deformed Hamilton-Jacobi equation is derived, we use it to study the variations of the thermodynamic quantities of a RN-Ads black hole via absorbing a charged practice. Furthermore, we check the second law of thermodynamics and the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in two phase spaces. In the normal phase space, the second law of thermodynamics and the weak cosmic censorship conjecture are satisfied in the usual and GUP deformed cases, and the minimal length effect makes the increase of entropy faster than the usual case. After the charge particle absorption, the extremal RN-AdS black hole becomes non-extremal. In the extended phase space, the black hole entropy can either increase or decrease. When $T>2Pr_{+}$, the second law is satisfied. When $T<2Pr_{+}$, the second law of thermodynamics is violated for the extremal or near-extremal black hole. Finally, we find that the weak cosmic censorship conjecture is legal for extremal and near-extremal RN-Ads black holes in the GUP deformed case.
gr-qc/0401045
Carlos O. Lousto
C. O. Lousto and R. H. Price
Radiation content of Conformally flat initial data
4 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 087503
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.087503
UTBRG-2004-001
gr-qc
null
We study the radiation of energy and linear momentum emitted to infinity by the headon collision of binary black holes, starting from rest at a finite initial separation, in the extreme mass ratio limit. For these configurations we identify the radiation produced by the initially conformally flat choice of the three geometry. This identification suggests that the radiated energy and momentum of headon collisions will not be dominated by the details of the initial data for evolution of holes from initial proper separations $L_0\geq7M$. For non-headon orbits, where the amount of radiation is orders of magnitude larger, the conformally flat initial data may provide a relative even better approximation.
[ { "created": "Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:12:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Lousto", "C. O.", "" ], [ "Price", "R. H.", "" ] ]
We study the radiation of energy and linear momentum emitted to infinity by the headon collision of binary black holes, starting from rest at a finite initial separation, in the extreme mass ratio limit. For these configurations we identify the radiation produced by the initially conformally flat choice of the three geometry. This identification suggests that the radiated energy and momentum of headon collisions will not be dominated by the details of the initial data for evolution of holes from initial proper separations $L_0\geq7M$. For non-headon orbits, where the amount of radiation is orders of magnitude larger, the conformally flat initial data may provide a relative even better approximation.
2103.11365
Cosimo Bambi
Cosimo Bambi
Testing General Relativity with black hole X-ray data: recent progress and future developments
4 pages, 2 figures; contribution to the 2021 Gravitation session of the 55th Rencontres de Moriond
null
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The theory of General Relativity has successfully passed a large number of observational tests. The theory has been extensively tested in the weak-field regime with experiments in the Solar System and observations of binary pulsars. The past five years have seen significant advancements in the study of the strong-field regime, which can now be tested with gravitational waves, X-ray data, and mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations. Here I summarize the state-of-the-art of the tests of General Relativity with black hole X-ray data, discussing its recent progress and future developments.
[ { "created": "Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:28:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-03-23
[ [ "Bambi", "Cosimo", "" ] ]
The theory of General Relativity has successfully passed a large number of observational tests. The theory has been extensively tested in the weak-field regime with experiments in the Solar System and observations of binary pulsars. The past five years have seen significant advancements in the study of the strong-field regime, which can now be tested with gravitational waves, X-ray data, and mm Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations. Here I summarize the state-of-the-art of the tests of General Relativity with black hole X-ray data, discussing its recent progress and future developments.
2301.02813
Houri Ziaeepour
Houri Ziaeepour
\boldmath $SU(\infty)$ Quantum Gravity: Emergence of Gravity in an Infinitely Divisible Quantum Universe
v4: more concise; QSL section extended
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
$SU(\infty)$-QGR is a foundationally quantum approach to gravity. It assumes that the Hilbert space of the Universe as a whole represents the symmetry group $SU(\infty)$, and demonstrates this symmetry for Hilbert spaces of infinite number of subsystems that randomly emerge and represent arbitrary finite rank internal symmetries. It is shown that their states depend on a dimensionful parameter arising due to the breaking of a global $U(1)$ symmetry, and a relative dynamics can be defined by selection of a subsystem as clock. The action has the form of a Yang-Mills quantum field theory defined on the (3+1)-dimensional parameter space for both $SU(\infty)$ - gravity - and internal symmetries. Therefore, $SU(\infty)$-QGR is renormalizable, but predicts a spin-1 mediator for quantum gravity. Nonetheless, it is proved that when quantum gravity effects are not detectable, dynamics is similar to the Einstein-Hilbert action. The aim of present work is in depth study of the foundation and properties of this model. In particular, we show that the global $SU(\infty)$ symmetry manifests itself through the entanglement of subsystems with the rest of the Universe, and demonstrate irrelevance of geometry of the parameter space for observables. Hence, $SU(\infty)$-QGR deviates from gauge-gravity duality models, because the classical spacetime is an emergent effective geometry with negative signature, reflecting relative variation of quantum states of subsystems and quantum uncertainties. We also briefly discuss $SU(\infty)$-QGR specific models for dark energy.
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2024-07-08
[ [ "Ziaeepour", "Houri", "" ] ]
$SU(\infty)$-QGR is a foundationally quantum approach to gravity. It assumes that the Hilbert space of the Universe as a whole represents the symmetry group $SU(\infty)$, and demonstrates this symmetry for Hilbert spaces of infinite number of subsystems that randomly emerge and represent arbitrary finite rank internal symmetries. It is shown that their states depend on a dimensionful parameter arising due to the breaking of a global $U(1)$ symmetry, and a relative dynamics can be defined by selection of a subsystem as clock. The action has the form of a Yang-Mills quantum field theory defined on the (3+1)-dimensional parameter space for both $SU(\infty)$ - gravity - and internal symmetries. Therefore, $SU(\infty)$-QGR is renormalizable, but predicts a spin-1 mediator for quantum gravity. Nonetheless, it is proved that when quantum gravity effects are not detectable, dynamics is similar to the Einstein-Hilbert action. The aim of present work is in depth study of the foundation and properties of this model. In particular, we show that the global $SU(\infty)$ symmetry manifests itself through the entanglement of subsystems with the rest of the Universe, and demonstrate irrelevance of geometry of the parameter space for observables. Hence, $SU(\infty)$-QGR deviates from gauge-gravity duality models, because the classical spacetime is an emergent effective geometry with negative signature, reflecting relative variation of quantum states of subsystems and quantum uncertainties. We also briefly discuss $SU(\infty)$-QGR specific models for dark energy.
1905.09390
Alexandre Filippov
Alexandre T.Filippov
Constructing and solving cosmologies of early universes with dark energy and matter. I
25 pages, mostly `cosmetic' corrections on pages 1-5, 7, 16-17, 21-22
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The main purpose of this paper is to advance a unified theory of dark matter, dark energy, and inflation first formulated in 2008. Our minimal affine extension of the GR has geodesics coinciding with the pseudo Riemannian ones, up to parameterizations. It predicts a `sterile' massive vecton and depends on two new dimensional constants, which can be measured in the limit of small vecton velocity. In a special gauge, this velocity has an upper limit near which it grows to infinity. The linearized vecton theory is similar to the scalar models of inflation except the fact of internal anisotropy of the vecton. For this reason we study general solutions of scalar analogs of the vecton theory without restricting the curvature parameter and anisotropy by using previously derived exact solutions as functions of the metric. It is shown that the effects of curvature and anisotropy fast decrease in expanding universes. Our approach can be applied to anisotropic universes, which is demonstrated on an exactly solvable strongly anisotropic cosmology. To characterize different cosmological scenarios in detail we introduce three characteristic functions, two of which are small and almost equal during inflation and grow near the exit. Instead of the potential it is possible to use one of the two characteristic functions. This allows to approximately derive flat isotropic universes with `prescribed' scenarios, which is the essence of our constructive cosmology of early universes. The most natural application of our approach is in analytically constructing characteristic functions of inflationary models with natural exits. However, the general construction can be applied to other problems, e.g., to evolution of contracting universes.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 May 2019 18:55:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:20:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-07-02
[ [ "Filippov", "Alexandre T.", "" ] ]
The main purpose of this paper is to advance a unified theory of dark matter, dark energy, and inflation first formulated in 2008. Our minimal affine extension of the GR has geodesics coinciding with the pseudo Riemannian ones, up to parameterizations. It predicts a `sterile' massive vecton and depends on two new dimensional constants, which can be measured in the limit of small vecton velocity. In a special gauge, this velocity has an upper limit near which it grows to infinity. The linearized vecton theory is similar to the scalar models of inflation except the fact of internal anisotropy of the vecton. For this reason we study general solutions of scalar analogs of the vecton theory without restricting the curvature parameter and anisotropy by using previously derived exact solutions as functions of the metric. It is shown that the effects of curvature and anisotropy fast decrease in expanding universes. Our approach can be applied to anisotropic universes, which is demonstrated on an exactly solvable strongly anisotropic cosmology. To characterize different cosmological scenarios in detail we introduce three characteristic functions, two of which are small and almost equal during inflation and grow near the exit. Instead of the potential it is possible to use one of the two characteristic functions. This allows to approximately derive flat isotropic universes with `prescribed' scenarios, which is the essence of our constructive cosmology of early universes. The most natural application of our approach is in analytically constructing characteristic functions of inflationary models with natural exits. However, the general construction can be applied to other problems, e.g., to evolution of contracting universes.
0906.5530
Mariafelicia De Laurentis
Salvatore Capozziello, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Luca Forte, Fabio Garufi and Leopoldo Milano
Relativistic orbits and Gravitational Waves from gravitomagnetic corrections
6 pages, 10 figures; Multifrequency Behaviour of High-Energy Cosmic Sources, Vulcano Workshop 2009
J.Phys.Conf.Ser.228:012052,2010
10.1088/1742-6596/228/1/012052
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Corrections to the relativistic theory of orbits are discussed considering higher order approximations induced by gravitomagnetic effects. Beside the standard periastron effect of General Relativity (GR), a new nutation effect was found due to the ${\displaystyle c^{-3}}$ orbital correction. According to the presence of that new nutation effect we studied the gravitational waveforms emitted through the capture in a gravitational field of a massive black hole (MBH) of a compact object (neutron star (NS) or BH) via the quadrupole approximation. We made a numerical study to obtain the emitted gravitational wave (GW) amplitudes. We conclude that the effects we studied could be of interest for the future space laser interferometric GW antenna LISA.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:08:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Capozziello", "Salvatore", "" ], [ "De Laurentis", "Mariafelicia", "" ], [ "Forte", "Luca", "" ], [ "Garufi", "Fabio", "" ], [ "Milano", "Leopoldo", "" ] ]
Corrections to the relativistic theory of orbits are discussed considering higher order approximations induced by gravitomagnetic effects. Beside the standard periastron effect of General Relativity (GR), a new nutation effect was found due to the ${\displaystyle c^{-3}}$ orbital correction. According to the presence of that new nutation effect we studied the gravitational waveforms emitted through the capture in a gravitational field of a massive black hole (MBH) of a compact object (neutron star (NS) or BH) via the quadrupole approximation. We made a numerical study to obtain the emitted gravitational wave (GW) amplitudes. We conclude that the effects we studied could be of interest for the future space laser interferometric GW antenna LISA.
2201.03584
M Herrero-Valea
Francesco Del Porro, Mario Herrero-Valea, Stefano Liberati, Marc Schneider
Time Orientability and Particle Production from Universal Horizons
6 pages, new title, minor changes. Matches journal version
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.104009
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss particle production in spacetimes endowed with a universal horizon in Einstein--Aether and Horava gravity. We argue that continuity and differentiability of the lapse function require the orientation of the foliation in the interior of the horizon to be reversed with respect to the exterior one. Unless this is allowed, interaction of gravitating scalar fields with the universal horizon leads to unitarity violations in the quantum theory. This property is responsible for particle production by the universal horizon, as we show by computing explicitly its Hawking temperature for all stationary and spherically symmetric spacetimes. We particularize our result to known analytic solutions, including those compatible with observational constraints.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:00:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:03:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-06-28
[ [ "Del Porro", "Francesco", "" ], [ "Herrero-Valea", "Mario", "" ], [ "Liberati", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Schneider", "Marc", "" ] ]
We discuss particle production in spacetimes endowed with a universal horizon in Einstein--Aether and Horava gravity. We argue that continuity and differentiability of the lapse function require the orientation of the foliation in the interior of the horizon to be reversed with respect to the exterior one. Unless this is allowed, interaction of gravitating scalar fields with the universal horizon leads to unitarity violations in the quantum theory. This property is responsible for particle production by the universal horizon, as we show by computing explicitly its Hawking temperature for all stationary and spherically symmetric spacetimes. We particularize our result to known analytic solutions, including those compatible with observational constraints.
1908.01564
Purba Mukherjee
Purba Mukherjee, Soumya Chakrabarti
Exact Solutions and Accelerating Universe in Modified Brans-Dicke Theories
12 pages, 10 figures, to appear in The European Physical Journal C (Particles and Fields)
Eur. Phys. J. C (2019) 79:681
10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7201-x
EPJC-19-06-153.R1
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Exact solutions are studied in the context of modified Brans-Dicke theory. The non-linearity of the modified Brans-Dicke field equations is treated with the Euler-Duarte-Moreira method of integrability of anharmonic oscillator equation. While some solutions show a forever accelerating nature, in some cases there is a signature flip in the evolution of deceleration parameter in recent past. Importance of these latter models are studied in the context of late-time acceleration of the universe. Constraints on the model parameters are obtained from Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis using the Supernova distance modulus data, observational measurements of Hubble parameter, Baryon acoustic oscillation data, and the CMB Shift parameter data.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:33:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-08-19
[ [ "Mukherjee", "Purba", "" ], [ "Chakrabarti", "Soumya", "" ] ]
Exact solutions are studied in the context of modified Brans-Dicke theory. The non-linearity of the modified Brans-Dicke field equations is treated with the Euler-Duarte-Moreira method of integrability of anharmonic oscillator equation. While some solutions show a forever accelerating nature, in some cases there is a signature flip in the evolution of deceleration parameter in recent past. Importance of these latter models are studied in the context of late-time acceleration of the universe. Constraints on the model parameters are obtained from Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis using the Supernova distance modulus data, observational measurements of Hubble parameter, Baryon acoustic oscillation data, and the CMB Shift parameter data.
2311.05689
Nikhil Sarin
Nikhil Sarin, Hiranya V. Peiris, Daniel J. Mortlock, Justin Alsing, Samaya M. Nissanke, Stephen M. Feeney
Measuring the nuclear equation of state with neutron star-black hole mergers
10 pages, 4 Figures. Accepted in PRD
null
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers are sensitive to the nuclear equation of state (EOS). We present a new methodology for EOS inference with non-parametric Gaussian process (GP) priors, enabling direct constraints on the pressure at specific densities and the length-scale of correlations on the EOS. Using realistic simulations of NSBH mergers, incorporating both GW and electromagnetic (EM) selection to ensure sample purity, we find that a GW detector network operating at O5-sensitivities will constrain the radius of a $\unit[1.4]{M_{\odot}}$ NS and the maximum NS mass with $1.6\%$ and $13\%$ precision, respectively. With the same sample, the projected constraint on the length-scale of correlations in the EOS is $\geq~\unit[3.2]{MeV~fm^{-3}}$. These results demonstrate strong potential for insights into the nuclear EOS from NSBH systems, provided they are robustly identified.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Nov 2023 19:01:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Jul 2024 14:37:43 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-07-10
[ [ "Sarin", "Nikhil", "" ], [ "Peiris", "Hiranya V.", "" ], [ "Mortlock", "Daniel J.", "" ], [ "Alsing", "Justin", "" ], [ "Nissanke", "Samaya M.", "" ], [ "Feeney", "Stephen M.", "" ] ]
Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers are sensitive to the nuclear equation of state (EOS). We present a new methodology for EOS inference with non-parametric Gaussian process (GP) priors, enabling direct constraints on the pressure at specific densities and the length-scale of correlations on the EOS. Using realistic simulations of NSBH mergers, incorporating both GW and electromagnetic (EM) selection to ensure sample purity, we find that a GW detector network operating at O5-sensitivities will constrain the radius of a $\unit[1.4]{M_{\odot}}$ NS and the maximum NS mass with $1.6\%$ and $13\%$ precision, respectively. With the same sample, the projected constraint on the length-scale of correlations in the EOS is $\geq~\unit[3.2]{MeV~fm^{-3}}$. These results demonstrate strong potential for insights into the nuclear EOS from NSBH systems, provided they are robustly identified.
gr-qc/0202008
Christodoulakis Theodosios
T. Christodoulakis and G.O. Papadopoulos
Time-Dependent Automorphism Inducing Diffeomorphisms, Open Algebras and the Generality of the Kantowski-Sachs Vacuum Geometry
10 pages, no figures, LaTeX2e
Class.Quant.Grav.19:4855-4862,2002
10.1088/0264-9381/19/19/305
null
gr-qc math-ph math.DG math.MP
null
Following the spirit of a previous work of ours, we investigate the group of those General Coordinate Transformations (GCTs) which preserve manifest spatial homogeneity. In contrast to the case of Bianchi Type Models we, here, permit an isometry group of motions $G_{4}=SO(3)\otimes T_{r}$, where $T_{r}$ is the translations group, along the radial direction, while SO(3) acts multiply transitively on each hypersurface of simultaneity $\Sigma_{t}$. The basis 1-forms, can not be invariant under the action of the entire isometry group and hence produce an Open Lie Algebra. In order for these GCTs to exist and have a non trivial, well defined action, certain integrability conditions have to be satisfied; their solutions, exhibiting the maximum expected ``gauge'' freedom, can be used to simplify the generic, spatially homogeneous, line element. In this way an alternative proof of the generality of the Kantowski-Sachs (KS) vacuum is given, while its most general, manifestly homogeneous, form is explicitly presented.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:15:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:50:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-09
[ [ "Christodoulakis", "T.", "" ], [ "Papadopoulos", "G. O.", "" ] ]
Following the spirit of a previous work of ours, we investigate the group of those General Coordinate Transformations (GCTs) which preserve manifest spatial homogeneity. In contrast to the case of Bianchi Type Models we, here, permit an isometry group of motions $G_{4}=SO(3)\otimes T_{r}$, where $T_{r}$ is the translations group, along the radial direction, while SO(3) acts multiply transitively on each hypersurface of simultaneity $\Sigma_{t}$. The basis 1-forms, can not be invariant under the action of the entire isometry group and hence produce an Open Lie Algebra. In order for these GCTs to exist and have a non trivial, well defined action, certain integrability conditions have to be satisfied; their solutions, exhibiting the maximum expected ``gauge'' freedom, can be used to simplify the generic, spatially homogeneous, line element. In this way an alternative proof of the generality of the Kantowski-Sachs (KS) vacuum is given, while its most general, manifestly homogeneous, form is explicitly presented.
