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Publications (100)

hep-th2001

Cosmic optical activity from an inhomogeneous Kalb-Ramond field

Sayan Kar, Parthasarathi Majumdar, Soumitra SenGupta +1

The effects of introducing a harmonic spatial inhomogeneity into the Kalb-Ramond field, interacting with the Maxwell field according to a `string-inspired' proposal made in earlier…

physics.class-ph2007

Kinematics of deformable media

Anirvan Dasgupta, Hemwati Nandan, Sayan Kar

We investigate the kinematics of deformations in two and three dimensional media by explicitly solving (analytically) the evolution equations (Raychaudhuri equations) for the expan…

gr-qc2017

Born-Infeld gravity with a Brans-Dicke scalar

Soumya Jana, Sayan Kar

Recently proposed Born-Infeld (BI) theories of gravity assume a constant BI parameter (). However, no clear consensus exists on the sign and value of . Recalling the Brans-…

gr-qc2026

Quasinormal spectra of a wormhole family: overtone features and a parameter-controlled redshift

Abhisek Barman Maji, Sayan Kar

Though investigated extensively in the past, we take a detailed relook at the study of quasinormal modes (QNM) in a known family of wormholes (ultrastatic (), as well as…

hep-th2004

Bulk phantom fields, increasing warp factors and fermion localisation

Ratna Koley, Sayan Kar

A bulk phantom scalar field (with negative kinetic energy) in a sine--Gordon type potential is used to generate an exact thick brane solution with an increasing warp factor. It is…

gr-qc2022

A simple analytic example of the gravitational wave memory effect

Indranil Chakraborty, Sayan Kar

We report an analytical example of the gravitational wave memory effect in exact plane wave spacetimes. A square pulse profile is chosen which gives rise to a curved wave region sa…

hep-th1996

Scale Factor Duality and the Energy Condition Inequalities

Sayan Kar

We demonstrate, by a simple analysis, that cosmological line elements related by scale factor duality also exhibit a duality with respect to the conservation/violation of the Weak…

physics.class-ph2025

Pulse-induced memory-like effect in cyclotron motion?

Sayan Kar

We study how a charged particle moving in a uniform magnetic field along its standard circular path (cyclotron motion) reacts to a short-duration, homogeneous, uniform electric fie…

hep-th2013

Radion stability and induced, on-brane geometries in an effective scalar-tensor theory of gravity

Sayan Kar, Sayantani Lahiri, Soumitra SenGupta

About a decade ago, using a specific expansion scheme, effective, on-brane scalar tensor theories of gravity were proposed by Kanno and Soda (Phys.Rev. {\bf D 66} 083506 ,(2002)) i…

astro-ph2005

Cosmology with decaying tachyon matter

A. Das, Shashikant Gupta, Tarun Deep Saini +1

We investigate the case of a homogeneous tachyon field coupled to gravity in a spatially flat Friedman-Robertson-Walker spacetime. Assuming the field evolution to be exponentially…

gr-qc2020

Revisiting a family of wormholes: geometry, matter, scalar quasinormal modes and echoes

Poulami Dutta Roy, S. Aneesh, Sayan Kar

We revisit a family of ultra-static Lorentzian wormholes which includes Ellis-Bronnikov spacetime as a special case. We first show how the required total matter stress energy (whic…

gr-qc2015

Evolution of geodesic congruences in a gravitationally collapsing scalar field background

Rajibul Shaikh, Sayan Kar, Anirvan DasGupta

The evolution of timelike geodesic congruences in a spherically symmetric, nonstatic, inhomogeneous spacetime representing gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field is stud…

hep-th2008

Particle creation in the presence of a warped extra dimension

Suman Ghosh, Sayan Kar

Particle creation in spacetimes with a warped extra dimension is studied. In particular, we investigate the dynamics of a conformally coupled, massless scalar field in a five dimen…

gr-qc2013

Three dimensional Eddington--inspired Born--Infeld gravity: solutions

Soumya Jana, Sayan Kar

Three dimensional Eddington-inspired Born--Infeld gravity is studied with the goal of finding new solutions. Beginning with cosmology, we obtain analytical and numerical solutions…

gr-qc2016

Born-Infeld cosmology with scalar Born-Infeld matter

Soumya Jana, Sayan Kar

Cosmology in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity is investigated using a scalar Born-Infeld field (e.g. tachyon condensate) as matter. In this way, both in the gravity and matte…

physics.optics2006

Probing liquid surface waves, liquid properties and liquid films with light diffraction

Tarun Kr. Barik, Partha Roy Chaudhuri, Anushree Roy +1

Surface waves on liquids act as a dynamical phase grating for incident light. In this article, we revisit the classical method of probing such waves (wavelengths of the order of mm…

gr-qc2024

Shadows of a generic class of spherically symmetric, static spacetimes

Md. Golam Mafuz, Rishank Diwan, Soumya Jana +1

We explore the characteristics of shadows for a general class of spherically symmetric, static spacetimes, which may arise in general relativity or in modified theories of gravity.…

gr-qc2009

Confinement of test particles in warped spacetimes

Suman Ghosh, Hemwati Nandan, Sayan Kar

We investigate test particle trajectories in warped spacetimes with a thick brane warp factor, a cosmological on--brane line element and a time dependent extra dimension. The geode…

hep-th2010

On higher order geometric and renormalisation group flows

Kartik Prabhu, Sanjit Das, Sayan Kar

Renormalisation group flows of the bosonic nonlinear σ-model are governed, perturbatively, at different orders of α', by the perturbatively evaluated β--functions. In regions wh…

gr-qc2008

Gravitational lensing in braneworld gravity: formalism and applications

Supratik Pal, Sayan Kar

In this article, we develop a formalism which is different from the standard lensing scenario and is necessary for understanding lensing by gravitational fields which arise as solu…

gr-qc2024

Novel regular black holes: geometry, source and shadow

Anjan Kar, Sayan Kar

We propose a two-parameter, static and spherically symmetric regular geometry, which, for specific parameter values represents a regular black hole. The matter required to support…

hep-th2009

Stable two--brane models with bulk tachyon matter

A. Das, Sayan Kar, Soumitra SenGupta

We explore the possibility of constructing stable, warped two--brane models which solve the hierarchy problem, with a bulk non--canonical scalar field (tachyon matter) as the sourc…

astro-ph2003

Modelling galaxy halos using dark matter with pressure

Somnath Bharadwaj, Sayan Kar

We investigate whether a dark matter with substantial amounts of pressure, comparable in magnitude to the energy density, could be a viable candidate for the constituent of dark ma…

hep-th2017

Perturbations of spiky strings in flat spacetimes

Soumya Bhattacharya, Sayan Kar, Kamal L. Panigrahi

Perturbations of a class of semiclassical strings known today as spiky strings, are studied using the well-known Jacobi equations for small normal deformations of an embedded timel…

hep-th2006

Geometry of deformations of branes in warped backgrounds

Supratik Pal, Sayan Kar

The `braneworld' (described by the usual worldvolume action) is a D dimensional timelike surface embedded in a N dimensional () warped, nonfactorisable spacetime. We first add…

hep-th2002

Static spherisymmetric solutions, gravitational lensing and perihelion precession in Einstein--Kalb--Ramond theory

Sayan Kar, Soumitra SenGupta, Saurabh Sur

Static, spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein--Kalb--Ramond (KR) field equations are obtained. Besides an earlier known exact solution, we also find an approximate, asymp…

hep-th2018

Perturbations of spiky strings in AdS3

Soumya Bhattacharya, Sayan Kar, Kamal L. Panigrahi

Perturbations of a class of semiclassical spiky strings in three dimensional Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, are investigated using the well-known Jacobi equations for small, norma…

hep-th1997

A note on the Einstein equation in string theory

Sayan Kar

We show, using purely classical considerations and logical extrapolation of results belonging to point particle theories, that the metric background field in which a string propaga…

hep-th2005

A novel braneworld model with a bulk scalar field

Ratna Koley, Sayan Kar

We consider a new braneworld model with a bulk scalar field coupled to gravity. The bulk scalar action is inspired by the proposed low energy effective action around the tachyon va…

gr-qc2009

Bulk spacetimes for cosmological braneworlds with a time--dependent extra dimension

