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most citedThe Newman-Penrose Map and the Classical Double Copy

59 citations · 221 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

math.DG2026

Potential Carroll Structures and Special Carrollian Manifolds

Samuel Blitz, Gabriel Herczeg, David McNutt

It is well-known that unlike space-like and time-like hypersurfaces, null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds do not naturally inherit an affine connection from the spacetime in…

hep-th2025

The Penrose Transform and the Kerr-Schild double copy

Emma Albertini, Michael L. Graesser, Gabriel Herczeg

There are a number of classical double copies, each providing a prescription for generating solutions to the Maxwell and scalar wave equations from exact solutions of Einstein's eq…

hep-th2024

Taub-NUT Instanton as the Self-dual Analog of Kerr

Jash Desai, Gabriel Herczeg, David McNutt +1

It was recently conjectured that a certain vacuum Kerr-Schild spacetime, which may be regarded as a self-dual analog of the Kerr metric, is equivalent to the self-dual Taub-NUT ins…

hep-th2023

Double Kerr-Schild spacetimes and the Newman-Penrose map

Kara Farnsworth, Michael Graesser, Gabriel Herczeg

The Newman-Penrose map, which is closely related to the classical double copy, associates certain exact solutions of Einstein's equations with self-dual solutions of the vacuum Max…

gr-qc2023★ 31 cited

Isometries and the double copy

Damien A. Easson, Gabriel Herczeg, Tucker Manton +1

In the standard derivation of the Kerr-Schild double copy, the geodicity of the Kerr-Schild vector and the stationarity of the spacetime are presented as assumptions that are neces…

gr-qc2023

Dynamical Henneaux-Teitelboim Gravity

Emma Albertini, Kyle Barnes, Gabriel Herczeg

We consider a modified gravity model which we call "dynamical Henneaux-Teitelboim gravity" because of its close relationship with the Henneaux-Teitelboim formulation of unimodular…

hep-th2022★ 17 cited

An Inner Product for 4D Quantum Gravity and the Chern-Simons-Kodama State

Stephon Alexander, Laurent Freidel, Gabriel Herczeg

We demonstrate that reality conditions for the Ashtekar connection imply a non-trivial measure for the inner product of gravitational states in the polarization where the Ashtekar…

gr-qc2022★ 5 cited

Torsion and the Probability of Inflation

Emma Albertini, Stephon Alexander, Gabriel Herczeg +1

We revisit the problem of the "probability of inflation" from the point of view of the Einstein-Cartan theory, where torsion can be present off-shell even in the absence of spinori…

gr-qc2021★ 4 cited

Black hole and cosmological analysis of BF sequestered gravity

Stephon Alexander, Steven J. Clark, Gabriel Herczeg +1

We study a minimal extension of a recently proposed modification of general relativity that draws on concepts from topological field theory to resolve aspects of the cosmological c…

hep-th2021★ 37 cited

Twistor Space Origins of the Newman-Penrose Map

Kara Farnsworth, Michael L. Graesser, Gabriel Herczeg

Recently, we introduced the "Newman-Penrose map," a novel correspondence between a certain class of solutions of Einstein's equations and self-dual solutions of the vacuum Maxwell…

math-ph2021

Dynamical Quantization of Contact Structures

Roger Casals, Gabriel Herczeg, Andrew Waldron

We construct a dynamical quantization for contact manifolds in terms of a flat connection acting on a Hilbert tractor bundle. We show that this contact quantization, which is indep…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

A generalized Hartle-Hawking wavefunction

Stephon Alexander, Gabriel Herczeg, Joao Magueijo

The Hartle-Hawking wave function is known to be the Fourier dual of the Chern-Simons or Kodama state reduced to mini-superspace, using an integration contour covering the whole rea…

hep-th2020★ 59 cited

The Newman-Penrose Map and the Classical Double Copy

Gilly Elor, Kara Farnsworth, Michael L. Graesser +1

Gauge-gravity duality is arguably our best hope for understanding quantum gravity. Considerable progress has been made in relating scattering amplitudes in certain gravity theories…

gr-qc2020★ 7 cited

Chiral Symmetry and the Cosmological Constant

Stephon Alexander, Gabriel Herczeg, Jinglong Liu +1

In this work we provide a link between a nearly vanishing cosmological constant and chiral symmetry. This is accomplished with a modification of General Relativity coupled to a top…

hep-th2018★ 2 cited

Contact Quantization: Quantum Mechanics = Parallel transport

G. Herczeg, E. Latini, A. Waldron

Quantization together with quantum dynamics can be simultaneously formulated as the problem of finding an appropriate flat connection on a Hilbert bundle over a contact manifold. C…

gr-qc2017

A Tour Through Shape Dynamic Black Holes

Gabriel Herczeg

Shape dynamics is a classical theory of gravity which agrees with general relativity in many important cases, but possesses different gauge symmetries and constraints. Rather than…

hep-th2017★ 21 cited

Contact Geometry and Quantum Mechanics

Gabriel Herczeg, Andrew Waldron

We present a generally covariant approach to quantum mechanics in which generalized positions, momenta and time variables are treated as coordinates on a fundamental "phase-spaceti…

gr-qc2015★ 3 cited

Parity Horizons in Shape Dynamics

Gabriel Herczeg

I introduce the notion of a parity horizon, and show that many simple solutions of shape dynamics possess them. I show that the event horizons of the known asymptotically flat blac…

gr-qc2014★ 1 cited

Towards Black Hole Entropy in Shape Dynamics

Gabriel Herczeg, Vasudev Shyam

Shape dynamics is classical theory of gravity which agrees with general relativity in many important cases, but possesses different gauge symmetries and constraints. Rather than sp…

gr-qc2013★ 22 cited

A Rotating Black Hole Solution for Shape Dynamics

Henrique Gomes, Gabriel Herczeg

Shape dynamics is a classical theory of gravity which agrees with general relativity in many important aspects, but which possesses different gauge symmetries and can present some…