1301.3111
Cecilia Chirenti
Cecilia Chirenti, Jozef Skakala and Shin'ichirou Yoshida
Slowly rotating neutron stars with small differential rotation: equilibrium models and oscillations in the Cowling approximation
v3: 1 figure added, minor typos corrected, 12 pages, 12 figures, final version to appear in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 87, 044043 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.044043
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Newly born neutron stars can present differential rotation, even if later it should be suppressed by viscosity or a sufficiently strong magnetic field. And in this early stage of its life, a neutron star is expected to have a strong emission of gravitational waves, which could be influenced by the differential rotation. We present here a new formalism for modelling differentially rotating neutron stars: working on the slow rotation approximation and assuming a small degree of differential rotation, we show that it is possible to separate variables in the Einstein field equations. The dragging of inertial frames is determined by solving three decoupled ODEs. After we establish our equilibrium model, we explore the influence of the differential rotation on the f and r-modes of oscillation of the neutron star in the Cowling approximation, and we also analyze an effect of the differential rotation on the emission of gravitational radiation from the f-modes. We see that the gravitational radiation from the f-modes is slightly suppressed by introducing differential rotation to the equilibrium stars.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:20:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:51:50 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:49:45 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2013-02-22
[ [ "Chirenti", "Cecilia", "" ], [ "Skakala", "Jozef", "" ], [ "Yoshida", "Shin'ichirou", "" ] ]
Newly born neutron stars can present differential rotation, even if later it should be suppressed by viscosity or a sufficiently strong magnetic field. And in this early stage of its life, a neutron star is expected to have a strong emission of gravitational waves, which could be influenced by the differential rotation. We present here a new formalism for modelling differentially rotating neutron stars: working on the slow rotation approximation and assuming a small degree of differential rotation, we show that it is possible to separate variables in the Einstein field equations. The dragging of inertial frames is determined by solving three decoupled ODEs. After we establish our equilibrium model, we explore the influence of the differential rotation on the f and r-modes of oscillation of the neutron star in the Cowling approximation, and we also analyze an effect of the differential rotation on the emission of gravitational radiation from the f-modes. We see that the gravitational radiation from the f-modes is slightly suppressed by introducing differential rotation to the equilibrium stars.
0905.4097
Tonatiuh Matos
Tonatiuh Matos, Galaxia Miranda, Ruben Sanchez-Sanchez and Petra Wiederhold
Class of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion Space-Times
12 pages, 2 figures 1 appendix
Phys.Rev.D79:124016,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.124016
CIEA/09-gr14
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We use the harmonic maps ansatz to find exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion (EMDA) equations. The solutions are harmonic maps invariant to the symplectic real group in four dimensions $Sp(4,\Rreal)\sim O(5)$. We find solutions of the EMDA field equations for the one and two dimensional subspaces of the symplectic group. Specially, for illustration of the method, we find space-times that generalise the Schwarzschild solution with dilaton, axion and electromagnetic fields.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 May 2009 00:20:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-04-30
[ [ "Matos", "Tonatiuh", "" ], [ "Miranda", "Galaxia", "" ], [ "Sanchez-Sanchez", "Ruben", "" ], [ "Wiederhold", "Petra", "" ] ]
We use the harmonic maps ansatz to find exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion (EMDA) equations. The solutions are harmonic maps invariant to the symplectic real group in four dimensions $Sp(4,\Rreal)\sim O(5)$. We find solutions of the EMDA field equations for the one and two dimensional subspaces of the symplectic group. Specially, for illustration of the method, we find space-times that generalise the Schwarzschild solution with dilaton, axion and electromagnetic fields.
0811.2714
Sergio Zerbini
Guido Cognola and Sergio Zerbini
Generalized modified gravity models: the stability issue
10 pages, contribution to the anniversary volume "The Problems of Modern Cosmology", on the occasion of the 50th birthday of Prof. S. D. Odintsov. Editor: Prof. P. M. Lavrov, Tomsk State Pedagogical University
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A brief introduction on the issue of stability in generalized modified gravity is presented and the dynamical system methods are used in the investigation of the stability of spatially flat homogeneous cosmologies within a large class of generalized modified gravity models in the presence of a relativistic matter-radiation fluid.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:04:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-18
[ [ "Cognola", "Guido", "" ], [ "Zerbini", "Sergio", "" ] ]
A brief introduction on the issue of stability in generalized modified gravity is presented and the dynamical system methods are used in the investigation of the stability of spatially flat homogeneous cosmologies within a large class of generalized modified gravity models in the presence of a relativistic matter-radiation fluid.
0709.4257
Alexis Larranaga
Alexis Larranaga
Thermodynamical Analogy Between BTZ Black Holes and Effective String Theory
6 pages. References updated
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
In this paper we study the first law of thermodynamics for the (2+1) dimensional BTZ rotating black hole considering a pair of thermodinamical systems constructed with the two horizons of this solution. We show that these two systems are similar to the right and left movers of string theory and that the temperature associated with the black hole is the harmonic mean of the temperatures associated with these two systems.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:26:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:17:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-10-09
[ [ "Larranaga", "Alexis", "" ] ]
In this paper we study the first law of thermodynamics for the (2+1) dimensional BTZ rotating black hole considering a pair of thermodinamical systems constructed with the two horizons of this solution. We show that these two systems are similar to the right and left movers of string theory and that the temperature associated with the black hole is the harmonic mean of the temperatures associated with these two systems.
1606.05981
Parthapratim Pradhan
Parthapratim Pradhan
Area products for ${\cal H}^{\pm}$ in AdS space
20 pages, 6 figures
Galaxies 2017, 5(1), 10
10.3390/galaxies5010010
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive the thermodynamic products particularly area (or entropy) products of ${\cal H}^{\pm}$ for certain class of black holes in AdS space. We show by explicit and exact calculations that more complicated function of event horizon area and Cauchy horizon area is indeed mass-independent. This mass-independent quantities indicate that they \emph{could turn out to be an "universal" quantity} provided that they depends only on the quantized angular momentum, quantized charges, and cosmological constant respectively. Furthermore, these area (or entropy) product relations for several class of black holes in AdS space gives us strong indication to understanding the nature of non-extremal black hole entropy (both inner and outer) at the microscopic level. Moreover, we compute the Penrose's famous \emph{Cosmic Censorship Inequality} (which requires Cosmic-Censorship hypothesis) for these class of black holes in AdS space . Local thermodynamic stability has been discussed for these black holes and under certain condition certain black holes displayed second order phase transition.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Jun 2016 06:09:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:52:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-02-07
[ [ "Pradhan", "Parthapratim", "" ] ]
We derive the thermodynamic products particularly area (or entropy) products of ${\cal H}^{\pm}$ for certain class of black holes in AdS space. We show by explicit and exact calculations that more complicated function of event horizon area and Cauchy horizon area is indeed mass-independent. This mass-independent quantities indicate that they \emph{could turn out to be an "universal" quantity} provided that they depends only on the quantized angular momentum, quantized charges, and cosmological constant respectively. Furthermore, these area (or entropy) product relations for several class of black holes in AdS space gives us strong indication to understanding the nature of non-extremal black hole entropy (both inner and outer) at the microscopic level. Moreover, we compute the Penrose's famous \emph{Cosmic Censorship Inequality} (which requires Cosmic-Censorship hypothesis) for these class of black holes in AdS space . Local thermodynamic stability has been discussed for these black holes and under certain condition certain black holes displayed second order phase transition.
2304.12359
Sapam Gayatri Devi
Sapam Gayatri Devi, I. Ablu Meitei, T. Ibungochouba Singh, Aheibam Keshwarjit Singh and K. Yugindro Singh
Hawking radiation of rotating BTZ Black hole based on modified dispersion relation and Rarita-Schwinger equation
15 pages, 2 figures and submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics A bearing revised manuscript number IJMPA-D-23-00039R1
null
10.1142/S0217751X23500689
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, tunneling of fermions from rotating BTZ black hole is investigated using modified dispersion relation (MDR) and Rarita-Schwinger equation. The effect of modified dispersion relation (MDR) on the tunneling of fermions rises the Hawking temperature of rotating BTZ black hole. It is observed that the modified Hawking temperature of the black hole depends not only on the radial parameters of the black hole but also on the angular parameters of the black hole and the coupling constant \sigma . Further, the entropy and the heat capacity of the black hole are also studied.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:00:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-08-09
[ [ "Devi", "Sapam Gayatri", "" ], [ "Meitei", "I. Ablu", "" ], [ "Singh", "T. Ibungochouba", "" ], [ "Singh", "Aheibam Keshwarjit", "" ], [ "Singh", "K. Yugindro", "" ] ]
In this paper, tunneling of fermions from rotating BTZ black hole is investigated using modified dispersion relation (MDR) and Rarita-Schwinger equation. The effect of modified dispersion relation (MDR) on the tunneling of fermions rises the Hawking temperature of rotating BTZ black hole. It is observed that the modified Hawking temperature of the black hole depends not only on the radial parameters of the black hole but also on the angular parameters of the black hole and the coupling constant \sigma . Further, the entropy and the heat capacity of the black hole are also studied.
gr-qc/0407076
Lawrence P. Horwitz
Lawrence P. Horwitz and Ori Oron
Classical Gravity as an Eikonal Approximation to a Manifestly Lorentz Covariant Quantum Theory with Brownian Interpretation
46 pages, PLain TeX. To be published in "Progress in General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Research". Hauppage (2004)
null
null
YAUP 2775-04
gr-qc
null
We discuss in this Chapter a series of theoretical developments which motivate the introduction of a quantum evolution equation for which the eikonal approximation results in the geodesics of a four dimensional manifold. This geodesic motion can be put into correspondence with general relativity. One obtains in this way a quantum theory on a flat spacetime, obeying the rules of the standard quantum theory in Lorentz covariant form, with a spacetime dependent Lorentz tensor $g_{\mu\nu}$, somewhat analogous to a gauge field, coupling to the kinetic terms. Since the geodesics predicted by the eikonal approximation, with appropriate choice of $g_{\mu\nu}$, can be those of general relativity, this theory provides a quantum theory which could be underlying to classical gravitation, and coincides with it in this classical ray approximation. In order to understand the possible origin of the structure of this equation, we appeal to the approach of Nelson in constructing a Schroedinger equation from the properties of Brownian motion. Extending the notion of Browninan motion to spacetime in a covariant way, we show that such an equation follows from correlations between spacetime dimensions in the stochastic process.
[ { "created": "Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:58:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Horwitz", "Lawrence P.", "" ], [ "Oron", "Ori", "" ] ]
We discuss in this Chapter a series of theoretical developments which motivate the introduction of a quantum evolution equation for which the eikonal approximation results in the geodesics of a four dimensional manifold. This geodesic motion can be put into correspondence with general relativity. One obtains in this way a quantum theory on a flat spacetime, obeying the rules of the standard quantum theory in Lorentz covariant form, with a spacetime dependent Lorentz tensor $g_{\mu\nu}$, somewhat analogous to a gauge field, coupling to the kinetic terms. Since the geodesics predicted by the eikonal approximation, with appropriate choice of $g_{\mu\nu}$, can be those of general relativity, this theory provides a quantum theory which could be underlying to classical gravitation, and coincides with it in this classical ray approximation. In order to understand the possible origin of the structure of this equation, we appeal to the approach of Nelson in constructing a Schroedinger equation from the properties of Brownian motion. Extending the notion of Browninan motion to spacetime in a covariant way, we show that such an equation follows from correlations between spacetime dimensions in the stochastic process.
2406.18604
Jitendra Kumar Dr.
Sourav Chaudharya, Sunil Kumar Maurya, Jitendra Kumara, Ghulam Mustafa
Most general isotropic charged fluid solution for Buchdahl model in $\mathscr{F}(Q)$ gravity
11 figures and 5 Tables
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this work, we investigated a most general isotropic charged fluid solution for the Buchdahl model via a two-step method in $\mathscr{F}(Q)$-gravity framework for the first time. In this context, a linear function of the form $\mathscr{F}(Q)=\zeta_1 Q+\zeta_2$ and a particular transformation is used to solve the Einstein-Maxwell Equations (EMEs) employing the Buchdahl ansatz: $ e^{\Upsilon(r)}=\frac{\mu(1+\lambda r^2)}{\mu+\lambda r^2}$, where $\zeta_1$, $\zeta_2$, $\lambda$ and $\mu$ are constant parameters. The Schwarzschild de Sitter~(AdS) exterior solution is joined to the interior solution at the boundary to determine the constant parameters. It should be emphasized that, for a given transformation, the Buchdahl ansatz only offers a mathematically feasible solution in the context of electric charge, where pressure and density are maximum at the center and decrease monotonically towards the boundary when $0<\mu<1$. We taken into account the compact star EX01785-248 with $M=(1.3\pm 0.2)M_{\odot}$; Radius $=12.02^{+0.55}_{-0.55}$~km for graphical analysis. The physical acceptability of the model in the context of $\mathscr{F}(Q)$ has been evaluated by looking at the necessary physical properties, including energy conditions, causality, hydrostatic equilibrium, pressure-density ratio, etc. Additionally, we predicted the maximum mass limit of different compact objects for various parameter values along with the mass-radius relation. The maximum masses range (1.927 - 2.321)~$M_\odot$ are obtained for our solution. It can be observed that when the coupling parameter $\zeta_1$ for $\mathscr{F}(Q)$ gravity is smaller, then our solution yields massive stars. The present investigation provides novel insights and realistic implications regarding the formation of compact astrophysical objects.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:33:46 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-06-28
[ [ "Chaudharya", "Sourav", "" ], [ "Maurya", "Sunil Kumar", "" ], [ "Kumara", "Jitendra", "" ], [ "Mustafa", "Ghulam", "" ] ]
In this work, we investigated a most general isotropic charged fluid solution for the Buchdahl model via a two-step method in $\mathscr{F}(Q)$-gravity framework for the first time. In this context, a linear function of the form $\mathscr{F}(Q)=\zeta_1 Q+\zeta_2$ and a particular transformation is used to solve the Einstein-Maxwell Equations (EMEs) employing the Buchdahl ansatz: $ e^{\Upsilon(r)}=\frac{\mu(1+\lambda r^2)}{\mu+\lambda r^2}$, where $\zeta_1$, $\zeta_2$, $\lambda$ and $\mu$ are constant parameters. The Schwarzschild de Sitter~(AdS) exterior solution is joined to the interior solution at the boundary to determine the constant parameters. It should be emphasized that, for a given transformation, the Buchdahl ansatz only offers a mathematically feasible solution in the context of electric charge, where pressure and density are maximum at the center and decrease monotonically towards the boundary when $0<\mu<1$. We taken into account the compact star EX01785-248 with $M=(1.3\pm 0.2)M_{\odot}$; Radius $=12.02^{+0.55}_{-0.55}$~km for graphical analysis. The physical acceptability of the model in the context of $\mathscr{F}(Q)$ has been evaluated by looking at the necessary physical properties, including energy conditions, causality, hydrostatic equilibrium, pressure-density ratio, etc. Additionally, we predicted the maximum mass limit of different compact objects for various parameter values along with the mass-radius relation. The maximum masses range (1.927 - 2.321)~$M_\odot$ are obtained for our solution. It can be observed that when the coupling parameter $\zeta_1$ for $\mathscr{F}(Q)$ gravity is smaller, then our solution yields massive stars. The present investigation provides novel insights and realistic implications regarding the formation of compact astrophysical objects.
1002.1737
Luc Nguyen
Piotr T. Chru\'sciel and Luc Nguyen
A uniqueness theorem for degenerate Kerr-Newman black holes
null
Ann. Henri Poincar\'e 11 (2010), no. 4, 585-609
10.1007/s00023-010-0038-3
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that the domains of dependence of stationary, $I^+$-regular, analytic, electrovacuum space-times with a connected, non-empty, rotating, degenerate event horizon arise from Kerr-Newman space-times.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:19:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-10-14
[ [ "Chruściel", "Piotr T.", "" ], [ "Nguyen", "Luc", "" ] ]
We show that the domains of dependence of stationary, $I^+$-regular, analytic, electrovacuum space-times with a connected, non-empty, rotating, degenerate event horizon arise from Kerr-Newman space-times.
1212.0629
Sumati Surya
Surbhi Khetrapal and Sumati Surya
Boundary Term Contribution to the Volume of a Small Causal Diamond
18 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1088/0264-9381/30/6/065005
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In his calculation of the spacetime volume of a small Alexandrov interval in 4 dimensions Myrheim introduced a term which he referred to as a surface integral [1]. The evaluation of this term has remained opaque and led subsequent authors to evaluate the volume using other techniques [2]. It is the purpose of this work to demystify this integral. We point out that it arises from the difference in the flat spacetime volumes of the curved and flat spacetime intervals. An explicit evaluation using first order degenerate perturbation theory shows that it adds a dimension independent factor to the flat spacetime volume as the lowest order correction. Our analysis admits a simple extension to a more general class of integrals over the same domain. Using a combination of techniques we also find that the next order correction to the volume vanishes.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Dec 2012 07:23:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-12
[ [ "Khetrapal", "Surbhi", "" ], [ "Surya", "Sumati", "" ] ]
In his calculation of the spacetime volume of a small Alexandrov interval in 4 dimensions Myrheim introduced a term which he referred to as a surface integral [1]. The evaluation of this term has remained opaque and led subsequent authors to evaluate the volume using other techniques [2]. It is the purpose of this work to demystify this integral. We point out that it arises from the difference in the flat spacetime volumes of the curved and flat spacetime intervals. An explicit evaluation using first order degenerate perturbation theory shows that it adds a dimension independent factor to the flat spacetime volume as the lowest order correction. Our analysis admits a simple extension to a more general class of integrals over the same domain. Using a combination of techniques we also find that the next order correction to the volume vanishes.