Suman Ghosh, Sayan Kar

We explore the possibilities of constructing bulk spacetimes in five dimensions for warped braneworld models with a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) line element on…

gr-qc1995

STRINGS IN A WORMHOLE BACKGROUND

Sayan Kar

Exact solutions of the string equations of motion in a specific Lorentzian wormhole background are obtained. These include both closed and open string configurations. Perturbations…

gr-qc2025

A note on the Penrose process in rotating regular black holes

Anjan Kar, Ayan Dey, Sayan Kar

We investigate the Penrose process of energy extraction in the context of rotating regular black holes. For the Neves-Saa class of regular black hole solutions, which includes the…

hep-th2002

A simple mechanical analog of the field theory of tachyon matter

Sayan Kar

In this brief note we show that the zero dimensional version of the field theory of tachyon matter proposed by Sen, provides an action integral formulation for the motion of a part…

gr-qc2026

Displacement memory in regular black hole spacetimes

Ritwik Acharyya, Sayan Kar

Displacement memory, induced by a wave pulse in a regular black hole spacetime, is studied using geodesic (timelike) separation and geodesic deviation. The presence of the wave pul…

gr-qc2024

Closed strings in a class of pp-wave spacetimes and the memory effect

Ayan Dey, Sayan Kar

We study closed string evolution in the pp-wave spacetime assuming different pulse shapes (square and sech-squared) in the exact gravitational wave metric. It is shown that the sha…

gr-qc2025

Diverse regular spacetimes using a parametrised density profile

Anjan Kar, Sayan Kar

We explore the construction of diverse regular spacetimes (black holes and defects) in General Relativity (GR) using a generic parametrised density profile (the Dekel-Zhao profile)…

hep-th1997

Focusing of timelike worldsheets in a theory of strings

Sayan Kar

An analysis of the generalised Raychaudhuri equations for string world sheets is shown to lead to the notion of focusing of timelike worldsheets in the classical Nambu-Goto theory…

gr-qc2004

Quantifying energy condition violations in traversable wormholes

Sayan Kar, Naresh Dadhich, Matt Visser

The `theoretical' existence of traversable Lorentzian wormholes in the classical, macroscopic world is plagued by the violation of the well--known energy conditions of General Rela…

hep-th2004

Scalar kinks and fermion localisation in warped spacetimes

Ratna Koley, Sayan Kar

Scalar kinks propagating along the bulk in warped spacetimes provide a thick brane realisation of the braneworld. We consider here, a class of such exact solutions of the full Eins…

quant-ph2006

Path integrals and wavepacket evolution for damped mechanical systems

Dharmesh Jain, A. Das, Sayan Kar

Damped mechanical systems with various forms of damping are quantized using the path integral formalism. In particular, we obtain the path integral kernel for the linearly damped h…

astro-ph2005

Can the rotation of the dark matter halo of our galaxy be detected through its effect on the cosmic microwave background polarisation?

Partha Nag, Somnath Bharadwaj, Sayan Kar

The proposition that dark matter halos possess angular momentum, though widely accepted, is a theoretical prediction which has, till date, not been observationally verified. The gr…

gr-qc2021

A wormhole geometry from gravitational collapse

Soumya Chakrabarti, Sayan Kar

We discuss a proposal on how gravitational collapse of a NEC (Null Energy Condition) violating spherically symmetric fluid distribution can avoid the formation of a zero proper vol…

gr-qc2001

R=0 spacetimes and self-dual Lorentzian wormholes

Naresh Dadhich, Sayan Kar, Sailajananda Mukherji +1

A two-parameter family of spherically symmetric, static Lorentzian wormholes is obtained as the general solution of the equation , where , $ρ_t = (T_…

