Embeddings for general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/19/195018MaRDI QIDQ3453195zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. Ponce de Leon

Publication date 20 November 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.00148

zbMATH Keywords

embeddings for general relativityKaluza-Klein gravitymodified general relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: We present a systematic approach to embed $n$-dimensional vacuum general relativity in an $(n+1)$-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian spacetime whose source is either a (non)zero cosmological constant or a scalar field minimally-coupled to Einstein gravity. Our approach allows us to generalize a number of results discussed in the literature. We construct {it all} the possible (physically distinct) embeddings in Einstein spaces, including the Ricci-flat ones widely discussed in the literature. We examine in detail their generalization, which - in the framework under consideration - are higher-dimensional spacetimes sourced by a scalar field with flat (constant $eq0$) potential. We use the Kretschmann curvature scalar to show that many embedding spaces have a physical singularity at some finite value of the extra coordinate. We develop several classes of embeddings that are free of singularities, have distinct non-vanishing self-interacting potentials and are continuously connected (in various limits) to Einstein embeddings. We point out that the induced metric possesses scaling symmetry and, as a consequence, the effective physical parameters (e.g., mass, angular momentum, cosmological constant) can be interpreted as functions of the extra coordinate.

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