0911.0756
Vladimir S. Manko
I. Cabrera-Munguia, V.S. Manko, E. Ruiz
A combined Majumdar-Papapetrou-Bonnor field as extreme limit of the double-Reissner-Nordstrom solution
10 pages, 3 figures, title changed, the result extended, matching the published version
Gen. Rel. Grav. 43:1593-1606,2011
10.1007/s10714-011-1142-5
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The general extreme limit of the double-Reissner-Nordstrom solution is worked out in explicit analytical form involving prolate spheroidal coordinates. We name it the combined Majumdar-Papapetrou-Bonnor field to underline the fact that it contains as particular cases the two-body specialization of the well-known Majumdar-Papapetrou solution and Bonnor's three-parameter electrostatic field. To the latter we give a precise physical interpretation as describing a pair of non-rotating extremal black holes with unequal masses and unequal opposite charges kept apart by a strut, the absolute values of charges exceeding the respective (positive) values of masses.
[ { "created": "Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:33:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 13 May 2011 23:31:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-07-26
[ [ "Cabrera-Munguia", "I.", "" ], [ "Manko", "V. S.", "" ], [ "Ruiz", "E.", "" ] ]
The general extreme limit of the double-Reissner-Nordstrom solution is worked out in explicit analytical form involving prolate spheroidal coordinates. We name it the combined Majumdar-Papapetrou-Bonnor field to underline the fact that it contains as particular cases the two-body specialization of the well-known Majumdar-Papapetrou solution and Bonnor's three-parameter electrostatic field. To the latter we give a precise physical interpretation as describing a pair of non-rotating extremal black holes with unequal masses and unequal opposite charges kept apart by a strut, the absolute values of charges exceeding the respective (positive) values of masses.
2406.06091
Andrea Pierfrancesco Sanna
Mariano Cadoni, Mirko Pitzalis, Davi C. Rodrigues and Andrea P. Sanna
Cosmological coupling of local gravitational systems
27 pages, 7 figures. Some typos corrected, one reference added
null
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph.GA
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We investigate the cosmological coupling of spherical, local astrophysical systems. We derive a general formula quantifying the cosmological coupling of the Misner-Sharp mass of these objects. We show that, in the weak-field limit, the cosmological coupling is only allowed if there are pressure anisotropies. We also apply our results to galaxies, modelling them with the Navarro-Frenk-White and Einasto profiles. We show that the galactic mass can be coupled to the cosmological dynamics and examine its dependence on the scale factor of the universe.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:20:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:18:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-06-18
[ [ "Cadoni", "Mariano", "" ], [ "Pitzalis", "Mirko", "" ], [ "Rodrigues", "Davi C.", "" ], [ "Sanna", "Andrea P.", "" ] ]
We investigate the cosmological coupling of spherical, local astrophysical systems. We derive a general formula quantifying the cosmological coupling of the Misner-Sharp mass of these objects. We show that, in the weak-field limit, the cosmological coupling is only allowed if there are pressure anisotropies. We also apply our results to galaxies, modelling them with the Navarro-Frenk-White and Einasto profiles. We show that the galactic mass can be coupled to the cosmological dynamics and examine its dependence on the scale factor of the universe.
gr-qc/0302113
Kenji Sakamoto
Kenji Sakamoto, Kiyoshi Shiraishi (Yamaguchi University)
Quantum Scattering in Two Black Hole Moduli Space
15 pages, 19 figures, RevTeX 3.0
Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 025019
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.025019
null
gr-qc hep-th
null
We discuss the quantum scattering process in the moduli space consisting of two maximally charged dilaton black holes. The black hole moduli space geometry has different structures for arbitrary dimensions and various values of dilaton coupling. We study the quantum effects of the different moduli space geometries with scattering process. Then, it is found that there is a resonance state on certain moduli spaces.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:25:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 1 May 2003 08:06:54 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Sakamoto", "Kenji", "", "Yamaguchi University" ], [ "Shiraishi", "Kiyoshi", "", "Yamaguchi University" ] ]
We discuss the quantum scattering process in the moduli space consisting of two maximally charged dilaton black holes. The black hole moduli space geometry has different structures for arbitrary dimensions and various values of dilaton coupling. We study the quantum effects of the different moduli space geometries with scattering process. Then, it is found that there is a resonance state on certain moduli spaces.
2003.07436
Luis Herrera
L. Herrera
Landauer Principle and General Relativity
Published in the special issue of Entropy: The Landauer Principle: Meaning, Physical Roots and Applications
Entropy, 22, 340, (2020)
10.3390/e22030340
null
gr-qc physics.class-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We endeavour to illustrate the physical relevance of the Landauer principle applying it to different important issues concerning the theory of gravitation. We shall first analyze, in the context of general relativity, the consequences derived from the fact, implied by Landauer principle, that information has mass. Next, we shall analyze the role played by the Landauer principle in order to understand why different congruences of observers provide very different physical descriptions of the same space--time. Finally, we shall apply the Landauer principle to the problem of gravitational radiation. We shall see that the fact that gravitational radiation is an irreversible process entailing dissipation, is a straightforward consequence of the Landauer principle and of the fact that gravitational radiation conveys information. An expression measuring the part of radiated energy that corresponds to the radiated information and an expression defining the total number of bits erased in that process, shall be obtained, as well as an explicit expression linking the latter to the Bondi news function.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:41:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-04-22
[ [ "Herrera", "L.", "" ] ]
We endeavour to illustrate the physical relevance of the Landauer principle applying it to different important issues concerning the theory of gravitation. We shall first analyze, in the context of general relativity, the consequences derived from the fact, implied by Landauer principle, that information has mass. Next, we shall analyze the role played by the Landauer principle in order to understand why different congruences of observers provide very different physical descriptions of the same space--time. Finally, we shall apply the Landauer principle to the problem of gravitational radiation. We shall see that the fact that gravitational radiation is an irreversible process entailing dissipation, is a straightforward consequence of the Landauer principle and of the fact that gravitational radiation conveys information. An expression measuring the part of radiated energy that corresponds to the radiated information and an expression defining the total number of bits erased in that process, shall be obtained, as well as an explicit expression linking the latter to the Bondi news function.
gr-qc/9901005
Garcia
L.C.Garcia de Andrade
On non-Riemannian Superconductors and torsion loops
Latex file,6 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
The geometrization of electrodynamics is obtained by performing the complex extension of the covariant derivative operator to include the Cartan torsion vector and applying this derivative to the Ginzburg-Landau equation of superfluids and Superconductors.It is shown that the introduction of torsion makes a shift in the symmetry breaking vacuum.Torsion loops are computed from geometrical phases outside the superconductor.Inside the superconductor the torsion vanishes which represents the Meissner effect for torsion geometry. Torsion in general equals the London supercurrent.It is possible to place a limit on the size of superconductor needed to give an estimate to torsion.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:38:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "de Andrade", "L. C. Garcia", "" ] ]
The geometrization of electrodynamics is obtained by performing the complex extension of the covariant derivative operator to include the Cartan torsion vector and applying this derivative to the Ginzburg-Landau equation of superfluids and Superconductors.It is shown that the introduction of torsion makes a shift in the symmetry breaking vacuum.Torsion loops are computed from geometrical phases outside the superconductor.Inside the superconductor the torsion vanishes which represents the Meissner effect for torsion geometry. Torsion in general equals the London supercurrent.It is possible to place a limit on the size of superconductor needed to give an estimate to torsion.
1409.2688
Cornelius Rampf
Cornelius Rampf and Alexander Wiegand
Relativistic Lagrangian displacement field and tensor perturbations
19 pages, two figures, improved discussion, matches published version
Phys. Rev. D 90, 123503 (2014)
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.123503
AEI-2014-043
gr-qc astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the purely spatial Lagrangian coordinate transformation from the Lagrangian to the basic Eulerian frame. We demonstrate three techniques for extracting the relativistic displacement field from a given solution in the Lagrangian frame. These techniques are (a) from defining a local set of Eulerian coordinates embedded into the Lagrangian frame; (b) from performing a specific gauge transformation; and (c) from a fully non-perturbative approach based on the ADM split. The latter approach shows that this decomposition is not tied to a specific perturbative formulation for the solution of the Einstein equations. Rather, it can be defined at the level of the non-perturbative coordinate change from the Lagrangian to the Eulerian description. Studying such different techniques is useful because it allows us to compare and develop further the various approximation techniques available in the Lagrangian formulation. We find that one has to solve the gravitational wave equation in the relativistic analysis, otherwise the corresponding Newtonian limit will necessarily contain spurious non-propagating tensor artefacts at second order in the Eulerian frame. We also derive the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor in the Lagrangian frame, and find that it is not only excited by gravitational waves but also by tensor perturbations which are induced through the non-linear frame-dragging. We apply our findings to calculate for the first time the relativistic displacement field, up to second order, for a $\Lambda$CDM Universe in the presence of a local primordial non-Gaussian component. Finally, we also comment on recent claims about whether mass conservation in the Lagrangian frame is violated.
[ { "created": "Fri, 5 Sep 2014 20:00:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 14 Dec 2014 09:43:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-12-16
[ [ "Rampf", "Cornelius", "" ], [ "Wiegand", "Alexander", "" ] ]
We investigate the purely spatial Lagrangian coordinate transformation from the Lagrangian to the basic Eulerian frame. We demonstrate three techniques for extracting the relativistic displacement field from a given solution in the Lagrangian frame. These techniques are (a) from defining a local set of Eulerian coordinates embedded into the Lagrangian frame; (b) from performing a specific gauge transformation; and (c) from a fully non-perturbative approach based on the ADM split. The latter approach shows that this decomposition is not tied to a specific perturbative formulation for the solution of the Einstein equations. Rather, it can be defined at the level of the non-perturbative coordinate change from the Lagrangian to the Eulerian description. Studying such different techniques is useful because it allows us to compare and develop further the various approximation techniques available in the Lagrangian formulation. We find that one has to solve the gravitational wave equation in the relativistic analysis, otherwise the corresponding Newtonian limit will necessarily contain spurious non-propagating tensor artefacts at second order in the Eulerian frame. We also derive the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor in the Lagrangian frame, and find that it is not only excited by gravitational waves but also by tensor perturbations which are induced through the non-linear frame-dragging. We apply our findings to calculate for the first time the relativistic displacement field, up to second order, for a $\Lambda$CDM Universe in the presence of a local primordial non-Gaussian component. Finally, we also comment on recent claims about whether mass conservation in the Lagrangian frame is violated.
2203.03049
Bence Racsk\'o
Bence Racsk\'o
Variational formalism for generic shells in general relativity
null
Class. Quantum Grav. 39 015004 (2022)
10.1088/1361-6382/ac38d2
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We investigate the variational principle for the gravitational field in the presence of thin shells of completely unconstrained signature (generic shells). Such variational formulations have been given before for shells of timelike and null signatures separately, but so far no unified treatment exists. We identify the shell equation as the natural boundary condition associated with a broken extremal problem along a hypersurface where the metric tensor is allowed to be nondifferentiable. Since the second order nature of the Einstein-Hilbert action makes the boundary value problem associated with the variational formulation ill-defined, regularization schemes need to be introduced. We investigate several such regularization schemes and prove their equivalence. We show that the unified shell equations derived from this variational procedure reproduce past results obtained via distribution theory by Barrabes and Israel for hypersurfaces of fixed causal type and by Mars and Senovilla for generic shells. These results are expected to provide a useful guide to formulating thin shell equations and junction conditions along generic hypersurfaces in modified theories of gravity.
[ { "created": "Sun, 6 Mar 2022 20:49:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-03-08
[ [ "Racskó", "Bence", "" ] ]
We investigate the variational principle for the gravitational field in the presence of thin shells of completely unconstrained signature (generic shells). Such variational formulations have been given before for shells of timelike and null signatures separately, but so far no unified treatment exists. We identify the shell equation as the natural boundary condition associated with a broken extremal problem along a hypersurface where the metric tensor is allowed to be nondifferentiable. Since the second order nature of the Einstein-Hilbert action makes the boundary value problem associated with the variational formulation ill-defined, regularization schemes need to be introduced. We investigate several such regularization schemes and prove their equivalence. We show that the unified shell equations derived from this variational procedure reproduce past results obtained via distribution theory by Barrabes and Israel for hypersurfaces of fixed causal type and by Mars and Senovilla for generic shells. These results are expected to provide a useful guide to formulating thin shell equations and junction conditions along generic hypersurfaces in modified theories of gravity.
0809.2022
Patrick Peter
Patrick Peter and Nelson Pinto-Neto
Cosmology without inflation
8 pages, no figure
Phys.Rev.D78:063506,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.063506
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a new cosmological paradigm in which our observed expanding phase is originated from an initially large contracting Universe that subsequently experienced a bounce. This category of models, being geodesically complete, is non-singular and horizon-free, and can be made to prevent any relevant scale to ever have been smaller than the Planck length. In this scenario, one can find new ways to solve the standard cosmological puzzles. One can also obtain scale invariant spectra for both scalar and tensor perturbations: this will be the case, for instance, if the contracting Universe is dust-dominated at the time at which large wavelength perturbations get larger than the curvature scale. We present a particular example based on a dust fluid classically contracting model, where a bounce occurs due to quantum effects, in which these features are explicit.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:29:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-07
[ [ "Peter", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Pinto-Neto", "Nelson", "" ] ]
We propose a new cosmological paradigm in which our observed expanding phase is originated from an initially large contracting Universe that subsequently experienced a bounce. This category of models, being geodesically complete, is non-singular and horizon-free, and can be made to prevent any relevant scale to ever have been smaller than the Planck length. In this scenario, one can find new ways to solve the standard cosmological puzzles. One can also obtain scale invariant spectra for both scalar and tensor perturbations: this will be the case, for instance, if the contracting Universe is dust-dominated at the time at which large wavelength perturbations get larger than the curvature scale. We present a particular example based on a dust fluid classically contracting model, where a bounce occurs due to quantum effects, in which these features are explicit.
0811.4329
David Langlois
David Langlois
Early Universe: inflation and cosmological perturbations
Talk given at the workshop "Geometry, Topology, QFT and Cosmology", Paris (28-30 May 2008); 23 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
After a brief summary of general relativity and cosmology, we present the basic concepts underlying inflation, the currently best motivated models for the early Universe. We describe the simplest inflation models, based on a single scalar field, and discuss how primordial cosmological perturbations are generated. We then review some recent developments concerning multi-field inflation models, in particular multi-field Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:47:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-27
[ [ "Langlois", "David", "" ] ]
After a brief summary of general relativity and cosmology, we present the basic concepts underlying inflation, the currently best motivated models for the early Universe. We describe the simplest inflation models, based on a single scalar field, and discuss how primordial cosmological perturbations are generated. We then review some recent developments concerning multi-field inflation models, in particular multi-field Dirac-Born-Infeld inflation.
0811.4020
Peter Hogan
T. Futamase, P. A. Hogan and Y. Itoh
Equations of Motion in General Relativity of a Small Charged Black Hole
31 pages, Latex file
Phys.Rev.D78:104014,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.104014
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present the details of a model in general relativity of a small charged black hole moving in an external gravitational and electromagnetic field. The importance of our model lies in the fact that we can derive the equations of motion of the black hole from the Einstein-Maxwell vacuum field equations without encountering infinities. The key assumptions which we base our results upon are that (a) the black hole is isolated and (b) near the black hole the wave fronts of the radiation generated by its motion are smoothly deformed spheres. The equations of motion which emerge fit the pattern of the original DeWitt and Brehme equations of motion (after they "renormalise"). Our calculations are carried out in a coordinate system in which the null hypersurface histories of the wave fronts can be specified in a simple way, with the result that we obtain a new explicit form, particular to our model, for the well-known "tail term" in the equations of motion.
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:03:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-12-18
[ [ "Futamase", "T.", "" ], [ "Hogan", "P. A.", "" ], [ "Itoh", "Y.", "" ] ]
We present the details of a model in general relativity of a small charged black hole moving in an external gravitational and electromagnetic field. The importance of our model lies in the fact that we can derive the equations of motion of the black hole from the Einstein-Maxwell vacuum field equations without encountering infinities. The key assumptions which we base our results upon are that (a) the black hole is isolated and (b) near the black hole the wave fronts of the radiation generated by its motion are smoothly deformed spheres. The equations of motion which emerge fit the pattern of the original DeWitt and Brehme equations of motion (after they "renormalise"). Our calculations are carried out in a coordinate system in which the null hypersurface histories of the wave fronts can be specified in a simple way, with the result that we obtain a new explicit form, particular to our model, for the well-known "tail term" in the equations of motion.
1303.4635
Badri Krishnan
Badri Krishnan
Quasi-local black hole horizons
41 pages, 12 Figures. To appear in the Springer Handbook of Spacetime, Springer Verlag (2013)
null
10.1007/978-3-642-41992-8_25
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This article introduces the subject of quasi-local horizons at a level suitable for physics graduate students who have taken a first course on general relativity. It reviews properties of trapped surfaces and trapped regions in some simple examples, general properties of trapped surfaces including their stability properties, the definitions and some applications of dynamical-, trapping-, and isolated-horizons.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:24:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Krishnan", "Badri", "" ] ]
This article introduces the subject of quasi-local horizons at a level suitable for physics graduate students who have taken a first course on general relativity. It reviews properties of trapped surfaces and trapped regions in some simple examples, general properties of trapped surfaces including their stability properties, the definitions and some applications of dynamical-, trapping-, and isolated-horizons.