hep-th1995

Schild's Null Strings in Flat and Curved Backgrounds

Sayan Kar

Schild's null (tensionless) strings are discussed in certain flat and curved backgrounds. We find closed, stationary, null strings as natural configurations existing on the horizon…

hep-th1997

Exact solutions in two-dimensional string cosmology with back reaction

Sukanta Bose, Sayan Kar

We present analytic cosmological solutions in a model of two-dimensional dilaton gravity with back reaction. One of these solutions exhibits a graceful exit from the inflationary t…

gr-qc2026

Gravitational wave radiation from periodic orbits in regular black holes

Rishav Agrawal, Anjan Kar, Soumya Jana +1

Gravitational wave radiation from periodic orbits in some standard regular black hole spacetimes is studied, primarily using known methods (numerical and analytic). We demonstrate…

gr-qc2022

Wormholes with a warped extra dimension?

Sayan Kar

We investigate the role of a specifically warped extra dimension in constructing examples of higher dimensional spacetimes representing Lorentzian wormholes. The warping chosen is…

gr-qc2007

Focusing of branes in warped backgrounds

Sayan Kar

Branes are embedded surfaces in a given background (bulk) spacetime. Assuming a warped bulk, we investigate, in analogy with the case for geodesics, the notion of {\em focusing} of…

quant-ph1999

Classical and quantum mechanics of a particle on a rotating loop

Sayan Kar, Avinash Khare

The toy model of a particle on a vertical rotating circle in the presence of uniform gravitational/ magnetic fields is explored in detail. After an analysis of the classical mechan…

gr-qc1995

The Generalised Raychaudhuri Equations : Examples

Sayan Kar

Specific examples of the generalized Raychaudhuri Equations for the evolution of deformations along families of dimensional surfaces embedded in a background dimensional sp…

gr-qc2022

Generalised Hayward spacetimes: Geometry, matter and scalar quasinormal modes

Poulami Dutta Roy, Sayan Kar

Bardeen's 1968 idea of a regular black hole spacetime was revived by Hayward in 2006 through the construction of a new example of such a geometry. Later it was realised by Neves an…

gr-qc2017

Gravitational lensing by scalar-tensor wormholes and the energy conditions

Rajibul Shaikh, Sayan Kar

We study gravitational lensing by a class of zero Ricci scalar wormholes which arise as solutions in a scalar-tensor theory of gravity. An attempt is made to find a possible link b…

gr-qc2003

Geodesics and geodesic deviation in a two-dimensional black hole

Ratna Koley, Supratik Pal, Sayan Kar

We introduce an exactly solvable example of timelike geodesic motion and geodesic deviation in the background geometry of a well-known two-dimensional black hole spacetime. The eff…

gr-qc2009

Ricci flow of unwarped and warped product manifolds

Sanjit Das, Kartik Prabhu, Sayan Kar

We analyse Ricci flow (normalised/un-normalised) of product manifolds --unwarped as well as warped, through a study of generic examples. First, we investigate such flows for the un…

hep-th1996

Generalised Raychaudhuri Equations for Strings and Membranes

Sayan Kar

A recent generalisation of the Raychaudhuri equations for timelike geodesic congruences to families of dimensional extremal, timelike, Nambu--Goto surfaces embedded in an d…

gr-qc2011

Geodesic congruences in warped spacetimes

Suman Ghosh, Anirvan Dasgupta, Sayan Kar

In this article, we explore the kinematics of timelike geodesic congruences in warped five dimensional bulk spacetimes, with and without thick or thin branes. Beginning with geodes…

gr-qc2018

Gravitational waves from quasinormal modes of a class of Lorentzian wormholes

S. Aneesh, Sukanta Bose, Sayan Kar

Quasinormal modes of a two-parameter family of Lorentzian wormhole spacetimes, which arise as solutions in a specific scalar-tensor theory associated with braneworld gravity, are o…

