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The radiation zone in general relativityThe radiation zone in electrodynamics is the region far enough away from the charges that the 1/r part of the field dominates over the 1/r2 piece. This concept is key in explaining two…David Garfinkle·May 3, 2026SaveLearn
Scalar-Electromagnetic Couplings as Source of Deformed Black Hole: From Shadows to Thermodynamic TopologyWe reconstruct a static and spherically symmetric black hole geometry originally proposed as an effective metric by identifying a consistent matter source derived from a fundamental action. The…Ednaldo L. B. Junior, José Tarciso S. S. Junior, Francisco S. N. Lobo et al.·May 3, 2026SaveLearn
Bertotti-Robinson and Bonnor-Melvin universes in nonlinear electrodynamicsWe review the status of Birkhoff's theorem in the presence of nonlinear electrodynamics (NLE) - extending the analysis to the case without asymptotic flatness. This leads to the…David Kubiznak, Otakar Svitek, Tayebeh Tahamtan·May 3, 2026SaveLearn
Polarization structure of gravitational waves in extended relativityWe analyze the polarization structure of gravitational waves in the framework of Extended Relativity (ER), using the deviation tensor as the fundamental observable quantity. Starting from the…Yaakov Friedman·May 3, 2026SaveLearn
Reevaluation of Inflationary Dynamics in Extended General Relativity with Perturbatively and Tensorially Structured Conformal MetricBased on the conventional metric tensor and driven by a nearly constant energy density, cosmic inflation, characterized by a remarkably accelerated expansion, was proposed as an early epoch in the…Swapnil K. Singh, Saleh O. Allehabi, Azzah A. Alshehri et al.·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Dyonic Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes from warped extra dimensionsWe investigate traversable wormhole solutions within a four-dimensional effective theory derived from a five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons action with a non-minimally coupled scalar…Francisco S. N. Lobo, Miguel A. S. Pinto, Manuel E. Rodrigues·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Relational quantum dynamics of the black hole interior: singularity resolution and quantum bounceWe study the interior of the Schwarzschild black hole which is isometric to the Kantowski-Sachs cosmological model, using a fully relational and gauge-invariant quantization framework. The physical…Paolo Fragolino, Saeed Rastgoo·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
On the formulations of the Fermat principle in general relativity and beyondThis paper presents a survey of the Fermat principle within the framework of general relativity, tracing its evolution from classical optics to its modern variational formulation in Lorentzian…Erasmo Caponio, Miguel Angel Javaloyes·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Constraints on Einstein-aether gravity from the precision timing of PSR J1738+0333We constrain Einstein-aether gravity -- a Lorentz-violating extension of General Relativity in which a dynamical, unit timelike vector field selects a preferred frame -- using updated high-precision…Massimo Vaglio, Amodio Carleo, Abhimanyu Susobhanan et al.·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
A note on methods for computing the critical curve of Kerr-like black holesThis study systematically compares Bardeen's, de Vries's, and Grenzebach et al.'s celestial coordinate definitions of the critical curve ("shadow") of Kerr-like black holes. We…Siddharth Kumar Sahoo, Indrani Banerjee·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Feasible Stellar Interiors Beyond Einstein Gravity: Insights from Non-Metricity-Matter Coupled Gravitational TheoryThis manuscript examines viability and stability of anisotropic compact objects in the framework of f(Q,Lm) gravity (Q is the non-metricity and Lm is the matter Lagrangian). We assume a…M. Sharif, M. Zeeshan Gul, Adeeba Arooj·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Gravitational Waves from a Black Hole Falling Radially into a Thin-Shell Traversable WormholeWe compute the gravitational-wave signal generated by the radial infall of a stellar-mass black hole into a thin-shell Schwarzschild traversable wormhole. Modeling the black hole as a test particle,…Mohammad Nosherwan Malik, James B. Dent, William E. Gabella et al.·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Thermodynamics and information recovery of Schwarzschild AdS black holes in conformal Killing gravityWe study Schwarzschild AdS black holes in conformal Killing gravity, focusing on their thermodynamics and information recovery via the island formula. Treating the cosmological constant as pressure…Yahya Ladghami, Brahim Asfour, Francisco S. N. Lobo et al.·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Scalar emission from binary neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories with kinetic screeningWe investigate the scalar emission from binary neutron stars in shift-symmetric scalar-tensor theories with kinetic screening (K-essence), using 3+1 numerical simulations in the decoupling limit.…Ramiro Cayuso, Adrien Kuntz, Thiago Assumpcao et al.·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Series solutions to the TOV equationsWe present general series solutions to the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for compact stellar objects. We develop an algorithm to compute the coefficients of the power series in terms of the…Paulo Luz·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Nonperturbative Danielson-Satishchandran-Wald Decoherence with Unruh-DeWitt detectorsRecently, Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald (DSW) have proposed a novel source of decoherence for uniformly accelerated charges and masses in spatial superposition in spacetimes containing a…Levy B. N. Batista, André G. S. Landulfo, Robert B. Mann et al.·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Entanglement probes of gravitational Kaluza-Klein spectra: signal hierarchy and model discriminationQuantum-gravity-induced entanglement of masses (QGEM) provides a phase-sensitive probe of extra-dimensional corrections to the Newtonian potential at submillimeter separations. We compare three…Yi Zhong, Tao-Tao Sui, Ke Yang·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Dynamical tidal Love numbers of black holes under generic perturbations: Connecting black hole perturbation theory with effective field theoryThe foundation for modeling the coupling of the internal structure of compact objects in binary systems to their dynamics and emitted gravitational waves is a systematic effective field theory (EFT)…Sumanta Chakraborty, M. V. S Saketh, Tanja Hinderer et al.·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Non-Supersymmetric Baryogenesis from U(1)-Breaking Scalar DynamicsWe present a non-supersymmetric mechanism for baryogenesis driven by the nonlinear dynamics of a complex scalar field with generalized self-interaction potentials that explicitly break the global…Surendra Kumar Gour, Malay K. Nandy·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Causality and its violation in f(R,Lm,ϕ,gμν∇μϕ∇νϕ) gravityA modified gravitational model whose action is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar, the matter Lagrangian density, a scalar field, and its kinetic term is investigated as an extension…L. A. S. Evangelista, M. L. R. Silva, J. V. Moretti et al.·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Time-slicing quantum spacetimesFor quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, a critical role is played by their foliation into spacelike time-slices at each value t of a coordinate time, with corresponding metric in ADM form.…Shahn Majid·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Generalized First Law and Smarr Formula: Beyond Additivity and ExtensivityThe study of black hole thermodynamics becomes a central topic in gravitational physics, where the first law and the Smarr relation establish a deep connection between spacetime geometry and…Usman Zafar, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Kazuharu Bamba·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Stochastic Inflation in Numerical RelativityA set of 3+1 equations for stochastic inflation incorporating all metric and scalar matter degrees of freedom, first presented in previous work, are re-derived in a gauge invariant manner. We then…Yoann L. Launay, Gerasimos I. Rigopoulos, E. Paul S. Shellard·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Cosmology of fractional gravityThis is a first study of the cosmology of classical fractional gravity, a nonlocal proposal endowed with self-adjoint fractional d'Alembertian operators which serves as the basis for an…Iván Salvador-García, Gianluca Calcagni·Apr 30, 2026SaveLearn