473 research outputs found
Exterior and interior metrics with quadrupole moment
We present the Ernst potential and the line element of an exact solution of
Einstein's vacuum field equations that contains as arbitrary parameters the
total mass, the angular momentum, and the quadrupole moment of a rotating mass
distribution. We show that in the limiting case of slowly rotating and slightly
deformed configuration, there exists a coordinate transformation that relates
the exact solution with the approximate Hartle solution. It is shown that this
approximate solution can be smoothly matched with an interior perfect fluid
solution with physically reasonable properties. This opens the possibility of
considering the quadrupole moment as an additional physical degree of freedom
that could be used to search for a realistic exact solution, representing both
the interior and exterior gravitational field generated by a self-gravitating
axisymmetric distribution of mass of perfect fluid in stationary rotation.Comment: Latex, 15 pages, 3 figures, final versio
Source integrals of asymptotic multipole moments
We derive source integrals for multipole moments that describe the behaviour
of static and axially symmetric spacetimes close to spatial infinity. We assume
isolated non-singular sources but will not restrict the matter content
otherwise. Some future applications of these source integrals of the asymptotic
multipole moments are outlined as well.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure, contribution to the proceedings of the conference
"Relativity and Gravitation - 100 Years after Einstein in Prague", June
25-29, 2012, Pragu
Formation of closed timelike curves in a composite vacuum/dust asymptotically-flat spacetime
We present a new asymptotically-flat time-machine model made solely of vacuum
and dust. The spacetime evolves from a regular spacelike initial hypersurface S
and subsequently develops closed timelike curves. The initial hypersurface S is
asymptotically flat and topologically trivial. The chronology violation occurs
in a compact manner; namely the first closed causal curves form at the boundary
of the future domain of dependence of a compact region in S (the core). This
central core is empty, and so is the external asymptotically flat region. The
intermediate region surrounding the core (the envelope) is made of dust with
positive energy density. This model trivially satisfies the weak, dominant, and
strong energy conditions. Furthermore it is governed by a well-defined system
of field equations which possesses a well-posed initial-value problem.Comment: 15 pages; accepted to Phys. Rev. D (no modifications
Null Killing Vector Dimensional Reduction and Galilean Geometrodynamics
The solutions of Einstein's equations admitting one non-null Killing vector
field are best studied with the projection formalism of Geroch. When the
Killing vector is lightlike, the projection onto the orbit space still exists
and one expects a covariant theory with degenerate contravariant metric to
appear, its geometry is presented here. Despite the complications of
indecomposable representations of the local Euclidean subgroup, one obtains an
absolute time and a canonical, Galilean and so-called Newtonian, torsionless
connection. The quasi-Maxwell field (Kaluza Klein one-form) that appears in the
dimensional reduction is a non-separable part of this affine connection, in
contrast to the reduction with a non-null Killing vector. One may define the
Kaluza Klein scalar (dilaton) together with the absolute time coordinate after
having imposed one of the equations of motion in order to prevent the emergence
of torsion. We present a detailed analysis of the dimensional reduction using
moving frames, we derive the complete equations of motion and propose an action
whose variation gives rise to all but one of them. Hidden symmetries are shown
to act on the space of solutions.Comment: LATEX, 41 pages, no figure
How to make a traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild black hole
The theoretical construction of a traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild
black hole is described, using analytic solutions in Einstein gravity. The
matter model is pure phantom radiation (pure radiation with negative energy
density) and the idealization of impulsive radiation is employed.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
On the Causality and Stability of the Relativistic Diffusion Equation
This paper examines the mathematical properties of the relativistic diffusion
equation. The peculiar solution which Hiscock and Lindblom identified as an
instability is shown to emerge from an ill-posed initial value problem. These
do not meet the mathematical conditions required for realistic physical
problems and can not serve as an argument against the relativistic
hydrodynamics of Landau and Lifshitz.Comment: 6 page
A Brief Remark on Energy Conditions and the Geroch-Jang Theorem
The status of the geodesic principle in General Relativity has been a topic
of some interest in the recent literature on the foundations of spacetime
theories. Part of this discussion has focused on the role that a certain energy
condition plays in the proof of a theorem due to Bob Geroch and Pong-Soo Jang
["Motion of a Body in General Relativity." Journal of Mathematical Physics
16(1), (1975)] that can be taken to make precise the claim that the geodesic
principle is a theorem, rather than a postulate, of General Relativity. In this
brief note, I show, by explicit counterexample, that not only is a weaker
energy condition than the one Geroch and Jang state insufficient to prove the
theorem, but in fact a condition still stronger than the one that they assume
is necessary.Comment: 8 page
Gravity on a parallelizable manifold. Exact solutions
The wave type field equation \square \vt^a=\la \vt^a, where \vt^a is a
coframe field on a space-time, was recently proposed to describe the gravity
field. This equation has a unique static, spherical-symmetric,
asymptotically-flat solution, which leads to the viable Yilmaz-Rosen metric. We
show that the wave type field equation is satisfied by the pseudo-conformal
frame if the conformal factor is determined by a scalar 3D-harmonic function.
This function can be related to the Newtonian potential of classical gravity.
So we obtain a direct relation between the non-relativistic gravity and the
relativistic model: every classical exact solution leads to a solution of the
field equation. With this result we obtain a wide class of exact, static
metrics. We show that the theory of Yilmaz relates to the pseudo-conformal
sector of our construction. We derive also a unique cosmological (time
dependent) solution of the described type.Comment: Latex, 17 page
Two-loop finiteness of D=2 supergravity
We establish two-loop (on shell) finiteness of certain supergravity theories
in two dimensions. Possible implications of this result are discussedComment: 11 page
Poisson Realization and Quantization of the Geroch Group
The conserved nonlocal charges generating the Geroch group with respect to
the canonical Poisson structure of the Ernst equation are found. They are shown
to build a quadratic Poisson algebra, which suggests to identify the quantum
Geroch algebra with Yangian structures.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX2
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