gr-qc2003

Traversable wormholes with arbitrarily small energy condition violations

Matt Visser, Sayan Kar, Naresh Dadhich

Traversable wormholes necessarily require violations of the averaged null energy condition; this being the definition of ``exotic matter''. However, the theorems which guarantee th…

gr-qc2023

Shadows in dyonic Kerr-Sen black holes

Soumya Jana, Sayan Kar

Black holes with dyonic charges in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion supergravity theory are revisited in the context of black hole shadows. We consider static as well as rotating (na…

gr-qc2002

Asymmetrically warped R=0 braneworlds

Sayan Kar

A new family of five dimensional, R=0 braneworlds with asymmetric warp factors is proposed. Beginning with the invariance of the Ricci scalar for the general class of asymmetricall…

gr-qc2023

Modelling Einstein cluster using Einasto profile

Ritwik Acharyya, Pritam Banerjee, Sayan Kar

We demonstrate a general relativistic approach to model dark matter halos using the Einstein cluster, with the matter stress-energy generated by collisionless particles moving on c…

gr-qc2012

Bach flows of product manifolds

Sanjit Das, Sayan Kar

We investigate various aspects of a geometric flow defined using the Bach tensor. Firstly, using a well-known split of the Bach tensor components for unwarped product manif…

hep-th2001

The geometry of RG flows in theory space

Sayan Kar

Renormalisation Group (RG) flows in theory space (the space of couplings) are generated by a vector field -- the function. Using a specific metric ansatz in theory space and c…

quant-ph2021

Smooth double barriers in quantum mechanics

Avik Dutt, Sayan Kar

Quantum mechanical tunneling across smooth double barrier potentials modeled using Gaussian functions, is analyzed numerically and by using the WKB approximation. The transmission…

hep-th2006

Braneworlds in six dimensions: new models with bulk scalars

Ratna Koley, Sayan Kar

Six dimensional bulk spacetimes with 3-- and 4--branes are constructed using certain non--conventional bulk scalars as sources. In particular, we investigate the consequences of ha…

hep-th1999

New classes of black hole spacetimes in 2+1 gravity

Sukanta Bose, Naresh Dadhich, Sayan Kar

The electrogravity transformation is applied to the three-dimensional Einstein field equations to obtain new multi-parameter families of black hole solutions. The Bañados-Teitelbo…

gr-qc2004

Can extra dimensional effects replace dark matter ?

Supratik Pal, Somnath Bharadwaj, Sayan Kar

In the braneworld scenario, the four dimensional effective Einstein equation has extra terms which arise from the embedding of the 3-brane in the bulk. We show that in this modifie…

gr-qc1995

Evolving Lorentzian Wormholes

Sayan Kar, Deshdeep Sahdev

Evolving Lorentzian wormholes with the required matter satisfying the Energy conditions are discussed. Several different scale factors are used and the corresponding consequences d…

gr-qc2006

The Raychaudhuri equations: a brief review

Sayan Kar, Soumitra SenGupta

We present a brief review on the Raychaudhuri equations. Beginning with a summary of the essential features of the original article by Raychaudhuri and subsequent work of numerous…

gr-qc2016

Wormholes, the weak energy condition, and scalar-tensor gravity

Rajibul Shaikh, Sayan Kar

We obtain a large class of Lorentzian wormhole spacetimes in scalar-tensor gravity, for which the matter stress energy does satisfy the weak energy condition. Our constructions hav…

gr-qc2015

Born-Infeld gravity coupled to Born-Infeld electrodynamics

Soumya Jana, Sayan Kar

We investigate spherically symmetric, static spacetimes in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity coupled to Born-Infeld electrodynamics. The two constants, and which pa…

math.DG2012

Higher order geometric flows on three dimensional locally homogeneous spaces

Sanjit Das, Kartik Prabhu, Sayan Kar

We analyse second order (in Riemann curvature) geometric flows (un-normalised) on locally homogeneous three manifolds and look for specific features through the solutions (analytic…

hep-th1997

Stringy black holes and energy conditions

Sayan Kar

The energy condition inequalities for the matter stress energy comprised out of the dilaton and Maxwell fields in the dilaton-Maxwell gravity theories emerging out of string theory…

gr-qc2015

Can extra dimensional effects allow wormholes without exotic matter?

