148 research outputs found
Rigid spheres in Riemannian spaces
Choice of an appropriate (3+1)-foliation of spacetime or a (2+1)-foliation of
the Cauchy space, leads often to a substantial simplification of various
mathematical problems in General Relativity Theory. We propose a new method to
construct such foliations. For this purpose we define a special family of
topological two-spheres, which we call "rigid spheres". We prove that there is
a four-parameter family of rigid spheres in a generic Riemannian three-manifold
(in case of the flat Euclidean three-space these four parameters are: 3
coordinates of the center and the radius of the sphere). The rigid spheres can
be used as building blocks for various ("spherical", "bispherical" etc.)
foliations of the Cauchy space. This way a supertranslation ambiguity may be
avoided. Generalization to the full 4D case is discussed. Our results
generalize both the Huang foliations (cf. \cite{LHH}) and the foliations used
by us (cf. \cite{JKL}) in the analysis of the two-body problem.Comment: 23 page
Energy and angular momentum of the weak gravitational waves on the Schwarzschild background -- quasilocal gauge-invariant formulation
It is shown that the axial and polar perturbations of the spherically
symmetric black hole can be described in a gauge-invariant way. The reduced
phase space describing gravitational waves outside of the horizon is described
by the gauge-invariant quantities. Both degrees of freedom fulfill generalized
scalar wave equation. For the axial degree of freedom the radial part of the
equation corresponds to the Regge-Wheeler result (Phys. Rev. 108, 1063-1069
(1957)) and for the polar one we get Zerilli result (Phys. Rev. D2, 2141-2160
(1970)), see also Chandrasekhar (The Mathematical Theory of Black
Holes,(Clarendon Press Oxford, 1983)), Moncrief (Annals of Physics 88, 323-342
(1974)) for both. An important ingredient of the analysis is the concept of
quasilocality which does duty for the separation of the angular variables in
the usual approach. Moreover, there is no need to represent perturbations by
normal modes (with time dependence ), we have fields in spacetime
and the Cauchy problem for them is well defined outside of the horizon. The
reduced symplectic structure explains the origin of the axial and polar
invariants. It allows to introduce an energy and angular momentum for the
gravitational waves which is invariant with respect to the gauge
transformations. Both generators represent quadratic approximation of the ADM
nonlinear formulae in terms of the perturbations of the Schwarzschild metric.
We also discuss the boundary-initial value problem for the linearized Einstein
equations on a Schwarzschild background outside of the horizon.Comment: 23 page
Energy-minimizing two black holes initial data
An attempt to construct the ``ground state'' vacuum initial data for the
gravitational field surrounding two black holes is presented. The ground state
is defined as the gravitational initial data minimizing the ADM mass within the
class of data for which the masses of the holes and their distance are fixed.
To parameterize different geometric arrangements of the two holes (and,
therefore, their distance) we use an appropriately chosen scale factor. A
method for analyzing the variations of the ADM mass and the masses (areas) of
the horizons in terms of gravitational degrees of freedom is proposed. The
Misner initial data are analyzed in this context: it is shown that they do not
minimize the ADM mass.Comment: Minor corrections, 2 references adde
Conformal Yano-Killing tensor for the Kerr metric and conserved quantities
Properties of (skew-symmetric) conformal Yano--Killing tensors are reviewed.
