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gr-qc2025

Time as a Cosmological Phenomenon

Andrea Palessandro

We show that the arrow of time is intimately related to the geometry and topology of the whole universe, and is therefore best understood as a cosmological phenomenon.

gr-qc2024

Infeasibility of Graviton Detection as Cosmic Censorship

Andrea Palessandro

We construct an explicit model of inhomogeneous gravitational collapse leading to a naked singularity in which gravitational absorption is both efficient and observable. We propose…

gr-qc2024★ 3 cited

Graviton-Photon Oscillations as a Probe of Quantum Gravity

Andrea Palessandro

The Gertsenshtein effect could in principle be used to detect a single graviton by firing it through a region filled with a constant magnetic field that enables its conversion to a…

gr-qc2024★ 5 cited

Graviton-Photon Oscillations in an Expanding Universe

Peter Anninos, Tony Rothman, Andrea Palessandro

Through the Gertsenshtein effect, the presence of a large external B-field may allow photons and gravitons to mix in a way that resembles neutrino oscillations and is even more sim…

gr-qc2023★ 22 cited

A Simple Derivation of the Gertsenshtein Effect

Andrea Palessandro, Tony Rothman

As shown by Gertsenshtein in 1961, an external magnetic field can catalyze the mixing of graviton and photon states in a manner analogous to neutrino-flavor oscillations. We first…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Autocatalysis of Graviton Production via the Gertsenshtein Effect for the Yang-Mills Field

Andrea Palessandro, Tony Rothman

As shown by Gertsenshtein in 1961, an external magnetic field can couple electromagnetic to gravitational waves, giving rise to oscillations between them. Viewed as a quantum proce…