Sayan Kar, Sayantani Lahiri, Soumitra SenGupta

We explore the existence of Lorentzian wormholes in the context of an effective on-brane, scalar-tensor theory of gravity. In such theories, the timelike convergence condition, whi…

gr-qc2000

Does a Kalb-Ramond field make spacetime optically active

Sayan Kar, Parthasarathi Majumdar, Soumitra Sengupta +1

A spacetime with torsion produced by a Kalb-Ramond field coupled gravitationally to the Maxwell field, in accordance with a recent proposal by two of us (PM and SS), is argued to l…

hep-th2008

de Sitter branes with a bulk scalar

Supratik Pal, Sayan Kar

We propose new braneworld models arising from a scalar field in the bulk. In these examples, the induced on--brane line element is de Sitter (or anti de Sitter) and the bulk (five…

quant-ph2006

Exact bound states in volcano potentials

Ratna Koley, Sayan Kar

Quantum mechanics in a one--parameter family of volcano potentials is investigated. After a discussion on their construction and classical mechanics, we obtain exact, normalisable…

hep-th1998

Naked singularities in low energy, effective string theory

Sayan Kar

Solutions to the equations of motion of the low energy, effective field theory emerging out of compactified heterotic string theory are constructed by making use of the well-known…

physics.optics2004

Diffraction of light by interfering liquid surface waves

Tarun Kr. Barik, Anushree Roy, Sayan Kar

Interfering liquid surface waves are generated by electrically driven vertical oscillations of two or more equispaced pins immersed in a liquid (water). The corresponding intensity…

hep-th1996

Generalised Raychaudhuri equations for strings in the presence of an antisymmetric tensor field

Sayan Kar

The generalised Raychaudhuri equations derived by Capovilla and Guven are exclusively for extremal, timelike Nambu--Goto membranes. In this article, we construct the corresponding…

hep-th2002

Geometry of theory space and RG flows

Sayan Kar

The space of couplings of a given theory is the arena of interest in this article. Equipped with a metric ansatz akin to the Fisher information matrix in the space of parameters in…

gr-qc2020

Geodesic congruences in exact plane wave spacetimes and the memory effect

Indranil Chakraborty, Sayan Kar

Displacement and velocity memory effects in the exact, vacuum, plane gravitational wave line element have been studied recently by looking at the behaviour of pairs of geodesics or…

hep-th2021

A new model with solitary waves: solution, stability and quasinormal modes

Surajit Basak, Poulami Dutta Roy, Sayan Kar

We construct solitary wave solutions in a dimensional massless scalar () field theory with a specially chosen potential . The equation governing perturbations abou…

hep-th2021

Perturbations of giant magnons and single spikes in

Soumya Bhattacharya, Sayan Kar, Kamal L. Panigrahi

Perturbations of giant magnons and single spikes in a dimensional background spacetime are analysed. Using the form of the giant magnon solution in the…

gr-qc2012

Geodesic flows in rotating black hole backgrounds

Anirvan DasGupta, Hemwati Nandan, Sayan Kar

We study the kinematics of timelike geodesic congruences, in the spacetime geometry of rotating black holes in three (the BTZ) and four (the Kerr) dimensions. The evolution (Raycha…

gr-qc2021

Kundt geometries and memory effects in the Brans-Dicke theory of gravity

Siddhant Siddhant, Indranil Chakraborty, Sayan Kar

Memory effects are studied in the simplest scalar-tensor theory, the Brans--Dicke (BD) theory. To this end, we introduce, in BD theory, novel Kundt spacetimes (without and with gyr…

hep-th2015

A note on spherically symmetric, static spacetimes in Kanno-Soda on-brane gravity