Explicit forms of three symmetric conformal Killing tensors in Kerr spacetime
are obtained from the Yano--Killing tensor. The relation between spin-2 fields
and solutions to the Maxwell equations is used in the construction of a new
conserved quantity which is quadratic in terms of the Weyl tensor. The formula
obtained is similar to the functional obtained from the Bel--Robinson tensor
and is examined in Kerr spacetime. A new interpretation of the conserved
quantity obtained is proposed.Comment: 29 page
Dynamics of a self gravitating light-like matter shell: a gauge-invariant Lagrangian and Hamiltonian description
A complete Lagrangian and Hamiltonian description of the theory of
self-gravitating light-like matter shells is given in terms of
gauge-independent geometric quantities. For this purpose the notion of an
extrinsic curvature for a null-like hypersurface is discussed and the
corresponding Gauss-Codazzi equations are proved. These equations imply Bianchi
identities for spacetimes with null-like, singular curvature. Energy-momentum
tensor-density of a light-like matter shell is unambiguously defined in terms
of an invariant matter Lagrangian density. Noether identity and
Belinfante-Rosenfeld theorem for such a tensor-density are proved. Finally, the
Hamiltonian dynamics of the interacting system: ``gravity + matter'' is derived
from the total Lagrangian, the latter being an invariant scalar density.Comment: 20 pages, RevTeX4, no figure
Semimetalic antiferromagnetism in the half-Heusler compound CuMnSb
The half-Heusler compound CuMnSb, the first antiferromagnet (AFM) in the
Mn-based class of Heuslers and half-Heuslers that contains several conventional
and half metallic ferromagnets, shows a peculiar stability of its magnetic
order in high magnetic fields. Density functional based studies reveal an
unusual nature of its unstable (and therefore unseen) paramagnetic state, which
for one electron less (CuMnSn, for example) would be a zero gap semiconductor
(accidentally so) between two sets of very narrow, topologically separate bands
of Mn 3d character. The extremely flat Mn 3d bands result from the environment:
Mn has four tetrahedrally coordinated Cu atoms whose 3d states lie well below
the Fermi level, and the other four tetrahedrally coordinated sites are empty,
leaving chemically isolated Mn 3d states. The AFM phase can be pictured
heuristically as a self-doped CuMnSb compensated semimetal
with heavy mass electrons and light mass holes, with magnetic coupling
proceeding through Kondo and/or antiKondo coupling separately through the two
carrier types. The ratio of the linear specific heat coefficient and the
calculated Fermi level density of states indicates a large mass enhancement
, or larger if a correlated band structure is taken as the
reference
Conserved superenergy currents
We exploit once again the analogy between the energy-momentum tensor and the
so-called ``superenergy'' tensors in order to build conserved currents in the
presence of Killing vectors. First of all, we derive the divergence-free
property of the gravitational superenergy currents under very general
circumstances, even if the superenergy tensor is not divergence-free itself.
The associated conserved quantities are explicitly computed for the
Reissner-Nordstrom and Schwarzschild solutions. The remaining cases, when the
above currents are not conserved, lead to the possibility of an interchange of
some superenergy quantities between the gravitational and other physical fields
in such a manner that the total, mixed, current may be conserved. Actually,
this possibility has been recently proved to hold for the Einstein-Klein-Gordon
system of field equations. By using an adequate family of known exact
solutions, we present explicit and completely non-obvious examples of such
mixed conserved currents.Comment: LaTeX, 19 pages; improved version adding new content to the second
section and some minor correction
Electronic Structure and Charge Dynamics of Huesler Alloy Fe2TiSn Probed by Infrared and Optical Spectroscopy
We report on the electrodynamics of a Heusler alloy Fe2TiSn probed over four
decades in energy: from the far infrared to the ultraviolet. Our results do not
support the suggestion of Kondo-lattice behavior inferred from specific heat
measurements. Instead, we find a conventional Drude-like response of free
carriers, with two additional absorption bands centered at around 0.1 and 0.87
eV. The latter feature can be interpreted as excitations across a pseudogap, in
accord with band structure calculations.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure
Construction and enlargement of traversable wormholes from Schwarzschild black holes
Analytic solutions are presented which describe the construction of a
traversable wormhole from a Schwarzschild black hole, and the enlargement of
such a wormhole, in Einstein gravity. The matter model is pure radiation which
may have negative energy density (phantom or ghost radiation) and the
idealization of impulsive radiation (infinitesimally thin null shells) is
employed.Comment: 22 pages, 7 figure
Unconstrained Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity with thermo-elastic sources
A new formulation of the Hamiltonian dynamics of the gravitational field
interacting with(non-dissipative) thermo-elastic matter is discussed. It is
based on a gauge condition which allows us to encode the six degrees of freedom
of the ``gravity + matter''-system (two gravitational and four
thermo-mechanical ones), together with their conjugate momenta, in the
Riemannian metric q_{ij} and its conjugate ADM momentum P^{ij}. These variables
are not subject to constraints. We prove that the Hamiltonian of this system is
equal to the total matter entropy. It generates uniquely the dynamics once
expressed as a function of the canonical variables. Any function U obtained in
this way must fulfil a system of three, first order, partial differential
equations of the Hamilton-Jacobi type in the variables (q_{ij},P^{ij}). These
equations are universal and do not depend upon the properties of the material:
its equation of state enters only as a boundary condition. The well posedness
of this problem is proved. Finally, we prove that for vanishing matter density,
the value of U goes to infinity almost everywhere and remains bounded only on
the vacuum constraints. Therefore the constrained, vacuum Hamiltonian (zero on
constraints and infinity elsewhere) can be obtained as the limit of a ``deep
potential well'' corresponding to non-vanishing matter. This unconstrained
description of Hamiltonian General Relativity can be useful in numerical
calculations as well as in the canonical approach to Quantum Gravity.Comment: 29 pages, TeX forma
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