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gr-qc2015★ 21 cited

Weyl gravity and Cartan geometry

Jeremy Attard, Jordan François, Serge Lazzarini

We point out that the Cartan geometry known as the second-order conformal structure provides a natural differential geometric framework underlying gauge theories of conformal gravi…

gr-qc2015★ 64 cited

Improved Black Hole Fireworks: Asymmetric Black-Hole-to-White-Hole Tunneling Scenario

Tommaso De Lorenzo, Alejandro Perez

A new scenario for gravitational collapse has been recently proposed by Haggard and Rovelli. Presenting the model under the name of black hole fireworks, they claim that the accumu…

gr-qc2015★ 13 cited

The Archimedes experiment

Enrico Calloni, S. Caprara, Martina De Laurentis +14

Archimedes is an INFN-funded pathfinder experiment aimed at verifying the feasibility of measuring the interaction of vacuum fluctuations with gravity. The final experiment will me…

gr-qc2015★ 13 cited

Polchinski's exact renormalisation group for tensorial theories: Gaussian universality and power counting

Thomas Krajewski, Reiko Toriumi

In this paper, we use the exact renormalisation in the context of tensor models and tensorial group field theories. As a byproduct, we rederive Gaussian universality for random ten…

gr-qc2015★ 15 cited

Minimal cosmography

Federico Piazza, Thomas Schucker

The minimal requirement for cosmography - a nondynamical description of the universe - is a prescription for calculating null geodesics, and timelike geodesics as a function of the…

gr-qc2015★ 36 cited

Non-singular rotating black hole with a time delay in the center

Tommaso De Lorenzo, Andrea Giusti, Simone Speziale

As proposed by Bambi and Modesto, rotating non-singular black holes can be constructed via the Newman-Janis algorithm. Here we show that if one starts with a modified Hayward black…

gr-qc2015★ 22 cited

Cascading dust inflation in Born-Infeld gravity

Jose Beltran Jimenez, Lavinia Heisenberg, Gonzalo J. Olmo +1

In the framework of Born-Infeld inspired gravity theories, which deviates from General Relativity (GR) in the high curvature regime, we discuss the viability of Cosmic Inflation wi…

gr-qc2015★ 100 cited

Spacetimes with vector distortion: Inflation from generalised Weyl geometry

Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Tomi S. Koivisto

Spacetime with general linear vector distortion is introduced. Thus, the torsion and the nonmetricity of the affine connection are assumed to be proportional to a vector field (and…

gr-qc2015★ 12 cited

Distinguishing f(R) theories from general relativity by gravitational lensing effect

Hongguang Liu, Xin Wang, Haida Li +1

The post-Newtonian formulation of a general class of f(R) theories is set up to 3rd order approximation. It turns out that the information of a specific form of f(R) gravity is enc…

gr-qc2015★ 131 cited

Piercing the Vainshtein screen with anomalous gravitational wave speed: Constraints on modified gravity from binary pulsars

Jose Beltran Jimenez, Federico Piazza, Hermano Velten

By using observations of the Hulse-Taylor pulsar we constrain the gravitational wave (GW) speed to the level of . We apply this result to scalar-tensor theories that gener…

gr-qc2015

Group field theories generating polyhedral complexes

Johannes Thürigen

Group field theories are a generalization of matrix models which provide both a second quantized reformulation of loop quantum gravity as well as generating functions for spin foam…

gr-qc2015★ 161 cited

Neutron Stars in Rastall Gravity

A. M. Oliveira, H. E. S. Velten, J. C. Fabris +1

We calculate static and spherically symmetric solutions for the Rastall modification of gravity to describe Neutron Stars (NS). The key feature of the Rastall gravity is the non-co…

gr-qc2015★ 21 cited

Black hole spectroscopy from Loop Quantum Gravity models

Aurelien Barrau, Xiangyu Cao, Karim Noui +1

Using Monte Carlo simulations, we compute the integrated emission spectra of black holes in the framework of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). The black hole emission rates are governed…

gr-qc2015★ 21 cited

Tensor perturbations in a general class of Palatini theories

Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Lavinia Heisenberg, Gonzalo J. Olmo

We study a general class of gravitational theories formulated in the Palatini approach and derive the equations governing the evolution of tensor perturbations. In the absence of t…

gr-qc2015

Curvatures and discrete Gauss-Codazzi equation in (2+1)-dimensional loop quantum gravity

Seramika Ariwahjoedi, Jusak Sali Kosasih, Carlo Rovelli +1

We derive the Gauss-Codazzi equation in the holonomy and plane-angle representations and we use the result to write a Gauss-Codazzi equation for a discrete (2+1)-dimensional manifo…

gr-qc2015★ 19 cited

Statistical mechanics of reparametrization-invariant systems. It takes three to tango

Goffredo Chirco, Thibaut Josset, Carlo Rovelli

It is notoriously difficult to apply statistical mechanics to generally covariant systems, because the notions of time, energy and equilibrium are seriously modified in this contex…

gr-qc2015★ 40 cited

Compact phase space, cosmological constant, discrete time

Carlo Rovelli, Francesca Vidotto

We study the quantization of geometry in the presence of a cosmological constant, using a discretiza- tion with constant-curvature simplices. Phase space turns out to be compact an…