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most citedSimpler than vacuum: Antiscalar alternatives to black holes

23 citations · 52 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

gr-qc2025

The exponential metric: traversable wormhole and possible identification of scalar background

Eduard Mychelkin, Gulnara Suliyeva, Maxim Makukov

The static antiscalar solution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations in the form of the Papapetrou exponential metric had been interpreted as a traversable wormhole with a throat…

gr-qc2024

On the weak and strong field effects in antiscalar background

Eduard Mychelkin, Maxim Makukov, Gulnara Suliyeva +1

The triumph of general relativity under the banner "gravity is geometry" began with confirming the crucial effects within the Solar system and proceeded recently to the strong-fiel…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

Rotation in vacuum and scalar background: are there alternatives to Newman-Janis algorithm?

Maxim Makukov, Eduard Mychelkin

The Newman-Janis algorithm is the standard approach to rotation in general relativity which, in vacuum, builds the Kerr metric from the Schwarzschild spacetime. Recently, we have s…

gr-qc2020★ 8 cited

Triple path to the exponential metric

Maxim Makukov, Eduard Mychelkin

The exponential Papapetrou metric induced by scalar field conforms to observational data not worse than the vacuum Schwarzschild solution. Here, we analyze the origin of this metri…

gr-qc2019★ 2 cited

The scalarized Raychaudhuri identity and its applications

Eduard G. Mychelkin, Maxim A. Makukov

We show that the covariant Raychaudhuri identity describing kinematic characteristics of space-time admits a representation involving a geometrical scalar which, depending on c…

gr-qc2018★ 23 cited

Simpler than vacuum: Antiscalar alternatives to black holes

Maxim Makukov, Eduard Mychelkin

The Janis-Newman-Winicour and Papapetrou metrics represent counterparts to the Schwarzschild black hole with scalar and antiscalar background fields, correspondingly (where "anti"…