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Similarities Between Classical Timelike Geodesics in a Naked Reissner-Nordstrom Singularity Background and the Behaviour of Electrons in Quantum Theory
It is generally assumed that naked singularities must be physically excluded,
as they could otherwise introduce unpredictable influences in their future null
cones. Considering geodesics for a naked Reissner-Nordstrom singularity, it is
found that the singularity is effectively clothed by its repulsive nature.
Regarding electron as naked singularity, the size of the clothed singularity
(electron) turns out to be classical electro-magnetic radius of the electron,
to an observer falling freely from infinity, initially at rest. The size
shrinks for an observer falling freely from infinity, with a positive initial
velocity. For geodetic parameters corresponding to negative energy there are
trapped geodesics. The similarity of this picture with that arising in the
Quantum Theory is discussed.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Asymptotic Behaviour of the Proper Length and Volume of the Schwarzschild Singularity
Though popular presentations give the Schwarzschild singularity as a point it
is known that it is spacelike and not timelike. Thus it has a "length" and is
not a "point". In fact, its length must necessarily be infinite. It has been
proved that the proper length of the Qadir-Wheeler suture model goes to
infinity [1], while its proper volume shrinks to zero, and the asymptotic
behaviour of the length and volume have been calculated. That model consists of
two Friedmann sections connected by a Schwarzschild "suture". The question
arises whether a similar analysis could provide the asymptotic behaviour of the
Schwarzschild black hole near the singularity. It is proved here that, unlike
the behaviour for the suture model, for the Schwarzschild essential singularity
and , where
is the mean extrinsic curvature, or the York time.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figur
Note on flat foliations of spherically symmetric spacetimes
It is known that spherically symmetric spacetimes admit flat spacelike
foliations. We point out a simple method of seeing this result via the
Hamiltonian constraints of general relativity. The method yields explicit
formulas for the extrinsic curvatures of the slicings.Comment: 4 pages, to appear in PRD, reference added, typos correcte
Uniqueness of Flat Spherically Symmetric Spacelike Hypersurfaces Admitted by Spherically Symmetric Static Spactimes
It is known that spherically symmetric static spacetimes admit a foliation by
{\deg}at hypersurfaces. Such foliations have explicitly been constructed for
some spacetimes, using different approaches, but none of them have proved or
even discussed the uniqueness of these foliations. The issue of uniqueness
becomes more important due to suitability of {\deg}at foliations for studying
black hole physics. Here {\deg}at spherically symmetric spacelike hy-
persurfaces are obtained by a direct method. It is found that spherically
symmetric static spacetimes admit {\deg}at spherically symmetric hypersurfaces,
and that these hypersurfaces are unique up to translation under the time- like
Killing vector. This result guarantees the uniqueness of {\deg}at spherically
symmetric foliations for such spacetimes.Comment: 10 page
Charged Rotating BTZ Black Hole and Thermodynamic Behavior of Field Equations at its Horizon
In this paper, we study different cases of the charged rotating BTZ black
hole with reference to their horizons. For the existence of these cases
conditions on mass, charge and angular momentum of the black hole are obtained.
It is also shown that the Einstein field equations for the charged rotating BTZ
black hole at the horizon can be expressed as first law of thermodynamics,
.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
A Method for Generating Approximate Similarity Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Standard application of similarity method to find solutions of PDEs mostly results in reduction to ODEs which are not easily integrable in terms of elementary or tabulated functions. Such situations usually demand solving reduced ODEs numerically. However, there are no systematic procedures available to utilize these numerical solutions of reduced ODE to obtain the solution of original PDE. A practical and tractable approach is proposed to deal with such situations and is applied to obtain approximate similarity solutions to different cases of an initial-boundary value problem of unsteady gas flow through a semi-infinite porous medium
Foliation of the Kottler-Schwarzschild-De Sitter Spacetime by Flat Spacelike Hypersurfaces
There exist Kruskal like coordinates for the Reissner-Nordstrom (RN) black
hole spacetime which are regular at coordinate singularities. Non existence of
such coordinates for the extreme RN black hole spacetime has already been
shown. Also the Carter coordinates available for the extreme case are not
manifestly regular at the coordinate singularity, therefore, a numerical
procedure was developed to obtain free fall geodesics and flat foliation for
the extreme RN black hole spacetime. The Kottler-Schwarzschild-de Sitter
(KSSdS) spacetime geometry is similar to the RN geometry in the sense that,
like the RN case, there exist non-singular coordinates when there are two
distinct coordinate singularities. There are no manifestly regular coordinates
for the extreme KSSdS case. In this paper foliation of all the cases of the
KSSdS spacetime by flat spacelike hypersurfaces is obtained by introducing a
non-singular time coordinate.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure