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Cosmological models can be studied effectively using dynamical systems techniques. Starting from Brown’s formulation of the variational principle for relativistic fluids, we introduce new types of couplings involving a perfect fluid, a scalar field, and boundary terms. We describe three different coupling models, one of which turns out to be particularly relevant for cosmology. Its behaviour is similar to that of models in which dark matter decays into dark energy. In particular, for a constant coupling, the model mimics well-known dynamical dark energy models while the non-constant couplings offer a rich dynamical structure, unseen before. We are able to achieve this richness whilst working in a two-dimensional phase space. This is a significant advantage which allows us to provide a clear physical interpretation of the key features and draw analogies with previously studied models.

In the present work, we study the scattering for a black hole described by the canonical acoustic metric with Lorentz violation using asymptotic and numerical methods. In this scenario, we also check the effects of quasinormal modes and the acoustic shadow radius. In the eikonal limit the relationship between the shadow radius and the real part of the quasinormal frequency is preserved.

We present the solution of the Einstein field equations, in the static and spherically symmetric case, for an incompressible fluid, that has constant proper energy density at each and every point of the volume where it exists, according to a set of local observers who are stationary with respect to the fluid at each point. In the general case the fluid exists within a spherically symmetric shell with an inner vacuum-matter interface at a radial position (r_{1}) and an outer matter-vacuum interface at a radial position (r_{2}) in the Schwarzschild coordinate system. Therefore, in the general case there is an inner vacuum region with a repulsive singularity at the origin, just like in all other similar shell solutions. We present the parameter plane of the problem, and show that there are limits of solutions that approach the configuration of black holes, with the formation of an event horizon at the radial position (r_{2}).

Beginning from the standard Arnowitt–Deser–Misner (ADM) formulation of general relativity we construct a tentative model of quantum gravity from the point of view of an observer with constant proper acceleration, just outside of a horizon of spacetime. In addition of producing the standard results of black-hole thermodynamics, our model makes an entirely new prediction that there is a certain upper bound for the energies of massive particles. For protons, for instance, this upper bound is around (1.1times 10^{21}) eV. The result is interesting, because this energy is roughly of the same order of magnitude as are the highest energies ever measured for protons in cosmic rays.

In this short note we investigate canonical formalism for General Relativity which is formulated with the metric (f^{ab}=(-g)^alpha g^{ab}). We find corresponding Hamiltonian and we show that constraint structure is the same as in the standard formulation. We also analyze another model when the spatial part of metric (h^{ij}) is related with the new one by relation (a^{ij}=(det h_{ij})^beta h^{ij}) and we argue that it corresponds to the gauge fixed version of the General Relativity formulated with the metric (f^{ab}=(-g)^alpha g^{ab}).

We consider two Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting with a massless, minimally coupled scalar field in a ((1+1)) dimensional Reissner-Nordström black hole spacetime. In particular, one of the detectors, corresponding to Alice, is moving along an outgoing null trajectory. While the other detector carried by Bob is static. With this set-up, we investigate the entangling condition and the measure of the entanglement, concurrence, in the nonextremal and extremal scenarios. Our observations suggest, as expected, a qualitative similarity in characteristics of the entanglement between these two scenarios. However, we find quantitative differences between the nonextremal and extremal concurrences for a broad range of black hole charges. With moderately large detector transition energy, the extremal background always accounts for the larger entanglement than the nonextremal one. In contrast, with low detector transition energy, entanglement on the nonextremal background can be greater. Therefore, by adjusting the detector transition energy, one can perceive optimum entanglement from either the extremal or the nonextremal background.

This paper discusses several functional analytic issues relevant for field theories in the context of the Hamiltonian formulation for a free, massless, scalar field defined on a closed interval of the real line. The fields that we use belong to a Sobolev space with a scalar product. As we show this choice is useful because it leads to an explicit representation of the points in the fibers of the phase space (the cotangent bundle of the configuration space). The dynamical role of the boundary of the spatial manifold where the fields are defined is analyzed.

In a recent series of papers new exact analytical interior spacetimes sourced by stationary rigidly rotating cylinders of fluids have been displayed. A fluid with an axially directed pressure has been first considered, then a perfect fluid, followed by a fluid with an azimuthally directed pressure, and, finally, by a fluid where the pressure is radially oriented. The perfect fluid configuration has subsequently been extended to the case of differential rotation. In the present paper, three different cases of anisotropic pressure analogous to those studied for rigidly rotating motion are considered in turn for differentially rotating fluids. General methods for generating mathematical solutions to the field equations and physically well-behaved examples are displayed for the axial and azimuthal pressure cases. As regards radial pressure fluids, four classes of solutions naturally emerge from the corresponding Einstein’s equations, among which one class, after being fully integrated, exhibits physically well-behaved solutions.

We outline the essential features of the adiabatic theory and demonstrate how test particle motion in general relativity may be investigated using it. The theory relies on adiabatic invariants and vector elements of the orbits. We derive a specific representation of the Kerr metric in harmonic coordinates, which enables us to obtain a general formula for the perihelion shift of test particles orbiting on the non-equatorial plane of a rotating central object. This proves the applicability of the adiabatic theory in Einstein’s gravity. We demonstrate that, for the individual effects of the gravitational source mass and angular momentum up to the second order, the principle of superposition is satisfied. We show that, in addition to its simplicity, the adiabatic theory produces correct results that, in the limiting cases, correspond to the ones reported in the literature.

This paper is a part of a series devoted to the Euclidean-hyperboloidal foliation method introduced by the authors for investigating the global existence problem associated with nonlinear systems of coupled wave-Klein–Gordon equations with small data. This method was developed especially for investigating the initial value problem for the Einstein-massive field system in wave gauge. Here, we study the (fourth-order) field equations of f(R) modified gravity and investigate the global dynamical behavior of the gravitational field in the near-Minkowski regime. We establish the existence of a globally hyperbolic Cauchy development approaching Minkowski spacetime (in spacelike, null, and timelike directions), when the initial data set is sufficiently close to an asymptotically Euclidean and spacelike hypersurface in Minkowski spacetime. We cast the (fourth-order) f(R)-field equations in the form of a second-order wave-Klein–Gordon system, which has an analogous structure to the Einstein-massive field system but, in addition, involves a (possibly small) effective mass parameter. We establish the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime in the context of f(R) gravity, when the integrand f(R) in the action functional can be taken to be arbitrarily close to the integrand R of the standard Hilbert–Einstein action.