General solutions in Chern-Simons gravity and $$ T\overline{T} $$-deformations

We find the most general solution to Chern-Simons AdS3 gravity in Fefferman-Graham gauge. The connections are equivalent to geometries that have a non-trivial curved boundary, characterized by a 2-dimensional vielbein and a spin connection. We define a variational principle for Dirichlet boundary conditions and find the boundary stress tensor in the Chern-Simons formalism. Using this variational principle as the departure point, we show how to treat other choices of boundary conditions in this formalism, such as, including the mixed boundary conditions corresponding to a $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ -deformation.

Brown–York energy in stationary spacetimes

One usually defines the Brown–York energy for a 2-surface embedded in a space-like 3-slice as an integration of the mean curvature of the 2-surface isometrically embedded into the 3-slice, with a proper reference 3-space. We demonstrate that this naive definition is ill for stationary spacetimes. As an example, we investigate the Kerr–Newman spacetime in detail. We show that the naive definition of the Brown–York energy is not a component of the Brown–York boundary stress tensor, and thus deviates from the original idea of Brown and York. Furthermore, we present the exact form of the Brown–York energy for the Kerr–Newman spacetime with proper reference.

An improvement of the Lagrangian analysis method based on particle velocity profiles

In general, techniques used in studies on dynamic behaviour of materials could be classified into two categories, namely the split Hopkinson pressure bar technique (SHPB) and the wave propagation technique (WPT). Lagrangian analysis method is one of the most famous methods in WPT. The traditional Lagrangian analysis based on the particle velocity wave-profiles measurements should consider a boundary condition, because it involves integral operations. However, the boundary stress data in some cases cannot be detected or determined by the experimental measures. To tackle this situation, this paper presents a modified Lagrangian analysis method which does not involve the boundary stress computation. Starting from the path-lines method and utilizing the zero-initial condition, the material constitutive stress-strain curves under high strain-rates is deduced from only observing the particle velocity curve measurements. The dynamic stress/strain wave-profiles of the PMMA material, as a paradigm, are numerically studied using the proposed method, which are well in agreement with the theoretical result using the method of characteristics, which confirms the reliability and validity of the presented method.