1211.1373
Christian Corda cordac
Christian Corda
Dark Energy and Dark Matter like intrinsic curvature in extended gravity. Viability through gravitational waves
13 pages, short review commissioned and accepted for publication by New Adv. Phys. To appear in Issue 7(1) 2013 on Dark Energy
New Advances in Physics, Vol. 7, No. 1, January-June 2013, Pp. 67-83
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Towards the goal to quantize gravity, in this short review we discuss an intermediate step which consists in extending the picture of standard General Relativity by considering Extended Theories of Gravity. In this tapestry, the equations to quantize are not the standard Einstein field equations of General Relativity, but the extended Einstein field equations of such Extended Theories. The traditional relation between mass-energy and space-time curvature, which founds standard General Relativity, results modified in this new picture and, at least at the linearized approximation, variations of the space-time curvature generate the mass-energy. Various problems of the Dark Universe, Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Pioneer anomaly, can be, in principle, solved through this approach, while a definitive endorsement for Extended Theories of Gravity could arrive from the realization of a consistent gravitational wave astronomy. We also discuss the quantization of both mass-energy and space-time curvature in the early Universe by using the process of amplification of vacuum fluctuations which is connected with the primordial production of relic gravitational waves. A future detection of such relic gravitational waves will be an ultimate endorsement for the quantum rather than classical feature of the gravitational interaction.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:27:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-03-03
[ [ "Corda", "Christian", "" ] ]
Towards the goal to quantize gravity, in this short review we discuss an intermediate step which consists in extending the picture of standard General Relativity by considering Extended Theories of Gravity. In this tapestry, the equations to quantize are not the standard Einstein field equations of General Relativity, but the extended Einstein field equations of such Extended Theories. The traditional relation between mass-energy and space-time curvature, which founds standard General Relativity, results modified in this new picture and, at least at the linearized approximation, variations of the space-time curvature generate the mass-energy. Various problems of the Dark Universe, Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Pioneer anomaly, can be, in principle, solved through this approach, while a definitive endorsement for Extended Theories of Gravity could arrive from the realization of a consistent gravitational wave astronomy. We also discuss the quantization of both mass-energy and space-time curvature in the early Universe by using the process of amplification of vacuum fluctuations which is connected with the primordial production of relic gravitational waves. A future detection of such relic gravitational waves will be an ultimate endorsement for the quantum rather than classical feature of the gravitational interaction.
2308.12236
Angel Rincon
Gabriel Abell\'an, Angel Rincon and Eduard Sanchez
A Generalized Double Chaplygin Model for Anisotropic Matter: The Newtonian Case
14 pages, 3 figures. Matches the published version (invited contribution to the Journal Universe)
Universe 9 (2023) 1-14
10.3390/universe9080352
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work, we investigate astrophysical systems in a Newtonian regime using anisotropic matter. For this purpose, we considered that both radial and tangential pressures satisfy a generalized Chaplygin-type equation of state. Using this model, we found the Lane--Emden equation for this system and solved it numerically for several sets of parameters. Finally, we explored the mass supported by this physical system and compared it with the Chandrasekhar mass.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:22:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-08-24
[ [ "Abellán", "Gabriel", "" ], [ "Rincon", "Angel", "" ], [ "Sanchez", "Eduard", "" ] ]
In this work, we investigate astrophysical systems in a Newtonian regime using anisotropic matter. For this purpose, we considered that both radial and tangential pressures satisfy a generalized Chaplygin-type equation of state. Using this model, we found the Lane--Emden equation for this system and solved it numerically for several sets of parameters. Finally, we explored the mass supported by this physical system and compared it with the Chandrasekhar mass.
2006.11503
Shao-Wen Wei
Shao-Wen Wei, Yu-Xiao Liu, Robert B. Mann
Novel dual relation and constant in Hawking-Page phase transitions
5 pages and 4 figures
Phys. Rev. D 102, 104011 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.102.104011
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Universal relations and constants have important applications in understanding a physical theory. In this article, we explore this issue for Hawking-Page phase transitions in Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black holes. We find a novel exact dual relation between the minimum temperature of the ($d$+1)-dimensional black hole and the Hawking-Page phase transition temperature in $d$ dimensions, reminiscent of the holographic principle. Furthermore, we find that the normalized Ruppeiner scalar curvature is a universal constant at the Hawking-Page transition point. Since the Ruppeiner curvature can be treated as an indicator of the intensity of the interactions amongst black hole microstructures, we conjecture that this universal constant denotes an interaction threshold, beyond which a virtual black hole becomes a real one. This new dual relation and universal constant are fundamental in understanding Hawking-Page phase transitions, and might have new important applications in the black hole physics in the near future.
[ { "created": "Sat, 20 Jun 2020 06:49:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Nov 2020 06:22:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-11-10
[ [ "Wei", "Shao-Wen", "" ], [ "Liu", "Yu-Xiao", "" ], [ "Mann", "Robert B.", "" ] ]
Universal relations and constants have important applications in understanding a physical theory. In this article, we explore this issue for Hawking-Page phase transitions in Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black holes. We find a novel exact dual relation between the minimum temperature of the ($d$+1)-dimensional black hole and the Hawking-Page phase transition temperature in $d$ dimensions, reminiscent of the holographic principle. Furthermore, we find that the normalized Ruppeiner scalar curvature is a universal constant at the Hawking-Page transition point. Since the Ruppeiner curvature can be treated as an indicator of the intensity of the interactions amongst black hole microstructures, we conjecture that this universal constant denotes an interaction threshold, beyond which a virtual black hole becomes a real one. This new dual relation and universal constant are fundamental in understanding Hawking-Page phase transitions, and might have new important applications in the black hole physics in the near future.
gr-qc/0701128
Jarmo M\"akel\"a Dr.
Jarmo Makela
Quantum-Mechanical Model of Spacetime
46 pages, no figures. References added and a list of references partly re-organized. Typos corrected. Minor changes in section 7
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
We consider a possibility to construct a quantum-mechanical model of spacetime, where Planck size quantum black holes act as the fundamental constituents of space and time. Spacetime is assumed to be a graph, where black holes lie on the vertices. Our model implies that area has a discrete spectrum with equal spacing. At macroscopic length scales our model reproduces Einstein's field equation with a vanishing cosmological constant as a sort of thermodynamical equation of state of spacetime and matter fields. In the low temperature limit, where most black holes are assumed to be in the ground state, our model implies the Unruh and the Hawking effects, whereas in the high temperature limit we find, among other things, that black hole entropy depends logarithmically on the event horizon area, instead of being proportional to the area.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:34:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:12:50 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:59:16 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2007-06-20
[ [ "Makela", "Jarmo", "" ] ]
We consider a possibility to construct a quantum-mechanical model of spacetime, where Planck size quantum black holes act as the fundamental constituents of space and time. Spacetime is assumed to be a graph, where black holes lie on the vertices. Our model implies that area has a discrete spectrum with equal spacing. At macroscopic length scales our model reproduces Einstein's field equation with a vanishing cosmological constant as a sort of thermodynamical equation of state of spacetime and matter fields. In the low temperature limit, where most black holes are assumed to be in the ground state, our model implies the Unruh and the Hawking effects, whereas in the high temperature limit we find, among other things, that black hole entropy depends logarithmically on the event horizon area, instead of being proportional to the area.
1011.3824
Jacek Gruszczak
Jacek Gruszczak
Smooth Beginning of the Universe
some typos corrected, acknowledgements and references added
null
null
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The breaking down of the equivalence principle, when discussed in the context of Sikorski's differential spaces theory, leads to the definition of the so-called differentially singular boundary (d-boundary) and to the concept of differential space with singularity associated with a given space-time differential manifold. This enables us to define the time orientability, the beginning of the cosmological time and the smooth evolution for the flat Friedmanian world model with the initial singularity. The simplest smoothly evolved models are studied. It is shown, that the cosmological matter causing such an evolution can be of three different types. One of them is the fluid with dark energy properties, the second the fluid with attraction properties, and the third a mixture of the other two. Among all investigated smoothly evolved solutions, models qualitatively consistent with the observational data of type Ia supernovae have been found.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:03:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 4 Jul 2011 00:34:09 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:26:14 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2012-01-11
[ [ "Gruszczak", "Jacek", "" ] ]
The breaking down of the equivalence principle, when discussed in the context of Sikorski's differential spaces theory, leads to the definition of the so-called differentially singular boundary (d-boundary) and to the concept of differential space with singularity associated with a given space-time differential manifold. This enables us to define the time orientability, the beginning of the cosmological time and the smooth evolution for the flat Friedmanian world model with the initial singularity. The simplest smoothly evolved models are studied. It is shown, that the cosmological matter causing such an evolution can be of three different types. One of them is the fluid with dark energy properties, the second the fluid with attraction properties, and the third a mixture of the other two. Among all investigated smoothly evolved solutions, models qualitatively consistent with the observational data of type Ia supernovae have been found.
0911.4440
Harvey R. Brown
Harvey R Brown
The behaviour of rods and clocks in general relativity, and the meaning of the metric field
14 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The notion that the metric field in general relativity can be understood as a property of space-time rests on a feature of the theory sometimes called universal coupling -- the claim that rods and clocks "measure" the metric in a way that is independent of their constitution. It is pointed out that this feature is not strictly a consequence of the central dynamical tenets of the theory, and argued that the metric field would better be regarded as a (possibly emergent) field in space-time, rather than as the very fabric of space-time itself.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:26:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-24
[ [ "Brown", "Harvey R", "" ] ]
The notion that the metric field in general relativity can be understood as a property of space-time rests on a feature of the theory sometimes called universal coupling -- the claim that rods and clocks "measure" the metric in a way that is independent of their constitution. It is pointed out that this feature is not strictly a consequence of the central dynamical tenets of the theory, and argued that the metric field would better be regarded as a (possibly emergent) field in space-time, rather than as the very fabric of space-time itself.
0811.0354
Mihalis Dafermos
Mihalis Dafermos and Igor Rodnianski
Lectures on black holes and linear waves
116 pages, 21 figures
Clay Mathematics Proceedings, Vol. 17, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2013, pp. 97-205
null
null
gr-qc math-ph math.AP math.DG math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
These lecture notes, based on a course given at the Zurich Clay Summer School (June 23-July 18, 2008), review our current mathematical understanding of the global behaviour of waves on black hole exterior backgrounds. Interest in this problem stems from its relationship to the non-linear stability of the black hole spacetimes themselves as solutions to the Einstein equations, one of the central open problems of general relativity. After an introductory discussion of the Schwarzschild geometry and the black hole concept, the classical theorem of Kay and Wald on the boundedness of scalar waves on the exterior region of Schwarzschild is reviewed. The original proof is presented, followed by a new more robust proof of a stronger boundedness statement. The problem of decay of scalar waves on Schwarzschild is then addressed, and a theorem proving quantitative decay is stated and its proof sketched. This decay statement is carefully contrasted with the type of statements derived heuristically in the physics literature for the asymptotic tails of individual spherical harmonics. Following this, our recent proof of the boundedness of solutions to the wave equation on axisymmetric stationary backgrounds (including slowly-rotating Kerr and Kerr-Newman) is reviewed and a new decay result for slowly-rotating Kerr spacetimes is stated and proved. This last result was announced at the summer school and appears in print here for the first time. A discussion of the analogue of these problems for spacetimes with a positive cosmological constant follows. Finally, a general framework is given for capturing the red-shift effect for non-extremal black holes. This unifies and extends some of the analysis of the previous sections. The notes end with a collection of open problems.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:09:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-12-03
[ [ "Dafermos", "Mihalis", "" ], [ "Rodnianski", "Igor", "" ] ]
These lecture notes, based on a course given at the Zurich Clay Summer School (June 23-July 18, 2008), review our current mathematical understanding of the global behaviour of waves on black hole exterior backgrounds. Interest in this problem stems from its relationship to the non-linear stability of the black hole spacetimes themselves as solutions to the Einstein equations, one of the central open problems of general relativity. After an introductory discussion of the Schwarzschild geometry and the black hole concept, the classical theorem of Kay and Wald on the boundedness of scalar waves on the exterior region of Schwarzschild is reviewed. The original proof is presented, followed by a new more robust proof of a stronger boundedness statement. The problem of decay of scalar waves on Schwarzschild is then addressed, and a theorem proving quantitative decay is stated and its proof sketched. This decay statement is carefully contrasted with the type of statements derived heuristically in the physics literature for the asymptotic tails of individual spherical harmonics. Following this, our recent proof of the boundedness of solutions to the wave equation on axisymmetric stationary backgrounds (including slowly-rotating Kerr and Kerr-Newman) is reviewed and a new decay result for slowly-rotating Kerr spacetimes is stated and proved. This last result was announced at the summer school and appears in print here for the first time. A discussion of the analogue of these problems for spacetimes with a positive cosmological constant follows. Finally, a general framework is given for capturing the red-shift effect for non-extremal black holes. This unifies and extends some of the analysis of the previous sections. The notes end with a collection of open problems.
gr-qc/0208015
Raul Vera
Raul Vera
Symmetry-preserving matchings
LaTeX, 19 pages
Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 5249-5264
10.1088/0264-9381/19/20/316
null
gr-qc
null
In the literature, the matchings between spacetimes have been most of the times implicitly assumed to preserve some of the symmetries of the problem involved. But no definition for this kind of matching was given until recently. Loosely speaking, the matching hypersurface is restricted to be tangent to the orbits of a desired local group of symmetries admitted at both sides of the matching and thus admitted by the whole matched spacetime. This general definition is shown to lead to conditions on the properties of the preserved groups. First, the algebraic type of the preserved group must be kept at both sides of the matching hypersurface. Secondly, the orthogonal transivity of two-dimensional conformal (in particular isometry) groups is shown to be preserved (in a way made precise below) on the matching hypersurface. This result has in particular direct implications on the studies of axially symmetric isolated bodies in equilibrium in General Relativity, by making up the first condition that determines the suitability of convective interiors to be matched to vacuum exteriors. The definition and most of the results presented in this paper do not depend on the dimension of the manifolds involved nor the signature of the metric, and their applicability to other situations and other higher dimensional theories is manifest.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Aug 2002 15:14:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Vera", "Raul", "" ] ]
In the literature, the matchings between spacetimes have been most of the times implicitly assumed to preserve some of the symmetries of the problem involved. But no definition for this kind of matching was given until recently. Loosely speaking, the matching hypersurface is restricted to be tangent to the orbits of a desired local group of symmetries admitted at both sides of the matching and thus admitted by the whole matched spacetime. This general definition is shown to lead to conditions on the properties of the preserved groups. First, the algebraic type of the preserved group must be kept at both sides of the matching hypersurface. Secondly, the orthogonal transivity of two-dimensional conformal (in particular isometry) groups is shown to be preserved (in a way made precise below) on the matching hypersurface. This result has in particular direct implications on the studies of axially symmetric isolated bodies in equilibrium in General Relativity, by making up the first condition that determines the suitability of convective interiors to be matched to vacuum exteriors. The definition and most of the results presented in this paper do not depend on the dimension of the manifolds involved nor the signature of the metric, and their applicability to other situations and other higher dimensional theories is manifest.
0710.1450
Sergei Kopeikin
S.M. Kopeikin (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA), E. Pavlis (JCET/UMBC - NASA Goddard, USA), D. Pavlis (SGT Inc., USA), V.A. Brumberg (Inst. Appl. Astron., Russia), A. Escapa (Univ. of Alicante, Spain), J. Getino (Univ. of Valladolid, Spain), A. Gusev (Kazan State University, Russia), J. Mueller (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany), W.-T. Ni (Purple Mountain Observatory, China), N. Petrova (Kazan State University, Russia)
Prospects in the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Moon with the advent of sub-centimeter lunar laser ranging
26 pages, submitted to Proc. of ASTROCON-IV conference (Princeton Univ., NJ, 2007)
Adv.SpaceRes.42:1378-1390,2008
10.1016/j.asr.2008.02.014
null
gr-qc
null
Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) measurements are crucial for advanced exploration of the laws of fundamental gravitational physics and geophysics. Current LLR technology allows us to measure distances to the Moon with a precision approaching 1 millimeter. As NASA pursues the vision of taking humans back to the Moon, new, more precise laser ranging applications will be demanded, including continuous tracking from more sites on Earth, placing new CCR arrays on the Moon, and possibly installing other devices such as transponders, etc. Successful achievement of this goal strongly demands further significant improvement of the theoretical model of the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Earth-Moon system. This model should inevitably be based on the theory of general relativity, fully incorporate the relevant geophysical processes, lunar librations, tides, and should rely upon the most recent standards and recommendations of the IAU for data analysis. This paper discusses methods and problems in developing such a mathematical model. The model will take into account all the classical and relativistic effects in the orbital and rotational motion of the Moon and Earth at the sub-centimeter level. The new model will allow us to navigate a spacecraft precisely to a location on the Moon. It will also greatly improve our understanding of the structure of the lunar interior and the nature of the physical interaction at the core-mantle interface layer. The new theory and upcoming millimeter LLR will give us the means to perform one of the most precise fundamental tests of general relativity in the solar system.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Oct 2007 01:11:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Kopeikin", "S. M.", "", "University of Missouri-Columbia, USA" ], [ "Pavlis", "E.", "", "JCET/UMBC - NASA Goddard, USA" ], [ "Pavlis", "D.", "", "SGT Inc., USA" ], [ "Brumberg", "V. A.", "", "Inst. Appl. Astron., Russia" ], [ "Escapa", "A.", "", "Univ. of Alicante, Spain" ], [ "Getino", "J.", "", "Univ. of Valladolid, Spain" ], [ "Gusev", "A.", "", "Kazan State University,\n Russia" ], [ "Mueller", "J.", "", "Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany" ], [ "Ni", "W. -T.", "", "Purple Mountain Observatory, China" ], [ "Petrova", "N.", "", "Kazan State University,\n Russia" ] ]
Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) measurements are crucial for advanced exploration of the laws of fundamental gravitational physics and geophysics. Current LLR technology allows us to measure distances to the Moon with a precision approaching 1 millimeter. As NASA pursues the vision of taking humans back to the Moon, new, more precise laser ranging applications will be demanded, including continuous tracking from more sites on Earth, placing new CCR arrays on the Moon, and possibly installing other devices such as transponders, etc. Successful achievement of this goal strongly demands further significant improvement of the theoretical model of the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Earth-Moon system. This model should inevitably be based on the theory of general relativity, fully incorporate the relevant geophysical processes, lunar librations, tides, and should rely upon the most recent standards and recommendations of the IAU for data analysis. This paper discusses methods and problems in developing such a mathematical model. The model will take into account all the classical and relativistic effects in the orbital and rotational motion of the Moon and Earth at the sub-centimeter level. The new model will allow us to navigate a spacecraft precisely to a location on the Moon. It will also greatly improve our understanding of the structure of the lunar interior and the nature of the physical interaction at the core-mantle interface layer. The new theory and upcoming millimeter LLR will give us the means to perform one of the most precise fundamental tests of general relativity in the solar system.
