This collection of perspective pieces captures recent advancements and reflections from a dynamic research community dedicated to bridging quantum gravity, hydrodynamics, and emergent cosmology. It explores four key research areas: (a) the interplay between hydrodynamics and cosmology, including analog gravity systems; (b) phase transitions, continuum limits and emergent geometry in quantum gravity;

String theory has provided a resolution of the puzzles that arise in the quantum theory of black holes. The emerging picture of the hole, encoded in the ‘fuzzball paradigm’, offers deep lessons about the role of quantum gravity on macroscopic length scales. In this article we list these puzzles and explain how they get resolved. We extract the lessons of this resolution in a form that does not involve

The existence of a set of 10 Intrinsic Conformal Symmetries, which acts on three-dimensional hypersurfaces (spacelike or timelike), leads to the existence of two distinct families of 5D geometries. These models represent the general solutions of the bulk field equations where their energy-momentum tensor, includes only two components: a negative cosmological constant and a parallel pressure \(p_{\parallel

This "vision document" is about what the future has in store for tests of general relativity with gravitational wave detectors. I will make an honest attempt to answer this question by addressing the role of inspiral-based and ringdown-based tests; recent progress on quasinormal modes in modified theories of gravity; the complementarity between light ring tests and ringdown tests; and the interesting

Event horizons and Cauchy horizons are highly idealized mathematical constructions that do not fully capture the key physics of either Hawking radiation or mass inflation. Indeed, because they are teleological, both event horizons and Cauchy horizons are (in a precise technical sense) not physically observable. In contrast, by inspecting the quasi-local behaviour of null geodesics, long-lived apparent

Recent conjectures on the complexity of black holes suggest that their evolution manifests in the structural properties of Einstein-Rosen bridges, like the length and volume. The complexity of black holes relates to the computational complexity of their dual, namely holographic, quantum systems identified via the Gauge/Gravity duality framework. Interestingly, the latter allows us to study the evolution

Hawking’s seminal work on black hole radiation highlights a critical issue in our understanding of quantum field theory in curved spacetime (QFTCS), specifically the problem of unitarity loss (where pure states evolve into mixed states). In this paper, we examine a recent proposal for a direct-sum QFTCS, which maintains unitarity through a novel quantization method that employs geometric superselection

We construct a new class of \((n+1)\)-dimensional Lifshitz dilaton black brane solutions in the presence of the cubic quasitopological gravity for a flat boundary. The related action supports asymptotically Lifshitz solutions by applying some conditions which are used throughout the paper. We have to add a new boundary term and some new counterterms to the bulk action to have finite solutions. Then

We study zero and finite temperature static Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) stars in the combined Rastall-Rainbow (RR) theory of gravity by considering different BEC equation of states (EoSs). We obtain the global properties of BEC stars by solving the modified Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations of RR gravity with values of Rastall parameter \(\kappa \) and Rainbow function \(\Sigma \) chosen accordingly

This paper investigates the Joule-Thomson expansion for a five-dimensional neutral Gauss-Bonnet Anti-de Sitter black hole. Firstly, by taking Van der Waals gas as an example, we induce the definition of the Joule-Thomson coefficient and the inversion phenomena. One can give the T–P graph and the inversion curves. Then, we obtain the thermodynamic properties of the Gauss-Bonnet black hole and use the

Quantum gravity has been baffling the theoretical physicist for decades now, both for its mathematical obscurity and phenomenological testing. Nevertheless, the new era of precision cosmology presents a promising avenue to test the effects of quantum gravity. In this study, we consider a bottom-up approach. Without resorting to any candidate quantum gravity, we invoke a generalized uncertainty principle

We consider a homogeneous and isotropic spacetime having a space of positive curvature and study the cosmic evolution of dynamical vacuum energy. We utilize the dynamical system technique to study the existence of fixed points and their corresponding stability in model. The corresponding cosmological solutions describe late-time accelerating universe having decelerating era composed of radiation and

We discuss the problem of singularity crossing in isotropic and anisotropic universes. We study at which conditions singularities can disappear in quantum cosmology and how quantum particles behave in the vicinity of singularities. Some attempts to develop general approach to the connection between the field reparametrization and the elimination of singularities is presented as well.