Sayan Kar, Sayantani Lahiri, Soumitra SenGupta

Spherically symmetric, static on-brane geometries in the Kanno-Soda (KS) effective scalar-tensor theory of on-brane gravity are discussed. In order to avoid brane collisions and/or…

gr-qc2022

Analog Raychaudhuri equation in mechanics

Rajendra Prasad Bhatt, Anushree Roy, Sayan Kar

Usually, in mechanics, we obtain the trajectory of a particle in a given force field by solving Newton's second law with chosen initial conditions. In contrast, through our work he…

gr-qc2020

Memory effects in Kundt wave spacetimes

Indranil Chakraborty, Sayan Kar

Memory effects in the exact Kundt wave spacetimes are shown to arise in the behaviour of geodesics in such spacetimes. The types of Kundt spacetimes we consider here are direct pro…

quant-ph2007

Can degenerate bound states occur in one dimensional quantum mechanics?

Sayan Kar, Rajesh R. Parwani

We point out that bound states, degenerate in energy but differing in parity, may form in one dimensional quantum systems even if the potential is non-singular in any finite domain…

gr-qc2025

New rotating Lorentzian wormhole spacetime

Anjan Kar, Soumya Jana, Sayan Kar

A rotating version of a known static, spherically symmetric, zero Ricci scalar Lorentzian wormhole is constructed. It turns out that for this given non-rotating geometry, the stand…

quant-ph2012

Splitting of degenerate states in one-dimensional quantum mechanics

Avik Dutt, Trisha Nath, Sayan Kar +1

A classic no-go theorem in one-dimensional quantum mechanics can be evaded when the potentials are unbounded below, thus allowing for novel parity-paired degenerate energy bound st…

gr-qc2005

The Ellis wormhole with `tachyon matter'

A. Das, Sayan Kar

The Ellis wormhole is known to be an exact solution of the Einstein--scalar system where the scalar field has negative kinetic energy (phantom). We show here that the same geometry…

hep-th1997

Planetoid strings : solutions and perturbations

Sayan Kar, Swapna Mahapatra

A novel ansatz for solving the string equations of motion and constraints in generic curved backgrounds, namely the planetoid ansatz, was proposed recently by some authors. We cons…

gr-qc2019

Quasi-normal modes in a symmetric triangular barrier

Poulami Dutta Roy, Jagannath Das, Sayan Kar

Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of the massless scalar wave in dimensions are obtained for a symmetric, finite, triangular barrier potential. This problem is exactly solvable, with…

gr-qc2014

Kinematics of trajectories in classical mechanics

Rajibul Shaikh, Sayan Kar, Anirvan DasGupta

In this paper, we show how the study of kinematics of a family of trajectories of a classical mechanical system may be unified within the framework of analysis of geodesic flows in…

physics.class-ph2012

Perturbative stability of catenoidal soap films

Soumya Jana, Sayan Kar

The perturbative stability of catenoidal soap films formed between parallel, equal radii, coaxial rings is studied using analytical and semi-analytical methods. Using a theorem on…

physics.class-ph2010

Kinematics of flows on curved, deformable media

Anirvan Dasgupta, Hemwati Nandan, Sayan Kar

In this article, we first investigate the kinematics of specific geodesic flows on two dimensional media with constant curvature, by explicitly solving the evolution (Raychaudhuri)…

gr-qc2009

Kinematics of geodesic flows in stringy black hole backgrounds

Anirvan Dasgupta, Hemwati Nandan, Sayan Kar

We study the kinematics of timelike geodesic congruences in two and four dimensions in spacetime geometries representing stringy black holes. The Raychaudhuri equations for the kin…

gr-qc2022

A curious variant of Bronnikov-Ellis spacetime

Sayan Kar

We explore a curious but simple variant of the Bronnikov-Ellis (BE) wormhole spacetime with a specific `red-shift function' (i.e. ) in the line element. The matter required…