gr-qc/0703053
Emanuele Berti
Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Jose A. Gonzalez, Ulrich Sperhake, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Bernd Bruegmann
Inspiral, merger and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries: a multipolar analysis
51 pages, 28 figures, 16 tables. Many improvements throughout the text in response to the referee report. The calculation of multipolar components in Appendix A now uses slightly different conventions. Matches version in press in PRD
Phys.Rev.D76:064034,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.064034
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
We study the inspiral, merger and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries by analyzing a catalogue of numerical simulations for seven different values of the mass ratio (from q=M2/M1=1 to q=4). We compare numerical and Post-Newtonian results by projecting the waveforms onto spin-weighted spherical harmonics, characterized by angular indices (l,m). We find that the Post-Newtonian equations predict remarkably well the relation between the wave amplitude and the orbital frequency for each (l,m), and that the convergence of the Post-Newtonian series to the numerical results is non-monotonic. To leading order the total energy emitted in the merger phase scales like eta^2 and the spin of the final black hole scales like eta, where eta=q/(1+q)^2 is the symmetric mass ratio. We study the multipolar distribution of the radiation, finding that odd-l multipoles are suppressed in the equal mass limit. Higher multipoles carry a larger fraction of the total energy as q increases. We introduce and compare three different definitions for the ringdown starting time. Applying linear estimation methods (the so-called Prony methods) to the ringdown phase, we find resolution-dependent time variations in the fitted parameters of the final black hole. By cross-correlating information from different multipoles we show that ringdown fits can be used to obtain precise estimates of the mass and spin of the final black hole, which are in remarkable agreement with energy and angular momentum balance calculations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:25:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:40:35 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Berti", "Emanuele", "" ], [ "Cardoso", "Vitor", "" ], [ "Gonzalez", "Jose A.", "" ], [ "Sperhake", "Ulrich", "" ], [ "Hannam", "Mark", "" ], [ "Husa", "Sascha", "" ], [ "Bruegmann", "Bernd", "" ] ]
We study the inspiral, merger and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries by analyzing a catalogue of numerical simulations for seven different values of the mass ratio (from q=M2/M1=1 to q=4). We compare numerical and Post-Newtonian results by projecting the waveforms onto spin-weighted spherical harmonics, characterized by angular indices (l,m). We find that the Post-Newtonian equations predict remarkably well the relation between the wave amplitude and the orbital frequency for each (l,m), and that the convergence of the Post-Newtonian series to the numerical results is non-monotonic. To leading order the total energy emitted in the merger phase scales like eta^2 and the spin of the final black hole scales like eta, where eta=q/(1+q)^2 is the symmetric mass ratio. We study the multipolar distribution of the radiation, finding that odd-l multipoles are suppressed in the equal mass limit. Higher multipoles carry a larger fraction of the total energy as q increases. We introduce and compare three different definitions for the ringdown starting time. Applying linear estimation methods (the so-called Prony methods) to the ringdown phase, we find resolution-dependent time variations in the fitted parameters of the final black hole. By cross-correlating information from different multipoles we show that ringdown fits can be used to obtain precise estimates of the mass and spin of the final black hole, which are in remarkable agreement with energy and angular momentum balance calculations.
2205.11671
Benito A. Ju\'arez-Aubry
Benito A. Ju\'arez-Aubry, Bernard S. Kay, Tonatiuh Miramontes, Daniel Sudarsky
On the initial value problem for semiclassical gravity without and with quantum state collapses
47 pages. Corrections implemented, notably Def 11 (preliminary surface Hadamard condition) and certain equations on p. 33. Explanations improved and typos fixed. This version corresponds largely to the published version in JCAP
JCAP 01 (2023), 040
10.1088/1475-7516/2023/01/040
null
gr-qc hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We explore how the initial value problem may be formulated for globally hyperbolic, Hadamard, solutions of the semiclassical Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations. Given a set of data on an initial 3-surface, consisting of the values on the surface of a spacetime metric and its first 3 time derivatives off the surface, we introduce a notion of 'surface Hadamard' state on the CCR algebra of the surface. We conjecture that, for a given such set of classical Cauchy data with a surface Hadamard state satisfying the semiclassical constraint equations, the initial value problem will be well posed. We present similar conjectures for a semiclassical scalars model and semiclassical electrodynamics. Moreover, partly inspired by work of Parker and Simon in 1993, we define semiclassical gravity `physical solutions' to be those that are (jointly smooth) functions of $\hbar$ and of coordinates continuous in $\hbar$ at $\hbar =0$. We conjecture that for such solutions the second and third time derivatives of the metric off the surface need not be specified, but rather will be determined by that continuity condition. Assuming the initial value conjecture for such physical solutions holds, and that a stochastic rule were available which leads to quantum state collapses occurring on (non-intersecting) random Cauchy surfaces, we discuss the well-posedness of semiclassical gravity with stochastic quantum state collapses. We also discuss two notions of approximate physical semiclassical solutions (both with and without collapses): Namely solutions to order $\hbar$ (first discussed by Parker and Simon in 1993) and solutions to order $\hbar^0$. We point out that the latter do not require higher derivative terms or Hadamard subtractions, but that nevertheless order $\hbar^0$ semiclassical gravity is a distinct theory from classical general relativity capable of incorporating quantum interference phenomena.
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2023-03-13
[ [ "Juárez-Aubry", "Benito A.", "" ], [ "Kay", "Bernard S.", "" ], [ "Miramontes", "Tonatiuh", "" ], [ "Sudarsky", "Daniel", "" ] ]
We explore how the initial value problem may be formulated for globally hyperbolic, Hadamard, solutions of the semiclassical Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations. Given a set of data on an initial 3-surface, consisting of the values on the surface of a spacetime metric and its first 3 time derivatives off the surface, we introduce a notion of 'surface Hadamard' state on the CCR algebra of the surface. We conjecture that, for a given such set of classical Cauchy data with a surface Hadamard state satisfying the semiclassical constraint equations, the initial value problem will be well posed. We present similar conjectures for a semiclassical scalars model and semiclassical electrodynamics. Moreover, partly inspired by work of Parker and Simon in 1993, we define semiclassical gravity `physical solutions' to be those that are (jointly smooth) functions of $\hbar$ and of coordinates continuous in $\hbar$ at $\hbar =0$. We conjecture that for such solutions the second and third time derivatives of the metric off the surface need not be specified, but rather will be determined by that continuity condition. Assuming the initial value conjecture for such physical solutions holds, and that a stochastic rule were available which leads to quantum state collapses occurring on (non-intersecting) random Cauchy surfaces, we discuss the well-posedness of semiclassical gravity with stochastic quantum state collapses. We also discuss two notions of approximate physical semiclassical solutions (both with and without collapses): Namely solutions to order $\hbar$ (first discussed by Parker and Simon in 1993) and solutions to order $\hbar^0$. We point out that the latter do not require higher derivative terms or Hadamard subtractions, but that nevertheless order $\hbar^0$ semiclassical gravity is a distinct theory from classical general relativity capable of incorporating quantum interference phenomena.
1112.6333
Francisco Lobo
Francisco S. N. Lobo
Wormhole geometries in modified gravity
4 pages, Prepared for the proceedings of the Spanish Relativity meeting (ERE2011), Madrid, Spain, 29Aug-2Sep 2011
AIP Conf.Proc. 1458 (2011) 447-450
10.1063/1.4734456
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics is the presence of exotic matter, which involves the violation of the null energy condition. Although a plethora of wormhole solutions have been explored in the literature, it is useful to find geometries that minimize the usage of exotic matter. In the context of modified gravity, it has also been shown that the normal matter can be imposed to satisfy the null energy condition, and it is the higher order curvature terms, interpreted as a gravitational fluid, that sustain these non-standard wormhole geometries, fundamentally different from their counterparts in general relativity. In this paper, we review recent work in wormhole physics in the context of modified theories of gravity.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:40:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-07-19
[ [ "Lobo", "Francisco S. N.", "" ] ]
A fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics is the presence of exotic matter, which involves the violation of the null energy condition. Although a plethora of wormhole solutions have been explored in the literature, it is useful to find geometries that minimize the usage of exotic matter. In the context of modified gravity, it has also been shown that the normal matter can be imposed to satisfy the null energy condition, and it is the higher order curvature terms, interpreted as a gravitational fluid, that sustain these non-standard wormhole geometries, fundamentally different from their counterparts in general relativity. In this paper, we review recent work in wormhole physics in the context of modified theories of gravity.
1912.05419
Lu\'is Felipe Longo Micchi Mr.
Luis Felipe Longo Micchi and Cecilia Chirenti
Spicing up the recipe for echoes from exotic compact objects: orbital differences and corrections in rotating backgrounds
11 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication on PRD. Inclusion of a brief discussion about the influence of the increase of the central object's spin
Phys. Rev. D 101, 084010 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.101.084010
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recently it has been argued that near-horizon modifications of the standard (classical) black hole spacetime could lead to observable alterations of the gravitational waveform generated by a binary black hole coalescence. Such modifications can be inspired by quantum gravity considerations, resulting in speculative horizonless exotic compact objects (ECOs) with no singularities, which may be an alternative to the classical black hole solution. A largely model-independent description of these objects proposed in the literature relies on the introduction of a partially reflective wall at some small distance away from the "would-be" horizon. The inspiral-merger-ringdown of a pair of such objects would be subject to possibly detectable deviations from the black hole case due to matter effects. In particular, the ringdown phase would be modified by the late emergence of so-called "echoes" in the waveform, but most studies so far have considered spherically symmetric backgrounds. We use an in-falling scalar charge as an initial perturbation to simulate the excitation of the echoes of a rotating ECO and we explore both the co-rotating and counter-rotating cases, which provide distinct signals. In particular, rotation breaks the symmetry between positive and negative frequencies and introduces a subdominant frequency contribution in each echo, which we examine here for the first time. Our results follow consistently from the solution of the Teukolsky equation using the MST method developed by Mano, Suzuki and Takasugi, and the construction of the complex Green's function integrated over different particle geodesics.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:23:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:34:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-04-08
[ [ "Micchi", "Luis Felipe Longo", "" ], [ "Chirenti", "Cecilia", "" ] ]
Recently it has been argued that near-horizon modifications of the standard (classical) black hole spacetime could lead to observable alterations of the gravitational waveform generated by a binary black hole coalescence. Such modifications can be inspired by quantum gravity considerations, resulting in speculative horizonless exotic compact objects (ECOs) with no singularities, which may be an alternative to the classical black hole solution. A largely model-independent description of these objects proposed in the literature relies on the introduction of a partially reflective wall at some small distance away from the "would-be" horizon. The inspiral-merger-ringdown of a pair of such objects would be subject to possibly detectable deviations from the black hole case due to matter effects. In particular, the ringdown phase would be modified by the late emergence of so-called "echoes" in the waveform, but most studies so far have considered spherically symmetric backgrounds. We use an in-falling scalar charge as an initial perturbation to simulate the excitation of the echoes of a rotating ECO and we explore both the co-rotating and counter-rotating cases, which provide distinct signals. In particular, rotation breaks the symmetry between positive and negative frequencies and introduces a subdominant frequency contribution in each echo, which we examine here for the first time. Our results follow consistently from the solution of the Teukolsky equation using the MST method developed by Mano, Suzuki and Takasugi, and the construction of the complex Green's function integrated over different particle geodesics.
0902.3163
Baojiu Li
Baojiu Li, John D. Barrow
Does Bulk Viscosity Create a Viable Unified Dark Matter Model?
9 pages, 5 figures, references and comments added; to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D79:103521,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.103521
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate in detail the possibility that a single imperfect fluid with bulk viscosity can replace the need for separate dark matter and dark energy in cosmological models. With suitable choices of model parameters, we show that the background cosmology in this model can mimic that of a LCDM Universe to high precision. However, as the cosmic expansion goes through the decelerating-accelerating transition, the density perturbations in this fluid are rapidly damped out. We show that,although this does not significantly affect structure formation in baryonic matter, it makes the gravitational potential decay rapidly at late times, leading to modifications in predictions of cosmological observables such as the CMB power spectrum and weak lensing. This model of unified dark matter is thus difficult to reconcile with astronomical observations. We also clarify the differences with respect to other unified dark matter models where the fluid is barotropic, i.e., p=p(rho), such as the (generalized) Chaplygin gas model, and point out their observational difficulties. We also summarize the status of dark sector models with no new dynamical degrees of freedom introduced and discuss the problems with them.
[ { "created": "Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:26:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:06:59 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 11 May 2009 23:20:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-07-30
[ [ "Li", "Baojiu", "" ], [ "Barrow", "John D.", "" ] ]
We investigate in detail the possibility that a single imperfect fluid with bulk viscosity can replace the need for separate dark matter and dark energy in cosmological models. With suitable choices of model parameters, we show that the background cosmology in this model can mimic that of a LCDM Universe to high precision. However, as the cosmic expansion goes through the decelerating-accelerating transition, the density perturbations in this fluid are rapidly damped out. We show that,although this does not significantly affect structure formation in baryonic matter, it makes the gravitational potential decay rapidly at late times, leading to modifications in predictions of cosmological observables such as the CMB power spectrum and weak lensing. This model of unified dark matter is thus difficult to reconcile with astronomical observations. We also clarify the differences with respect to other unified dark matter models where the fluid is barotropic, i.e., p=p(rho), such as the (generalized) Chaplygin gas model, and point out their observational difficulties. We also summarize the status of dark sector models with no new dynamical degrees of freedom introduced and discuss the problems with them.
1710.07373
Thomas W. Baumgarte
Kenneth A. Dennison and Thomas W. Baumgarte
Schwarzschild-de Sitter Spacetimes, McVittie Coordinates, and Trumpet Geometries
7 pages, 3 figures, added reference
Phys. Rev. D 96, 124014 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevD.96.124014
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Trumpet geometries play an important role in numerical simulations of black hole spacetimes, which are usually performed under the assumption of asymptotic flatness. Our Universe is not asymptotically flat, however, which has motivated numerical studies of black holes in asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes. We derive analytical expressions for trumpet geometries in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes by first generalizing the static maximal trumpet slicing of the Schwarzschild spacetime to static constant mean curvature trumpet slicings of Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes. We then switch to a comoving isotropic radial coordinate which results in a coordinate system analogous to McVittie coordinates. At large distances from the black hole the resulting metric asymptotes to a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric with an exponentially-expanding scale factor. While McVittie coordinates have another asymptotically de Sitter end as the radial coordinate goes to zero, so that they generalize the notion of a "wormhole" geometry, our new coordinates approach a horizon-penetrating trumpet geometry in the same limit. Our analytical expressions clarify the role of time-dependence, boundary conditions and coordinate conditions for trumpet slices in a cosmological context, and provide a useful test for black hole simulations in asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes.
[ { "created": "Thu, 19 Oct 2017 23:43:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:46:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-12-20
[ [ "Dennison", "Kenneth A.", "" ], [ "Baumgarte", "Thomas W.", "" ] ]
Trumpet geometries play an important role in numerical simulations of black hole spacetimes, which are usually performed under the assumption of asymptotic flatness. Our Universe is not asymptotically flat, however, which has motivated numerical studies of black holes in asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes. We derive analytical expressions for trumpet geometries in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes by first generalizing the static maximal trumpet slicing of the Schwarzschild spacetime to static constant mean curvature trumpet slicings of Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes. We then switch to a comoving isotropic radial coordinate which results in a coordinate system analogous to McVittie coordinates. At large distances from the black hole the resulting metric asymptotes to a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric with an exponentially-expanding scale factor. While McVittie coordinates have another asymptotically de Sitter end as the radial coordinate goes to zero, so that they generalize the notion of a "wormhole" geometry, our new coordinates approach a horizon-penetrating trumpet geometry in the same limit. Our analytical expressions clarify the role of time-dependence, boundary conditions and coordinate conditions for trumpet slices in a cosmological context, and provide a useful test for black hole simulations in asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes.
1007.4546
J. A. de Freitas Pacheco
Alain de Roany, J.A. de Freitas Pacheco
Continuous matter creation and the acceleration of the universe: the growth of density fluctuations
11 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation
Gen.Rel.Grav.43:61-72,2011
10.1007/s10714-010-1069-2
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Cosmologies including continuous matter creation are able to reproduce the main properties of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, in particular in cases where the particle and entropy production rates are equal. These specific models, characterized by a mass density equal to the critical value, behave like the standard $\Lambda$CDM model at early times whereas their late evolution is similar to the steady-state cosmology. The maximum amplitude of density fluctuations in these models depends on the adopted creation rate, related here to the parameter $\Omega_v$ and this limitation could be a difficulty for the formation of galaxies and large-scale structure in this class of universe. Additional problems are related with predictions either of the random peculiar velocities of galaxies or the present density of massive clusters of galaxies, both being largely overestimated with respect to observational data.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:57:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-03-07
[ [ "de Roany", "Alain", "" ], [ "Pacheco", "J. A. de Freitas", "" ] ]
Cosmologies including continuous matter creation are able to reproduce the main properties of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, in particular in cases where the particle and entropy production rates are equal. These specific models, characterized by a mass density equal to the critical value, behave like the standard $\Lambda$CDM model at early times whereas their late evolution is similar to the steady-state cosmology. The maximum amplitude of density fluctuations in these models depends on the adopted creation rate, related here to the parameter $\Omega_v$ and this limitation could be a difficulty for the formation of galaxies and large-scale structure in this class of universe. Additional problems are related with predictions either of the random peculiar velocities of galaxies or the present density of massive clusters of galaxies, both being largely overestimated with respect to observational data.
