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most citedAccelerated Black Holes beyond Maxwell's Electrodynamics

74 citations · 356 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

gr-qc2026

From Accelerating Rotating Black Holes to a Swirling Universe

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna

We demonstrate that the swirling universe can be recovered through a coordinated horizon-degeneration and scaling procedure applied to the Kerr C-metric. The construction exploits…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

From Bertotti--Robinson to Vacuum: New Exact Solutions in General Relativity via Harrison and Inversion Symmetries

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, Amaro Díaz +1

We construct new vacuum solutions of the Einstein equations generated from electrovacuum configurations embedded in external electromagnetic backgrounds. Starting from accelerating…

gr-qc2026

Melvin--Bonnor and Bertotti--Robinson spacetimes with Baryonic charge

José Barrientos, Fabrizio Canfora, Adolfo Cisterna +2

In this work, we exploit a dictionary that maps solutions of the Einstein--Scalar--Maxwell theory to those of gauged Skyrme--Maxwell--Einstein models in dimensions, allowin…

gr-qc2025

A new exact rotating spacetime in vacuum: The Kerr--Levi-Civita Spacetime

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, Mokhtar Hassaine +2

We construct a new rotating solution of Einstein's theory in vacuum by exploiting the Lie point symmetries of the field equations in the complex potential formalism of Ernst. In pa…

hep-th2025

ModMax Electrodynamics and Holographic Magnetotransport

José Barrientos, Nicolás Cáceres, Felipe Diaz +1

We study magnetotransport in a holographic model where ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics is coupled to Einstein anti--de Sitter gravity. To incorporate momentum relaxation, we intro…

gr-qc2025★ 7 cited

Rotating spacetimes with a free scalar field in four and five dimensions

José Barrientos, Christos Charmousis, Adolfo Cisterna +1

We construct explicit rotating solutions in Einstein's theory of relativity with a minimally coupled free scalar field rederiving and finding solutions in four or five spacetime di…

gr-qc2024★ 37 cited

Electromagnetized black holes and swirling backgrounds in nonlinear electrodynamics: The ModMax case

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, Mokhtar Hassaine +1

This work focuses on constructing electromagnetized black holes and vortex-like backgrounds within the framework of the ModMax theory--the unique nonlinear extension of Maxwell's t…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

All non-expanding gravitational waves in -dimensional (anti-)de Sitter space

Marcello Ortaggio, Jakub Voldřich, José Barrientos

We present a complete, theory-independent classification of -dimensional Kundt spacetimes of Weyl and traceless-Ricci type N. We show that these geometries consist of three inva…

gr-qc2024★ 19 cited

Revisiting Buchdahl transformations: New static and rotating black holes in vacuum, double copy, and hairy extensions

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, Mokhtar Hassaine +1

This paper investigates Buchdahl transformations within the framework of Einstein and Einstein-Scalar theories. Specifically, we establish that the recently proposed Schwarzschild-…

gr-qc2024★ 25 cited

Mixing "Magnetic'' and "Electric'' Ehlers--Harrison transformations: The Electromagnetic Swirling Spacetime and Novel Type I Backgrounds

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, Ivan Kolář +3

In this paper, we obtain a complete list of stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes, generated from a Minkowski spacetime using the Ernst technique. We do so by operating on the ass…

gr-qc2023★ 12 cited

Plebanśki-Demiański à la Ehlers-Harrison: Exact Rotating and Accelerating Type I Black Holes

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, Konstantinos Pallikaris

Recently, it was shown that type D black holes, encompassed in the large Plebanśki--Demiański (PD) family, exhibit a wide class of algebraically general generalizations via the app…

gr-qc2023★ 38 cited

Ehlers transformations as a tool for constructing accelerating NUT black holes

Jose Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna

This paper investigates the integrability properties of Einstein's theory of gravity in the context of accelerating Newman-Unti-Tamburino (NUT) spacetimes by utilizing Ernst's desc…

gr-qc2022★ 22 cited

Joule-Thomson expansion of AdS black holes in quasi-topological electromagnetism

José Barrientos, José Mena

We study the Joule-Thomson expansion in Einstein-Maxwell theory supplemented with the so-called quasitopological electromagnetism, this in the extended phase space thermodynamic ap…

gr-qc2022★ 74 cited

Accelerated Black Holes beyond Maxwell's Electrodynamics

Jose Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, David Kubiznak +1

Theories of non-linear electrodynamics naturally describe deviations from Maxwell's theory in the strong field regime. Among these, of special interest is the recently discovered M…

hep-th2022★ 15 cited

Gravitational instantons with conformally coupled scalar fields

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, Cristóbal Corral +1

We present novel regular Euclidean solutions to General Relativity in presence of Maxwell and conformally coupled scalar fields. In particular, we consider metrics of the Eguchi-Ha…

hep-th2022★ 36 cited

AdS-Taub-NUT spacetimes and exact black bounces with scalar hair

José Barrientos, Adolfo Cisterna, Nicolás Mora +1

We present a new family of exact four-dimensional Taub-NUT spacetimes in Einstein- theory supplemented with a conformally coupled scalar field exhibiting a power-counting super-…

gr-qc2019★ 23 cited

Luminal Propagation of Gravitational Waves in Scalar-tensor Theories: The Case for Torsion

José Barrientos, Fabrizio Cordonier-Tello, Cristóbal Corral +4

Scalar-tensor gravity theories with a nonminimal Gauss-Bonnet coupling typically lead to an anomalous propagation speed for gravitational waves, and have therefore been tightly con…

gr-qc2019

Wave Operators, Torsion, and Weitzenböck Identities

José Barrientos, Fernando Izaurieta, Eduardo Rodríguez +1

We offer a mathematical toolkit for the study of waves propagating on a background manifold with nonvanishing torsion. Examples include electromagnetic and gravitational waves on a…

gr-qc2017★ 30 cited

Nonminimal couplings, gravitational waves, and torsion in Horndeski's theory

José Barrientos, Fabrizio Cordonier-Tello, Fernando Izaurieta +4

The Horndeski Lagrangian brings together all possible interactions between gravity and a scalar field that yield second-order field equations in four-dimensional spacetime. As orig…

hep-th2016★ 15 cited

Four-dimensional black holes with scalar hair in nonlinear electrodynamics

José O. Barrientos, P. A. González, Yerko Vásquez

We consider a gravitating system consisting of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity with a self-interacting potential and a U(1) nonlinear electromagnetic field. Solving ana…