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gr-qc2018★ 36 cited

Innermost stable circular orbits of charged spinning test particles

Ming Zhang, Wen-Biao Liu

The effects of a paritcle's spin and electric charge on its angular momentum, energy and radius on the innermost stable circular orbit are investigated based on the particle's equa…

gr-qc2018★ 19 cited

Thermodynamical stability of -AdS black holes in grand canonical ensemble

Ming Zhang

In this paper, -dimensional ( is a positive integer) -AdS black holes is divided into Schwazschild-AdS (SAdS) like ones and Reissner-Nordström-AdS (RN-AdS) like o…

gr-qc2018★ 14 cited

Photon sphere and phase transition of -dimensional () charged Gauss-Bonnet AdS black holes

Shan-Zhong Han, Jie Jiang, Ming Zhang +1

Motivated by recent work, nonmonotonic behaviours of photon sphere radius can be used to reflect black hole phase transition for Reissner-Nordstrm-AdS (RN-AdS) black hole…

gr-qc2018★ 535 cited

KAGRA: 2.5 Generation Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +188

The recent detections of gravitational waves (GWs) reported by LIGO/Virgo collaborations have made significant impact on physics and astronomy. A global network of GW detectors wil…

gr-qc2018★ 25 cited

The longlived charged massive scalar field in the higher-dimensional Reissner--Nordström spacetime

Ming Zhang, Jie Jiang, Zhen Zhong

The quasinormal resonance frequency of the higher-dimensional Reissner--Nordström (RN) black hole due to charged massive scalar field perturbation is deduced analytically in the ei…

gr-qc2018★ 81 cited

Hairy Schwarzschild-(A)dS black hole solutions in DHOST theories beyond shift symmetry

Jibril Ben Achour, Hongguang Liu

We derive the general conditions for a large family of shift symmetry breaking degenerate higher order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories to admit stealth black hole solutions. Such bl…

gr-qc2018★ 54 cited

Strong cosmic censorship for the massless Dirac field in the Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter spacetime

Boxuan Ge, Jie Jiang, Bin Wang +2

We present the Fermi story of strong cosmic censorship in the near-extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black hole. To this end, we first derive from scratch the criterion for the…

gr-qc2018★ 11 cited

Criticality in Gauged Supergravities

Shou-Long Li, Hong-Da Lyu, Hua-Kai Deng +1

AdS black holes show richer transition behaviors in extended phase space by assuming the cosmological constant and its conjugate quantity to behave like thermodynamic pressure and…

gr-qc2018★ 21 cited

Pre-inflationary dynamics of Starobinsky inflation and its generization in Loop Quantum Brans-Dicke Cosmology

Wei-Jian Jin, Yongge Ma, Tao Zhu

Recently, the nonperturbative quantization scheme of loop quantum gravity has been extended to the Brans-Dicke theory and the corresponding loop quantum Brans-Dicke cosmology has b…

gr-qc2018

Warm inflation with a generalized Langevin equation scenario

Xi-Bin Li, Shi-Wei Yan, He Wang +1

In this paper, we discuss the warm inflation model with both a Langevin equation and a generalized Langevin equation scenario. As a brief picture to illustrate the basic properties…

gr-qc2018★ 81 cited

Strong cosmic censorship for the massless charged scalar field in the Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter spacetime

Yuyu Mo, Yu Tian, Bin Wang +2

It has recently been shown that the strong cosmic censorship conjecture can be violated by the massless neutral scalar field in the nearly extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter bla…

gr-qc2018★ 29 cited

Polymer Quantum Cosmology: Lifting quantization ambiguities using a conformal symmetry

Jibril Ben Achour, Etera R. Livine

In this letter, we stress that the simplest cosmological model consisting in a massless scalar field minimally coupled to homogeneous and isotropic gravity has an in-built $\SL(2,\…

gr-qc2018★ 86 cited

Observational signature of near-extremal Kerr-like black holes in a modified gravity theory at the Event Horizon Telescope

Minyong Guo, Niels A. Obers, Haopeng Yan

We study the shadows cast by near-extremal Kerr-MOG black holes for different values of the parameter in modified gravity (MOG). In particular, we consider an isotropic emitter orb…

gr-qc2018★ 19 cited

Towards the self-adjointness of a Hamiltonian operator in loop quantum gravity

Cong Zhang, Jerzy Lewandowski, Yongge Ma

Although the physical Hamiltonian operator can be constructed in the deparameterized model of loop quantum gravity coupled to a scalar field, its property is still unknown. This op…

gr-qc2018★ 12 cited

Dynamic analysis of noncanonical warm inflation

Xi-Bin Li, Yang-Yang Wang, He Wang +1

We study and analyze the dynamic properties of both canonical and noncanonical warm inflationary models with dissipative effects. We consider different models of canonical warm inf…

gr-qc2018★ 14 cited

Perturbation spectra in the warm -inflation

Zhi-Peng Peng, Jia-Ning Yu, Xiao-Min Zhang +1

We investigate the cosmological perturbation theory and calculate the perturbation spectra in the warm -inflation. Unlike the scalar perturbations of -inflation in the cold i…

gr-qc2018★ 13 cited

Gravitational wave from warm inflation

Xi-Bin Li, He Wang, Jian-Yang Zhu

A fundamental prediction of inflation is a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of gravitational wave. The features of such a signal provide extremely important information about the ph…

gr-qc2018★ 7 cited

Two-field Warm Inflation and Its Scalar Perturbations on Large Scales

Yang-Yang Wang, Jian-Yang Zhu, Xiao-Min Zhang

We explore the homogeneous background dynamics and the evolution of generated perturbations of cosmological inflation that is driven by multiple scalar fields interacting with a pe…

gr-qc2018★ 10 cited

Relationship between Bondi-Sachs quantities and source of gravitational radiation in asymptotically de Sitter spacetime

Xiaokai He, Jiliang Jing, Zhoujian Cao

Gravitational radiation plays an important role in astrophysics. Based on the fact that our universe is expanding, the gravitational radiation when a positive cosmological constant…

gr-qc2018★ 6 cited

Hamiltonian structure and connection-dynamics of Weyl gravity

Qian Chen, Yongge Ma

A crucial property of Weyl gravity is its conformal invariance. It is shown how this gauge symmetry is exactly reflected by the two constraints in the Hamiltonian framework. Since…

gr-qc2018★ 20 cited

Entropy in the interior of a Kerr black hole

Xin-Yang Wang, Jie Jiang, Wen-Biao Liu

Christodoulou and Rovelli have shown that the maximal interior volume of a Schwarzschild black hole linearly grows with time. Recently, their conclusion has been extended to the Re…

gr-qc2018★ 91 cited

Polymer Schwarzschild black hole: An effective metric

Jibril Ben Achour, Frédéric Lamy, Hongguang Liu +1

We consider the modified Einstein equations obtained in the framework of effective spherically symmetric polymer models inspired by Loop Quantum Gravity. When one takes into accoun…

gr-qc2018★ 7 cited

BPS Kerr-AdS Time Machines

M. Cvetic, Wei-Jian Geng, H. Lu +1

It was recently observed that Kerr-AdS metrics with negative mass describe smooth spacetimes that have a region with naked closed time-like curves, bounded by a velocity of light s…

gr-qc2018★ 10 cited

Godel Metrics with Chronology Protection in Horndeski Gravities

Wei-Jian Geng, Shou-Long Li, H. Lu +1

Gödel universe, one of the most interesting exact solutions predicted by General Relativity, describes a homogeneous rotating universe containing naked closed time-like curves (CTC…