1912.09222
Armando A Roque Roque
Armando A. Roque and J. Barranco
Confusing dark matter particle properties with modifications to General Relativity
Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Phys. Rev. D 102, 104010 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.102.104010
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Cold Dark Stars made of self-gravitating fermions in the degenerate limit are constructed in General Relativity and in R-square gravity, $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2$. The properties of the resulting Cold Dark Stars in both theories of gravity are studied. It is found that the same gravitational potential is generated for different election of the parameters of the model, such as the mass of the fermion, the self-interacting strength or the value of $\alpha$, thus, a possible confusion in the determination of the dark matter properties and the favored theory of gravity might arise.
[ { "created": "Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:31:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:54:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-11-11
[ [ "Roque", "Armando A.", "" ], [ "Barranco", "J.", "" ] ]
Cold Dark Stars made of self-gravitating fermions in the degenerate limit are constructed in General Relativity and in R-square gravity, $f(R)=R+\alpha R^2$. The properties of the resulting Cold Dark Stars in both theories of gravity are studied. It is found that the same gravitational potential is generated for different election of the parameters of the model, such as the mass of the fermion, the self-interacting strength or the value of $\alpha$, thus, a possible confusion in the determination of the dark matter properties and the favored theory of gravity might arise.
gr-qc/0012018
Johan Braennlund
Ingemar Bengtsson, Johan Braennlund (Stockholm University)
2+1 gravity, chaos and time machines
null
J.Math.Phys. 42 (2001) 3565-3579
10.1063/1.1378302
SUITP 00-17
gr-qc
null
2+1 gravity for spacetimes with topology RxT^2 has been much studied. We add a description of how to extend these spacetimes across a Cauchy horizon into a region where the torus becomes Lorentzian. The result is a one parameter family of tori given by a geodesic in the "Teichmueller space" of Lorentzian tori. We describe this in detail. We also point out that if the modular group is regarded as part of the gauge group then these spacetimes offer a nice toy model for the dynamics of Bianchi IX models; in the region where the tori are spacelike the dynamics is described exactly by a hyperbolic billiard. On the other hand the modular group acts ergodically on the Teichmueller space of Lorentzian tori.
[ { "created": "Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:40:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Bengtsson", "Ingemar", "", "Stockholm University" ], [ "Braennlund", "Johan", "", "Stockholm University" ] ]
2+1 gravity for spacetimes with topology RxT^2 has been much studied. We add a description of how to extend these spacetimes across a Cauchy horizon into a region where the torus becomes Lorentzian. The result is a one parameter family of tori given by a geodesic in the "Teichmueller space" of Lorentzian tori. We describe this in detail. We also point out that if the modular group is regarded as part of the gauge group then these spacetimes offer a nice toy model for the dynamics of Bianchi IX models; in the region where the tori are spacelike the dynamics is described exactly by a hyperbolic billiard. On the other hand the modular group acts ergodically on the Teichmueller space of Lorentzian tori.
1509.07956
Xuefeng Zhang
Xinliang An and Xuefeng Zhang
Examples of naked singularity formation in higher-dimensional Einstein-vacuum spacetimes
34 pages, 5 figures; to match the published version which combines this number and arXiv:1509.07954
Ann. Henri Poincare 19 (2018), 619-651
10.1007/s00023-017-0631-9
null
gr-qc hep-th math-ph math.AP math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The vacuum Einstein equations in 5+1 dimensions are shown to admit solutions describing naked singularity formation in gravitational collapse from nonsingular asymptotically locally flat initial data that contain no trapped surface. We present a class of specific examples with topology $\mathbb{R}^{3+1} \times S^2$. Thanks to the Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction, these examples are constructed by lifting continuously self-similar solutions of the 4-dimensional Einstein-scalar field system with a negative exponential potential. The latter solutions are obtained by solving a 3-dimensional autonomous system of first-order ordinary differential equations with a combined analytic and numerical approach. Their existence provides a new test-bed for weak cosmic censorship in higher-dimensional gravity. In addition, we point out that a similar attempt of lifting Christodoulou's naked singularity solutions of massless scalar fields fails to capture formation of naked singularities in 4+1 dimensions, due to a diverging Kretschmann scalar in the initial data.
[ { "created": "Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:33:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 22 Oct 2015 05:52:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 31 Jan 2018 04:34:09 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-02-07
[ [ "An", "Xinliang", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Xuefeng", "" ] ]
The vacuum Einstein equations in 5+1 dimensions are shown to admit solutions describing naked singularity formation in gravitational collapse from nonsingular asymptotically locally flat initial data that contain no trapped surface. We present a class of specific examples with topology $\mathbb{R}^{3+1} \times S^2$. Thanks to the Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction, these examples are constructed by lifting continuously self-similar solutions of the 4-dimensional Einstein-scalar field system with a negative exponential potential. The latter solutions are obtained by solving a 3-dimensional autonomous system of first-order ordinary differential equations with a combined analytic and numerical approach. Their existence provides a new test-bed for weak cosmic censorship in higher-dimensional gravity. In addition, we point out that a similar attempt of lifting Christodoulou's naked singularity solutions of massless scalar fields fails to capture formation of naked singularities in 4+1 dimensions, due to a diverging Kretschmann scalar in the initial data.
2106.02838
Ratchaphat Nakarachinda
Ratchaphat Nakarachinda, Ekapong Hirunsirisawat, Lunchakorn Tannukij and Pitayuth Wongjun
Effective thermodynamical system of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes from R\'{e}nyi statistics
41 pages, 14 figures
Phys. Rev. D 104, 064003 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.064003
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has been known that the Schwarzschild-de Sitter (Sch-dS) black hole may not be in thermal equilibrium and also be found to be thermodynamically unstable in the standard black hole thermodynamics. In the present work, we investigate the possibility to realize the thermodynamical stability of the Sch-dS black hole as an effective system by using the R\'{e}nyi statistics, which includes the non-extensive nature of black holes. Our results indicate that the non-extensivity allows the black hole to be thermodynamically stable which gives rise to the lower bound on the non-extensive parameter. By comparing the results to ones in the separated system approach, we find that the effective temperature is always smaller than the black hole horizon temperature and the thermodynamically stable black hole in effective approach is always larger than one in separated approach at a certain temperature. There exists only the zeroth-order phase transition from the the hot gas phase to the black hole phase for the effective system while it is possible to have the transition of both the zeroth order and the first order for the separated system.
[ { "created": "Sat, 5 Jun 2021 08:37:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Sep 2021 16:50:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-09-03
[ [ "Nakarachinda", "Ratchaphat", "" ], [ "Hirunsirisawat", "Ekapong", "" ], [ "Tannukij", "Lunchakorn", "" ], [ "Wongjun", "Pitayuth", "" ] ]
It has been known that the Schwarzschild-de Sitter (Sch-dS) black hole may not be in thermal equilibrium and also be found to be thermodynamically unstable in the standard black hole thermodynamics. In the present work, we investigate the possibility to realize the thermodynamical stability of the Sch-dS black hole as an effective system by using the R\'{e}nyi statistics, which includes the non-extensive nature of black holes. Our results indicate that the non-extensivity allows the black hole to be thermodynamically stable which gives rise to the lower bound on the non-extensive parameter. By comparing the results to ones in the separated system approach, we find that the effective temperature is always smaller than the black hole horizon temperature and the thermodynamically stable black hole in effective approach is always larger than one in separated approach at a certain temperature. There exists only the zeroth-order phase transition from the the hot gas phase to the black hole phase for the effective system while it is possible to have the transition of both the zeroth order and the first order for the separated system.
2207.00727
Shahram Jalalzadeh
S. Jalalzadeh
Resolution of challenging problems in quantum cosmology with electromagnetic radiation
7 pages, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys. Lett. B 833 (2022) 137285
10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137285
null
gr-qc hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the quantum cosmology of a closed spatially homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) minisuperspace model with electromagnetic radiation as matter content. We solve the corresponding Wheeler-DeWitt equation by utilizing Riemann's zeta function regularization method. We demonstrate that the regularized vacuum energy of the electromagnetic field can overcome factor ordering, boundary conditions, and singularity problems.
[ { "created": "Sat, 2 Jul 2022 03:36:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-07-15
[ [ "Jalalzadeh", "S.", "" ] ]
We investigate the quantum cosmology of a closed spatially homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) minisuperspace model with electromagnetic radiation as matter content. We solve the corresponding Wheeler-DeWitt equation by utilizing Riemann's zeta function regularization method. We demonstrate that the regularized vacuum energy of the electromagnetic field can overcome factor ordering, boundary conditions, and singularity problems.
gr-qc/9912038
Chamula Marian
V. Skalsky
A problem of hypothetical emerging of matter objects on horizon in the standard model of universe
3 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
In the standard model of universe the increase in mass of our observed expansive Universe is explained by the assumption of emerging the matter objects on the horizon (of the most remote visibility). However, the physical analysis of the influence of this assumption on the velocity of matter objects shows unambiguously that this hypothetical assumption contradicts the theory of gravity.
[ { "created": "Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:46:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:31:28 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Skalsky", "V.", "" ] ]
In the standard model of universe the increase in mass of our observed expansive Universe is explained by the assumption of emerging the matter objects on the horizon (of the most remote visibility). However, the physical analysis of the influence of this assumption on the velocity of matter objects shows unambiguously that this hypothetical assumption contradicts the theory of gravity.
1711.02893
Yu Li
Yu Li
Dynamics of two-scalar-field cosmological models beyond the exponential potential
12 pages,3 figures
International Journal of Modern Physics D Vol. 26 (2017) 1750164
10.1142/S0218271817501644
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we discuss the dynamics of two- scalar-field cosmological models. Unlike in the situation of exponential potential, we find that there are late-time attractors in which one scalar field dominates the energy density of universe and the other one decay. We also discuss the possibility of multiple attractors model which is useful to realize the evolution of the universe from a scaling era to recent acceleration era. We also give the conditions of the existence of multiple attractors.
[ { "created": "Wed, 8 Nov 2017 10:11:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-11-09
[ [ "Li", "Yu", "" ] ]
In this paper, we discuss the dynamics of two- scalar-field cosmological models. Unlike in the situation of exponential potential, we find that there are late-time attractors in which one scalar field dominates the energy density of universe and the other one decay. We also discuss the possibility of multiple attractors model which is useful to realize the evolution of the universe from a scaling era to recent acceleration era. We also give the conditions of the existence of multiple attractors.
1503.00098
Salvatore Capozziello
Mariacristina Paolella and Salvatore Capozziello
Hojman Symmetry Approach for Scalar-Tensor Cosmology
6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Lett. A
null
10.1016/j.physleta.2015.02.044
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Scalar-tensor Cosmologies can be dealt under the standard of the Hojman conservation theorem that allows to fix the form of the coupling $F(\phi)$, of the potential $V(\phi)$ and to find out exact solutions for related cosmological models. Specifically, the existence of a symmetry transformation vector for the equations of motion gives rise to a Hojman conserved quantity on the corresponding minisuperpace and exact solutions for the cosmic scale factor $a$ and the scalar field $\phi$ can be achieved. In particular, we take advantage of the fact that minimally coupled solutions, previously obtained in the Einstein frame, can be conformally transformed in non-minimally coupled solutions in the Jordan frame. Some physically relevant examples are worked out.
[ { "created": "Sat, 28 Feb 2015 08:38:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-24
[ [ "Paolella", "Mariacristina", "" ], [ "Capozziello", "Salvatore", "" ] ]
Scalar-tensor Cosmologies can be dealt under the standard of the Hojman conservation theorem that allows to fix the form of the coupling $F(\phi)$, of the potential $V(\phi)$ and to find out exact solutions for related cosmological models. Specifically, the existence of a symmetry transformation vector for the equations of motion gives rise to a Hojman conserved quantity on the corresponding minisuperpace and exact solutions for the cosmic scale factor $a$ and the scalar field $\phi$ can be achieved. In particular, we take advantage of the fact that minimally coupled solutions, previously obtained in the Einstein frame, can be conformally transformed in non-minimally coupled solutions in the Jordan frame. Some physically relevant examples are worked out.
2207.12034
Songbai Chen
Xin Qin, Songbai Chen, Zelin Zhang, Jiliang Jing
Polarized image of a rotating black hole in Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity theory
20 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in Astrophys. J
The Astrophysical Journal, 938:2, 2022
10.3847/1538-4357/ac8f49
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The polarized images of a synchrotron emitting ring are studied in the spacetime of a rotating black hole in the Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity (STVG) theory. The black hole owns an additional dimensionless MOG parameter described its deviation from Kerr black hole. The effects of the MOG parameter on the observed polarization vector and Strokes $Q-U$ loops depend heavily on the spin parameter, the magnetic field configuration, the fluid velocity and the observation inclination angle. For the fixed MOG parameter, the changes of the polarization vector in the image plane are similar to those in the Kerr black hole case. The comparison of the polarization images between Kerr-MOG black hole and M87* implies that there remains some possibility for the STVG-MOG theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:17:21 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 4 Sep 2022 01:36:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-10-26
[ [ "Qin", "Xin", "" ], [ "Chen", "Songbai", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Zelin", "" ], [ "Jing", "Jiliang", "" ] ]
The polarized images of a synchrotron emitting ring are studied in the spacetime of a rotating black hole in the Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity (STVG) theory. The black hole owns an additional dimensionless MOG parameter described its deviation from Kerr black hole. The effects of the MOG parameter on the observed polarization vector and Strokes $Q-U$ loops depend heavily on the spin parameter, the magnetic field configuration, the fluid velocity and the observation inclination angle. For the fixed MOG parameter, the changes of the polarization vector in the image plane are similar to those in the Kerr black hole case. The comparison of the polarization images between Kerr-MOG black hole and M87* implies that there remains some possibility for the STVG-MOG theory.
gr-qc/9712079
Stephen M. Merkowitz
Stephen M. Merkowitz
Solution to the inverse problem for a noisy spherical gravitational wave antenna
12 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D58:062002,1998
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.062002
null
gr-qc
null
A spherical gravitational wave antenna is distinct from other types of gravitational wave antennas in that only a single detector is necessary to determine the direction and polarization of a gravitational wave. Zhou and Michelson showed that the inverse problem can be solved using the maximum likelihood method if the detector outputs are independent and have normally distributed noise with the same variance. This paper presents an analytic solution using only linear algebra that is found to produce identical results as the maximum likelihood method but with less computational burden. Applications of this solution to gravitational waves in alternative symmetric metric theories of gravity and impulsive excitations also are discussed.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Dec 1997 12:49:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:50:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-12-30
[ [ "Merkowitz", "Stephen M.", "" ] ]
A spherical gravitational wave antenna is distinct from other types of gravitational wave antennas in that only a single detector is necessary to determine the direction and polarization of a gravitational wave. Zhou and Michelson showed that the inverse problem can be solved using the maximum likelihood method if the detector outputs are independent and have normally distributed noise with the same variance. This paper presents an analytic solution using only linear algebra that is found to produce identical results as the maximum likelihood method but with less computational burden. Applications of this solution to gravitational waves in alternative symmetric metric theories of gravity and impulsive excitations also are discussed.
gr-qc/9309005
Fonarev Oleg
Oleg A. Fonarev
Wigner function and quantum kinetic theory in curved space-time and external fields
41 pages
J.Math.Phys.35:2105-2129,1994
10.1063/1.530542
null
gr-qc
null
A new definition of the Wigner function for quantum fields coupled to curved space--time and an external Yang--Mills field is studied on the example of a scalar and a Dirac fields. The definition uses the formalism of the tangent bundles and is explicitly covariant and gauge invariant. Derivation of collisionless quantum kinetic equations is carried out for both quantum fields by using the first order formalism of Duffin and Kemmer. The evolution of the Wigner function is governed by the quantum corrected Liouville--Vlasov equation supplemented by the generalized mass--shell constraint. The structure of the quantum corrections is perturbatively found in all adiabatic orders. The lowest order quantum--curvature corrections coincide with the ones found by Winter.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Sep 1993 14:54:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-11-01
[ [ "Fonarev", "Oleg A.", "" ] ]
A new definition of the Wigner function for quantum fields coupled to curved space--time and an external Yang--Mills field is studied on the example of a scalar and a Dirac fields. The definition uses the formalism of the tangent bundles and is explicitly covariant and gauge invariant. Derivation of collisionless quantum kinetic equations is carried out for both quantum fields by using the first order formalism of Duffin and Kemmer. The evolution of the Wigner function is governed by the quantum corrected Liouville--Vlasov equation supplemented by the generalized mass--shell constraint. The structure of the quantum corrections is perturbatively found in all adiabatic orders. The lowest order quantum--curvature corrections coincide with the ones found by Winter.
0808.1042
Vladimir Khatsymovsky
V.M. Khatsymovsky
Defining some integrals in Regge calculus
7 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Regge calculus minisuperspace action in the connection representation has the form in which each term is linear over some field variable (scale of area-type variable with sign). We are interested in the result of performing integration over connections in the path integral. To find this function, we compute its moments, i. e. integrals with powers of that variable. Calculation proceeds through intermediate appearance of $\delta$-functions and integrating them out and leads to finite result for any power. The function of interest should therefore be exponentially suppressed at large areas and it really does being restored from moments. This gives for gravity a way of defining such nonabsolutely convergent integral as path integral.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:09:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-10-09
[ [ "Khatsymovsky", "V. M.", "" ] ]
Regge calculus minisuperspace action in the connection representation has the form in which each term is linear over some field variable (scale of area-type variable with sign). We are interested in the result of performing integration over connections in the path integral. To find this function, we compute its moments, i. e. integrals with powers of that variable. Calculation proceeds through intermediate appearance of $\delta$-functions and integrating them out and leads to finite result for any power. The function of interest should therefore be exponentially suppressed at large areas and it really does being restored from moments. This gives for gravity a way of defining such nonabsolutely convergent integral as path integral.