The gravitational interaction of (classical and quantum) spinning bodies is currently the focus of many works using a variety of approaches. This note is a comment on a short paper by Jean-Marie Souriau, now reprinted in the GRG Golden Oldies collection. Souriau’s short 1970 note was a pioneering contribution to a symplectic description of the dynamics of spinning particles in general relativity which

This paper was a pioneering contribution to a symplectic description of the dynamics of spinning particles in general relativity which remained somewhat unnoticed. In particular, it introduced the pre-symplectic 2-form \(\sigma \) describing the dynamics of spinning particles coupled to an Einsteinian curved background. The method throws light on approaches to spinning black holes and neutron stars

Classical General Relativity is a dynamical theory of spacetime metrics of Lorentzian signature. In particular the classical metric field is nowhere degenerate in spacetime. In its initial value formulation with respect to a Cauchy surface the induced metric is of Euclidian signature and nowhere degenerate on it. It is only under this assumption of non-degeneracy of the induced metric that one can

The geodesic motion in a Lorentzian spacetime can be described by trajectories in a 3-dimensional Riemannian metric. In this article we present a generalized Jacobi metric obtained from projecting a Lorentzian metric over the directions of its Killing vectors. The resulting Riemannian metric inherits the geodesics for asymptotically flat spacetimes including the stationary and axisymmetric ones. The

The gauge formalism in telepalallel gravity provides an interesting viewpoint to describe interactions according to an anholonomic observer’s tetrad basis. Without going into assessing the complete viability of quantization in an early stage, this paper explores classical gravity within the framework of a classical-to-quantum bridge between the SU(1, 3) Yang–Mills gauge formalism and the gauge-like

In a work by Visser, Bassett and Liberati (VBL) (Nucl Phys B Proc Suppl 88:267, 2000) a relation was suggested between a null energy condition and the censorship of superluminal behaviour. Their result was soon challenged by Gao and Wald (Class Quantum Grav 17:4999, 2000) who argued that this relation is gauge dependent and therefore not appropriate to find such connections. In this paper, we clear

In the era of gravitational waves physics, when detections of wave fronts are increasing in number, sensitivity, frequencies and distances, gravitational physics has entered a period of maximum activity and brilliance. This has open a new window where General Relativity can be challenged in both weak as strong-field regimes. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of gravitational waves propagation

We show generically that the dynamics of a probe particle near the event horizon of a non-extreme black hole is described by the tachyon effective action. The Hagedorn temperature in the action is always equal to the Hawking temperature of the background black hole. The fact suggests that the infalling particle should decay completely into gravitons or closed strings approaching the event horizon.

This article assesses Landauer’s principle from information theory in the context of area quantization of the Schwarzschild black hole. Within a quantum-mechanical perspective where Hawking evaporation can be interpreted in terms of transitions between the discrete states of the area (or mass) spectrum, we justify that Landauer’s principle holds consistently in the saturated form when the number of

If two ultrarelativistic nonrotating black holes of masses \(m_1\) and \(m_2\) approach each other with fixed center-of-momentum (COM) total energy \(E = \sqrt{s} \gg (m_1+m_2)c^2\) that has a corresponding Schwarzschild radius \(R = 2GE/c^4\) much larger than the Schwarzschild radii of the individual black holes, here it is conjectured that at the critical impact parameter \(b_c\) between scattering

The null-surface formulation (NSF) of general relativity differs markedly from the conventional approach. The conventional approach to general relativity is concerned with local fields such as the metric, whereas the NSF focuses on surfaces. The NSF has two distinct but mathematically equivalent interpretations: (a) Future-directed light rays leave a spacetime point and intersect future null-infinity

In principle, the local classification of spacetimes is always possible using the Cartan-Karlhede algorithm. However, in practice, the process of determining equivalence of two spacetimes relies on determining if a set of equations has a solution. Depending on the form of the equations this may be undecideable. Furthemore, if a solution does exist the equations may still be unsolvable in some way.