0802.0330
Stefano Ansoldi
Stefano Ansoldi
Spherical black holes with regular center: a review of existing models including a recent realization with Gaussian sources
LaTeX, 36 pages, 10 figures. To appear in the proceedings of "BH2, Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Blackholes and Naked Singularities", May 10-12 2007, Milano, Italy (conference website: http://www.mate.polimi.it/bh2)
null
null
KUNS-2108
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review, in a historical perspective, some results about black hole spacetimes with a regular center. We then see how their properties are realized in a specific solution that recently appeared; in particular we analyze in detail the (necessary) violation of the strong energy condition.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:13:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-02-05
[ [ "Ansoldi", "Stefano", "" ] ]
We review, in a historical perspective, some results about black hole spacetimes with a regular center. We then see how their properties are realized in a specific solution that recently appeared; in particular we analyze in detail the (necessary) violation of the strong energy condition.
2110.02536
Rui-Yun Guo
Rui-Yun Guo, Lu Feng, Tian-Ying Yao, and Xing-Yu Chen
Exploration of interacting dynamical dark energy model with interaction term including the equation-of-state parameter: alleviation of the $H_{0}$ tension
14 pages, 4 figures
JCAP12(2021)036
10.1088/1475-7516/2021/12/036
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We explore a scenario of interacting dynamical dark energy model with the interaction term $Q$ including the varying equation-of-state parameter $w$. Using the data combination of the cosmic microwave background, the baryon acoustic oscillation, and the type Ia supernovae, to global fit the interacting dynamical dark energy model, we find that adding a factor of the varying $w$ in the function of $Q$ can change correlations between the coupling constant $\beta$ and other parameters, and then has a huge impact on the fitting result of $\beta$. In this model, the fitting value of $H_{0}$ is lower at the $3.54 \sigma$ level than the direct measurement value of $H_{0}$ . Comparing to the case of interacting dynamical dark energy model with $Q$ excluding $w$, the model with $Q$ including the constant $w$ is more favored by the current mainstream observation. To obtain higher fitting values of $H_{0}$ and narrow the discrepancy of $H_{0}$ between different observations, additional parameters including the effective number of relativistic species, the total neutrino mass, and massive sterile neutrinos are considered in the interacting dynamical dark energy cosmology. We find that the $H_{0}$ tension can be further reduced in these models, but is still at the about $3 \sigma$ level.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Oct 2021 06:58:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 22 Nov 2021 06:40:09 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:24:24 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-12-21
[ [ "Guo", "Rui-Yun", "" ], [ "Feng", "Lu", "" ], [ "Yao", "Tian-Ying", "" ], [ "Chen", "Xing-Yu", "" ] ]
We explore a scenario of interacting dynamical dark energy model with the interaction term $Q$ including the varying equation-of-state parameter $w$. Using the data combination of the cosmic microwave background, the baryon acoustic oscillation, and the type Ia supernovae, to global fit the interacting dynamical dark energy model, we find that adding a factor of the varying $w$ in the function of $Q$ can change correlations between the coupling constant $\beta$ and other parameters, and then has a huge impact on the fitting result of $\beta$. In this model, the fitting value of $H_{0}$ is lower at the $3.54 \sigma$ level than the direct measurement value of $H_{0}$ . Comparing to the case of interacting dynamical dark energy model with $Q$ excluding $w$, the model with $Q$ including the constant $w$ is more favored by the current mainstream observation. To obtain higher fitting values of $H_{0}$ and narrow the discrepancy of $H_{0}$ between different observations, additional parameters including the effective number of relativistic species, the total neutrino mass, and massive sterile neutrinos are considered in the interacting dynamical dark energy cosmology. We find that the $H_{0}$ tension can be further reduced in these models, but is still at the about $3 \sigma$ level.
1303.7062
Boris E. Meierovich
Boris E. Meierovich
Galaxy rotation curves. The theory
17 pages, 13 figures
Physical Review D 87, D 87, 103510 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103510
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The non-gauge vector field with as simple as possible Lagrangian (\ref{Lagrangian}) turned out an adequate tool for macroscopic description of the main properties of dark matter. The dependence of the velocity of a star on the radius of the orbit $V\left(r\right) $ -- galaxy rotation curve -- is derived analytically from the first principles\ completely within the Einstein's general relativity. The Milgrom's empirical modification of Newtonian dynamics in nonrelativistic limit (MOND) gets justified and specified in detail. In particular, the transition to a plateau is accompanied by damping oscillations. In the scale of a galaxy, and in the scale of the whole universe, the dark matter is described by a vector field with the same energy-momentum tensor. It is the evidence of the common physical nature. Now, when we have the general expression (\ref{Tik b=c=0}) for the energy-momentum tensor of dark matter, it is possible to analyze its influence on the structure and evolution of super heavy stars and black holes.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:13:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-05-24
[ [ "Meierovich", "Boris E.", "" ] ]
The non-gauge vector field with as simple as possible Lagrangian (\ref{Lagrangian}) turned out an adequate tool for macroscopic description of the main properties of dark matter. The dependence of the velocity of a star on the radius of the orbit $V\left(r\right) $ -- galaxy rotation curve -- is derived analytically from the first principles\ completely within the Einstein's general relativity. The Milgrom's empirical modification of Newtonian dynamics in nonrelativistic limit (MOND) gets justified and specified in detail. In particular, the transition to a plateau is accompanied by damping oscillations. In the scale of a galaxy, and in the scale of the whole universe, the dark matter is described by a vector field with the same energy-momentum tensor. It is the evidence of the common physical nature. Now, when we have the general expression (\ref{Tik b=c=0}) for the energy-momentum tensor of dark matter, it is possible to analyze its influence on the structure and evolution of super heavy stars and black holes.
1212.1477
Sam Dolan Dr
Sam R. Dolan
Superradiant instabilities of rotating black holes in the time domain
17 pages, 13 figures, to match journal version
Phys. Rev. D 87, 124026 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.124026
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Bosonic fields on rotating black hole spacetimes are subject to amplification by superradiance, which induces exponentially-growing instabilities (the `black hole bomb') in two scenarios: if the black hole is enclosed by a mirror, or if the bosonic field has rest mass. Here we present a time-domain study of the scalar field on Kerr spacetime which probes ultra-long timescales up to $t \lesssim 5 \times 10^6 M$, to reveal the growth of the instability. We describe an highly-efficient method for evolving the field, based on a spectral decomposition into a coupled set of 1+1D equations, and an absorbing boundary condition inspired by the `perfectly-matched layers' paradigm. First, we examine the mirror case to study how the instability timescale and mode structure depend on mirror radius. Next, we examine the massive-field, whose rich spectrum (revealed through Fourier analysis) generates `beating' effects which disguise the instability. We show that the instability is clearly revealed by tracking the stress-energy of the field in the exterior spacetime. We calculate the growth rate for a range of mass couplings, by applying a frequency-filer to isolate individual modal contributions to the time-domain signal. Our results are in accord with previous frequency-domain studies which put the maximum growth rate at $\tau^{-1} \approx 1.72 \times 10^{-7} (GM/c^3)^{-1}$ for the massive scalar field on Kerr spacetime.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Dec 2012 21:28:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 1 Jul 2013 11:16:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-07-02
[ [ "Dolan", "Sam R.", "" ] ]
Bosonic fields on rotating black hole spacetimes are subject to amplification by superradiance, which induces exponentially-growing instabilities (the `black hole bomb') in two scenarios: if the black hole is enclosed by a mirror, or if the bosonic field has rest mass. Here we present a time-domain study of the scalar field on Kerr spacetime which probes ultra-long timescales up to $t \lesssim 5 \times 10^6 M$, to reveal the growth of the instability. We describe an highly-efficient method for evolving the field, based on a spectral decomposition into a coupled set of 1+1D equations, and an absorbing boundary condition inspired by the `perfectly-matched layers' paradigm. First, we examine the mirror case to study how the instability timescale and mode structure depend on mirror radius. Next, we examine the massive-field, whose rich spectrum (revealed through Fourier analysis) generates `beating' effects which disguise the instability. We show that the instability is clearly revealed by tracking the stress-energy of the field in the exterior spacetime. We calculate the growth rate for a range of mass couplings, by applying a frequency-filer to isolate individual modal contributions to the time-domain signal. Our results are in accord with previous frequency-domain studies which put the maximum growth rate at $\tau^{-1} \approx 1.72 \times 10^{-7} (GM/c^3)^{-1}$ for the massive scalar field on Kerr spacetime.
0912.2397
Chen Songbai
Songbai Chen, Liancheng Wang, Chikun Ding, Jiliang Jing
Holographic superconductors in the AdS black hole spacetime with a global monopole
12 pages, 4 figures, references added and corrected, accepted for publication in NPB
Nucl.Phys. B836:222-231,2010
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.04.025
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study holographic superconductors in the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole with a global monopole through a charged complex scalar field. We calculate the condensates of the charged operators in the dual conformal field theories (CFTs) and discuss the effects of the global monopole on the condensation formation. Moreover, we compute the electric conductive using the probe approximation and find that the properties of the conductive are quite similar to those in the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole. These results can help us know more about holographic superconductors in the asymptotic AdS black holes.
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2014-11-20
[ [ "Chen", "Songbai", "" ], [ "Wang", "Liancheng", "" ], [ "Ding", "Chikun", "" ], [ "Jing", "Jiliang", "" ] ]
We study holographic superconductors in the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole with a global monopole through a charged complex scalar field. We calculate the condensates of the charged operators in the dual conformal field theories (CFTs) and discuss the effects of the global monopole on the condensation formation. Moreover, we compute the electric conductive using the probe approximation and find that the properties of the conductive are quite similar to those in the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole. These results can help us know more about holographic superconductors in the asymptotic AdS black holes.
gr-qc/0208038
John Eastmond
John F.G. Eastmond
The Doomsday Argument, Consciousness and Many Worlds
LaTeX2e, 30 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
The doomsday argument is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the total lifetime of the human race. By examining the case of an individual lifetime, I conclude that the argument is fundamentally related to consciousness. I derive a reformulation stating that an infinite conscious lifetime is not possible even in principle. By considering a hypothetical conscious computer, running a non-terminating program, I deduce that consciousness cannot be generated by a single set of deterministic laws. Instead, I hypothesize that consciousness is generated by a superposition of brain states that is simultaneously associated with many quasi-classical histories, each following a different set of deterministic laws. I generalize the doomsday argument and discover that it makes no prediction in this case. Thus I conclude that the very fact of our consciousness provides us with evidence for a many-worlds interpretation of reality in which our future is not predictable using anthropic reasoning.
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2007-05-23
[ [ "Eastmond", "John F. G.", "" ] ]
The doomsday argument is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the total lifetime of the human race. By examining the case of an individual lifetime, I conclude that the argument is fundamentally related to consciousness. I derive a reformulation stating that an infinite conscious lifetime is not possible even in principle. By considering a hypothetical conscious computer, running a non-terminating program, I deduce that consciousness cannot be generated by a single set of deterministic laws. Instead, I hypothesize that consciousness is generated by a superposition of brain states that is simultaneously associated with many quasi-classical histories, each following a different set of deterministic laws. I generalize the doomsday argument and discover that it makes no prediction in this case. Thus I conclude that the very fact of our consciousness provides us with evidence for a many-worlds interpretation of reality in which our future is not predictable using anthropic reasoning.
gr-qc/0406027
Hossein Shojaie
Hossein Shojaie, Mehrdad Farhoudi
A varying-c cosmology
11 pages
Can.J.Phys.85:1395-1408,2007
10.1139/P07-132
null
gr-qc astro-ph
null
We develop a new model for the Universe based on two key assumptions: first, the inertial energy of the Universe is a constant, and second, the total energy of a particle, the inertial plus the gravitational potential energy produced by the other mass in the Universe, is zero. This model allows the speed of light and the total mass of the Universe to vary as functions of cosmological time, where we assume the gravitational constant to be a constant. By means of these assumptions, the relations between the scale factor and the other parameters are derived. The Einstein equation, by making it compatible with varying-$c$, is used and the Friedmann equations in this model are obtained. Assuming the matter content of the Universe to be perfect fluids, the model fixes $\gamma$ to be 2/3. That is, the whole Universe always exhibits a negative pressure. Moreover, the behavior of the scale factor is the same for any value of the curvature. It is also shown that the Universe began from a big bang with zero initial mass and expands forever even with positive curvature, but it is always decelerating. At the end, solutions to some famous problems, mainly of the standard big bang model, and an explanation for the observational data about the accelerating Universe are provided.
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2008-11-26
[ [ "Shojaie", "Hossein", "" ], [ "Farhoudi", "Mehrdad", "" ] ]
We develop a new model for the Universe based on two key assumptions: first, the inertial energy of the Universe is a constant, and second, the total energy of a particle, the inertial plus the gravitational potential energy produced by the other mass in the Universe, is zero. This model allows the speed of light and the total mass of the Universe to vary as functions of cosmological time, where we assume the gravitational constant to be a constant. By means of these assumptions, the relations between the scale factor and the other parameters are derived. The Einstein equation, by making it compatible with varying-$c$, is used and the Friedmann equations in this model are obtained. Assuming the matter content of the Universe to be perfect fluids, the model fixes $\gamma$ to be 2/3. That is, the whole Universe always exhibits a negative pressure. Moreover, the behavior of the scale factor is the same for any value of the curvature. It is also shown that the Universe began from a big bang with zero initial mass and expands forever even with positive curvature, but it is always decelerating. At the end, solutions to some famous problems, mainly of the standard big bang model, and an explanation for the observational data about the accelerating Universe are provided.
2406.05544
Fernando Carneiro
F. L. Carneiro, B. C. C. Carneiro, D. L. Azevedo and S. C. Ulhoa
On Nanocones as a Gravitational Analog System
13 pages, 6 figures. Comments are welcome
null
null
null
gr-qc
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This study delves into the fundamental properties of graphene and boron nitride (BN) nanostructures, exploring their torsional energy characteristics within the framework of Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR). By constructing nanocones with disclination defects in these materials, we investigate the linear dependence of torsional energy on the disclination angle, as predicted by TEGR. The qualitative validation of TEGR's energy expression is supported by our simulations, which show a strong correlation between the torsional energy and the disclination angle, consistent with the theoretical predictions. Furthermore, we propose a quantitative analysis by estimating the coupling constant $k$ associated with TEGR through molecular simulations and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. Our results suggest that $k$ reflects the interatomic forces within the materials, providing insights into the nature of spacetime and gravitational interactions on a microscopic scale. These findings not only contribute to our understanding of material physics but also offer implications for the precision and validity of TEGR in describing gravitational phenomena.
[ { "created": "Sat, 8 Jun 2024 18:20:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-06-11
[ [ "Carneiro", "F. L.", "" ], [ "Carneiro", "B. C. C.", "" ], [ "Azevedo", "D. L.", "" ], [ "Ulhoa", "S. C.", "" ] ]
This study delves into the fundamental properties of graphene and boron nitride (BN) nanostructures, exploring their torsional energy characteristics within the framework of Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR). By constructing nanocones with disclination defects in these materials, we investigate the linear dependence of torsional energy on the disclination angle, as predicted by TEGR. The qualitative validation of TEGR's energy expression is supported by our simulations, which show a strong correlation between the torsional energy and the disclination angle, consistent with the theoretical predictions. Furthermore, we propose a quantitative analysis by estimating the coupling constant $k$ associated with TEGR through molecular simulations and Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. Our results suggest that $k$ reflects the interatomic forces within the materials, providing insights into the nature of spacetime and gravitational interactions on a microscopic scale. These findings not only contribute to our understanding of material physics but also offer implications for the precision and validity of TEGR in describing gravitational phenomena.
1910.12344
Jaroslaw Jaracz
Jaroslaw Jaracz
The Penrose inequality and positive mass theorem with charge for manifolds with asymptotically cylindrical ends
null
null
10.1007/s00023-020-00927-z
null
gr-qc math-ph math.DG math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We establish the charged Penrose inequality for time symmetric initial data sets having an outermost minimal surface boundary and finitely many asymptotically cylindrical ends, with an appropriate rigidity statement. This is accomplished by a doubling argument based on the work of Weinstein and Yamada, and a subsequent application of the ordinary charged Penrose inequality as established by Khuri, Weinstein, and Yamada. Furthermore, the techniques used in the aforementioned proof allow for the proof of the positive mass theorem with charge for such manifolds.
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2020-08-26
[ [ "Jaracz", "Jaroslaw", "" ] ]
We establish the charged Penrose inequality for time symmetric initial data sets having an outermost minimal surface boundary and finitely many asymptotically cylindrical ends, with an appropriate rigidity statement. This is accomplished by a doubling argument based on the work of Weinstein and Yamada, and a subsequent application of the ordinary charged Penrose inequality as established by Khuri, Weinstein, and Yamada. Furthermore, the techniques used in the aforementioned proof allow for the proof of the positive mass theorem with charge for such manifolds.
gr-qc/0001090
Takahiro Tanaka
Takahiro Tanaka and Hideyuki Tagoshi
The use of new coordinates for the template space in hierarchical search for gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries
8 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev.D62:082001,2000
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.082001
OU-TAP 114; UAB-FT 484
gr-qc
null
We discuss a method to analyze data from interferometric gravitational wave detectors focusing on the technique of hierarchical search to detect gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries. For this purpose, we propose new coordinates to parameterize the template space. Using our new coordinates, we develop several new techniques for two step search, which would reduce the computation cost by large amount. These techniques become more important when we need to implement a $\chi^2$-test as a detection criterion.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:19:46 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-12-30
[ [ "Tanaka", "Takahiro", "" ], [ "Tagoshi", "Hideyuki", "" ] ]
We discuss a method to analyze data from interferometric gravitational wave detectors focusing on the technique of hierarchical search to detect gravitational waves from inspiraling binaries. For this purpose, we propose new coordinates to parameterize the template space. Using our new coordinates, we develop several new techniques for two step search, which would reduce the computation cost by large amount. These techniques become more important when we need to implement a $\chi^2$-test as a detection criterion.
gr-qc/9702006
Ruth M. Williams
Ruth M. Williams
Recent Progress in Regge Calculus
9 pages, no figures, LaTeX. Submitted to the Proceedings of the Second Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, September 1996
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 57 (1997) 73-81
10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00355-1
DAMTP/97-5
gr-qc
null
While there has been some advance in the use of Regge calculus as a tool in numerical relativity, the main progress in Regge calculus recently has been in quantum gravity. After a brief discussion of this progress, attention is focussed on two particular, related aspects. Firstly, the possible definitions of diffeomorphisms or gauge transformations in Regge calculus are examined and examples are given. Secondly, an investigation of the signature of the simplicial supermetric is described. This is the Lund-Regge metric on simplicial configuration space and defines the distance between simplicial three-geometries. Information on its signature can be used to extend the rather limited results on the signature of the supermetric in the continuum case. This information is obtained by a combination of analytic and numerical techniques. For the three-sphere and the three-torus, the numerical results agree with the analytic ones and show the existence of degeneracy and signature change. Some ``vertical'' directions in simplicial configuration space, corresponding to simplicial metrics related by gauge transformations, are found for the three-torus.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Feb 1997 12:46:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-08-31
[ [ "Williams", "Ruth M.", "" ] ]
While there has been some advance in the use of Regge calculus as a tool in numerical relativity, the main progress in Regge calculus recently has been in quantum gravity. After a brief discussion of this progress, attention is focussed on two particular, related aspects. Firstly, the possible definitions of diffeomorphisms or gauge transformations in Regge calculus are examined and examples are given. Secondly, an investigation of the signature of the simplicial supermetric is described. This is the Lund-Regge metric on simplicial configuration space and defines the distance between simplicial three-geometries. Information on its signature can be used to extend the rather limited results on the signature of the supermetric in the continuum case. This information is obtained by a combination of analytic and numerical techniques. For the three-sphere and the three-torus, the numerical results agree with the analytic ones and show the existence of degeneracy and signature change. Some ``vertical'' directions in simplicial configuration space, corresponding to simplicial metrics related by gauge transformations, are found for the three-torus.
2210.06081
Dmitri Fursaev
Dmitri V. Fursaev
Black Hole Thermodynamics and Perturbative Quantum Gravity
Invited chapter for the Section "Perturbative Quantum Gravity" of the "Handbook of Quantum Gravity" (Eds. C. Bambi, L. Modesto and I.L. Shapiro, Springer Singapore, expected in 2023), 36 pages
null
null
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
An introduction to generalized thermodynamics of quantum black holes, in the one-loop approximation, is given. The material is aimed at graduate students. The topics include: quantum evaporation of black holes, Euclidean formulation of quantum theory on black hole backgrounds, the Hartle-Hawking-Israel state, generalized entropy of a quantum black hole and its relation to the entropy of entanglement.
[ { "created": "Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:53:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-10-13
[ [ "Fursaev", "Dmitri V.", "" ] ]
An introduction to generalized thermodynamics of quantum black holes, in the one-loop approximation, is given. The material is aimed at graduate students. The topics include: quantum evaporation of black holes, Euclidean formulation of quantum theory on black hole backgrounds, the Hartle-Hawking-Israel state, generalized entropy of a quantum black hole and its relation to the entropy of entanglement.
1412.6000
Andrea Dapor
Mehdi Assanioussi, Andrea Dapor, Jerzy Lewandowski
Rainbow metric from quantum gravity
4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted version in PLB
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.043
null
gr-qc hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this letter, we describe a general mechanism for emergence of a rainbow metric from a quantum cosmological model. This idea is based on QFT on a quantum space-time. Under general assumptions, we discover that the quantum space-time on which the field propagates can be replaced by a classical space-time, whose metric depends explicitly on the energy of the field: as shown by an analysis of dispersion relations, quanta of different energy propagate on different metrics, similar to photons in a refractive material (hence the name "rainbow" used in the literature). In deriving this result, we do not consider any specific theory of quantum gravity: the qualitative behavior of high-energy particles on quantum space-time relies only on the assumption that the quantum space-time is described by a wave-function $\Psi_o$ in a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_G$.
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2015-10-29
[ [ "Assanioussi", "Mehdi", "" ], [ "Dapor", "Andrea", "" ], [ "Lewandowski", "Jerzy", "" ] ]
In this letter, we describe a general mechanism for emergence of a rainbow metric from a quantum cosmological model. This idea is based on QFT on a quantum space-time. Under general assumptions, we discover that the quantum space-time on which the field propagates can be replaced by a classical space-time, whose metric depends explicitly on the energy of the field: as shown by an analysis of dispersion relations, quanta of different energy propagate on different metrics, similar to photons in a refractive material (hence the name "rainbow" used in the literature). In deriving this result, we do not consider any specific theory of quantum gravity: the qualitative behavior of high-energy particles on quantum space-time relies only on the assumption that the quantum space-time is described by a wave-function $\Psi_o$ in a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_G$.
2201.13334
Lisa Valerie Drummond
Lisa V. Drummond and Scott A. Hughes
Precisely computing bound orbits of spinning bodies around black holes I: General framework and results for nearly equatorial orbits
38 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review D; corrected typo in Equation (C6)
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.124040
null
gr-qc astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Very large mass ratio binary black hole systems are of interest both as a clean limit of the two-body problem in general relativity, as well as for their importance as sources of low-frequency gravitational waves. At lowest order, the smaller body moves along a geodesic of the larger black hole's spacetime. Post-geodesic effects include the gravitational self force, which incorporates the backreaction of gravitational-wave emission, and the spin-curvature force, which arises from coupling of the small body's spin to the black hole's spacetime curvature. In this paper, we describe a method for precisely computing bound orbits of spinning bodies about black holes. Our analysis builds off of pioneering work by Witzany which demonstrated how to describe the motion of a spinning body to linear order in the small body's spin. Exploiting the fact that in the large mass-ratio limit spinning-body orbits are close to geodesics and using closed-form results due to van de Meent describing precession of the small body's spin along black hole orbits, we develop a frequency-domain formulation of the motion which can be solved very precisely. We examine a range of orbits with this formulation, focusing in this paper on orbits which are eccentric and nearly equatorial (i.e., the orbit's motion is $\mathcal{O}(S)$ out of the equatorial plane), but for which the small body's spin is arbitrarily oriented. We discuss generic orbits with general small-body spin orientation in a companion paper. We characterize the behavior of these orbits and show how the small body's spin shifts the frequencies $\Omega_r$ and $\Omega_\phi$ which affect orbital motion. These frequency shifts change accumulated phases which are direct gravitational-wave observables, illustrating the importance of precisely characterizing these quantities for gravitational-wave observations. (Abridged)
[ { "created": "Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:30:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:40:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-07-13
[ [ "Drummond", "Lisa V.", "" ], [ "Hughes", "Scott A.", "" ] ]
Very large mass ratio binary black hole systems are of interest both as a clean limit of the two-body problem in general relativity, as well as for their importance as sources of low-frequency gravitational waves. At lowest order, the smaller body moves along a geodesic of the larger black hole's spacetime. Post-geodesic effects include the gravitational self force, which incorporates the backreaction of gravitational-wave emission, and the spin-curvature force, which arises from coupling of the small body's spin to the black hole's spacetime curvature. In this paper, we describe a method for precisely computing bound orbits of spinning bodies about black holes. Our analysis builds off of pioneering work by Witzany which demonstrated how to describe the motion of a spinning body to linear order in the small body's spin. Exploiting the fact that in the large mass-ratio limit spinning-body orbits are close to geodesics and using closed-form results due to van de Meent describing precession of the small body's spin along black hole orbits, we develop a frequency-domain formulation of the motion which can be solved very precisely. We examine a range of orbits with this formulation, focusing in this paper on orbits which are eccentric and nearly equatorial (i.e., the orbit's motion is $\mathcal{O}(S)$ out of the equatorial plane), but for which the small body's spin is arbitrarily oriented. We discuss generic orbits with general small-body spin orientation in a companion paper. We characterize the behavior of these orbits and show how the small body's spin shifts the frequencies $\Omega_r$ and $\Omega_\phi$ which affect orbital motion. These frequency shifts change accumulated phases which are direct gravitational-wave observables, illustrating the importance of precisely characterizing these quantities for gravitational-wave observations. (Abridged)
gr-qc/9404011
Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin
The fate of black hole singularities and the parameters of the standard models of particle physics and cosmology
LaTeX, 27 p.CGPG-94/3-5
null
null
null
gr-qc
null
A cosmological scenario which explains the values of the parameters of the standard models of elementary particle physics and cosmology is discussed. In this scenario these parameters are set by a process analogous to natural selection which follows naturally from the assumption that the singularities in black holes are removed by quantum effects leading to the creation of new expanding regions of the universe. The suggestion of J. A. Wheeler that the parameters change randomly at such events leads naturally to the conjecture that the parameters have been selected for values that extremize the production of black holes. This leads directly to a prediction, which is that small changes in any of the parameters should lead to a decrease in the number of black holes produced by the universe. On plausible astrophysical assumptions it is found that changes in many of the parameters do lead to a decrease in the number of black holes produced by spiral galaxies. These include the masses of the proton,neutron, electron and neutrino and the weak, strong and electromagnetic coupling constants. Finally,this scenario predicts a natural time scale for cosmology equal to the time over which spiral galaxies maintain appreciable rates of star formation, which is compatible with current observations that $\Omega = .1-.2$.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Apr 1994 23:59:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Smolin", "Lee", "" ] ]
A cosmological scenario which explains the values of the parameters of the standard models of elementary particle physics and cosmology is discussed. In this scenario these parameters are set by a process analogous to natural selection which follows naturally from the assumption that the singularities in black holes are removed by quantum effects leading to the creation of new expanding regions of the universe. The suggestion of J. A. Wheeler that the parameters change randomly at such events leads naturally to the conjecture that the parameters have been selected for values that extremize the production of black holes. This leads directly to a prediction, which is that small changes in any of the parameters should lead to a decrease in the number of black holes produced by the universe. On plausible astrophysical assumptions it is found that changes in many of the parameters do lead to a decrease in the number of black holes produced by spiral galaxies. These include the masses of the proton,neutron, electron and neutrino and the weak, strong and electromagnetic coupling constants. Finally,this scenario predicts a natural time scale for cosmology equal to the time over which spiral galaxies maintain appreciable rates of star formation, which is compatible with current observations that $\Omega = .1-.2$.
1706.01484
Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez
Imanol Albarran, Mariam Bouhmadi-L\'opez, Jo\~ao Morais
What if gravity becomes really repulsive in the future?
7 pages, 3 figures. Further explanations provided. Version accepted in EPJC
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5728-x
null
gr-qc astro-ph.CO hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The current acceleration of the Universe is one of the most puzzling issues in theoretical physics nowadays. We are far from giving an answer on this letter to its true nature. Yet, with the observations we have at hand, we analyse the different patterns that the gravitational potential can show in the future. Surprisingly, gravity not only can get weaker in the near future, it can even become repulsive; or equivalently, the gravitational potential may become negative. We show this remark by using one of the simplest phenomenological model we can imagine for dark energy. We have as well reviewed the statefinder approach of these models. For completeness, we have also showed the behaviour of the density contrast of dark matter and dark energy for these simple (yet illustrative models). Our results are displayed at present and how they evolve in the future.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Jun 2017 18:18:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:36:04 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:20:17 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-04-18
[ [ "Albarran", "Imanol", "" ], [ "Bouhmadi-López", "Mariam", "" ], [ "Morais", "João", "" ] ]
The current acceleration of the Universe is one of the most puzzling issues in theoretical physics nowadays. We are far from giving an answer on this letter to its true nature. Yet, with the observations we have at hand, we analyse the different patterns that the gravitational potential can show in the future. Surprisingly, gravity not only can get weaker in the near future, it can even become repulsive; or equivalently, the gravitational potential may become negative. We show this remark by using one of the simplest phenomenological model we can imagine for dark energy. We have as well reviewed the statefinder approach of these models. For completeness, we have also showed the behaviour of the density contrast of dark matter and dark energy for these simple (yet illustrative models). Our results are displayed at present and how they evolve in the future.
1705.04602
Anna Paula Bacalhau
Anna Paula Bacalhau, Patrick Peter and Sandro D. P. Vitenti
Anisotropic multiple bounce models
11 pages, 9 figures, minor corrections
Phys. Rev. D 96, 023517 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevD.96.023517
null
gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze the Galileon ghost condensate implementation of a bouncing cosmological model in the presence of a non negligible anisotropic stress. We exhibit its structure, which we find to be far richer than previously thought. In particular, even restricting attention to a single set of underlying microscopic parameters, we obtain, numerically, many qualitatively different regimes: depending on the initial conditions on the scalar field leading the dynamics of the universe, the contraction phase can evolve directly towards a singularity, avoid it by bouncing once, or even bounce many times before settling into an ever-expanding phase. We clarify the behavior of the anisotropies in these various situations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 May 2017 14:48:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:12:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-07-26
[ [ "Bacalhau", "Anna Paula", "" ], [ "Peter", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Vitenti", "Sandro D. P.", "" ] ]
We analyze the Galileon ghost condensate implementation of a bouncing cosmological model in the presence of a non negligible anisotropic stress. We exhibit its structure, which we find to be far richer than previously thought. In particular, even restricting attention to a single set of underlying microscopic parameters, we obtain, numerically, many qualitatively different regimes: depending on the initial conditions on the scalar field leading the dynamics of the universe, the contraction phase can evolve directly towards a singularity, avoid it by bouncing once, or even bounce many times before settling into an ever-expanding phase. We clarify the behavior of the anisotropies in these various situations.
2207.13114
Yves Brihaye
Yves Brihaye, Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu
$D=5$ static, charged black holes, strings and rings with resonant, scalar $Q$-hair
30 pages, 8 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP10(2022)153
null
gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A mechanism for circumventing the Mayo-Bekenstein no-hair theorem allows endowing four dimensional $(D=4)$ asymptotically flat, spherical, electro-vacuum black holes with a minimally coupled $U(1)$-gauged scalar field profile: $Q$-$hair$. The scalar field must be massive, self-interacting and obey a {\it resonance condition} at the threshold of (charged) superradiance. We establish generality for this mechanism by endowing three different types of static black objects with scalar hair, within a $D=5$ Einstein-Maxwell-gauged scalar field model: asymptotically flat black holes and black rings; and black strings which asymptote to a Kaluza-Klein vacuum. These $D=5$ $Q$-hairy black objects share many of the features of their $D=4$ counterparts. In particular, the scalar field is subject to a resonance condition and possesses a $Q$-ball type potential. For the static black ring, the charged scalar hair can balance it, yielding solutions that are singularity free on and outside the horizon.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:05:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-11-09
[ [ "Brihaye", "Yves", "" ], [ "Herdeiro", "Carlos", "" ], [ "Radu", "Eugen", "" ] ]
A mechanism for circumventing the Mayo-Bekenstein no-hair theorem allows endowing four dimensional $(D=4)$ asymptotically flat, spherical, electro-vacuum black holes with a minimally coupled $U(1)$-gauged scalar field profile: $Q$-$hair$. The scalar field must be massive, self-interacting and obey a {\it resonance condition} at the threshold of (charged) superradiance. We establish generality for this mechanism by endowing three different types of static black objects with scalar hair, within a $D=5$ Einstein-Maxwell-gauged scalar field model: asymptotically flat black holes and black rings; and black strings which asymptote to a Kaluza-Klein vacuum. These $D=5$ $Q$-hairy black objects share many of the features of their $D=4$ counterparts. In particular, the scalar field is subject to a resonance condition and possesses a $Q$-ball type potential. For the static black ring, the charged scalar hair can balance it, yielding solutions that are singularity free on and outside the horizon.
2310.20523
Sen Guo
Sen Guo, Yu-Xiang Huang, Yu-Hao Cui, Yan Han, Qing-Quan Jiang, En-Wei Liang, Kai Lin
Unveiling the unconventional optical signatures of regular black holes within accretion disk
27 pages, 10 figures
Published European Physical Journal C (2023)
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gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The optical characteristics of three types of black holes (BHs) surrounded by a thin accretion disk are discussed, namely the Schwarzschild BH, Bardeen BH, and Hayward BH. We calculate the deflection angle of light as it traverses the vicinity of each BH using numerical integration and semi-analytical methods, revealing that both approaches can effectively elucidate the deflection of light around the BH. We investigate the optical appearance of the accretion disk and its corresponding observational images at various viewing angles, discovering that the luminosity in the region near the BH on the inner side of the accretion disk is higher than that on the outer side owing to higher material density in closer proximity to the BH. We observe a significant accumulation of brightness on the left side of the accretion disk, attributed to the motion of matter and geometric effects. Our findings emphasize the significant influence of the observation inclination angle on the observed outcomes. An increase in the observation inclination angle results in the separation of higher-order images. With the improvement in EHT observation accuracy, we believe that the feature of a minimal distance between the innermost region of the direct image of the Hayward BH and the outermost region of the secondary image can be used as an indicator for identifying Hayward BHs.
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2023-11-02
[ [ "Guo", "Sen", "" ], [ "Huang", "Yu-Xiang", "" ], [ "Cui", "Yu-Hao", "" ], [ "Han", "Yan", "" ], [ "Jiang", "Qing-Quan", "" ], [ "Liang", "En-Wei", "" ], [ "Lin", "Kai", "" ] ]
The optical characteristics of three types of black holes (BHs) surrounded by a thin accretion disk are discussed, namely the Schwarzschild BH, Bardeen BH, and Hayward BH. We calculate the deflection angle of light as it traverses the vicinity of each BH using numerical integration and semi-analytical methods, revealing that both approaches can effectively elucidate the deflection of light around the BH. We investigate the optical appearance of the accretion disk and its corresponding observational images at various viewing angles, discovering that the luminosity in the region near the BH on the inner side of the accretion disk is higher than that on the outer side owing to higher material density in closer proximity to the BH. We observe a significant accumulation of brightness on the left side of the accretion disk, attributed to the motion of matter and geometric effects. Our findings emphasize the significant influence of the observation inclination angle on the observed outcomes. An increase in the observation inclination angle results in the separation of higher-order images. With the improvement in EHT observation accuracy, we believe that the feature of a minimal distance between the innermost region of the direct image of the Hayward BH and the outermost region of the secondary image can be used as an indicator for identifying Hayward BHs.