Generalised splitting of spacetime

DOI10.1007/BF00760433MaRDI QIDQ1194390zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. McManus

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00760433

zbMATH Keywords

ADM formalismGauss-Codazzi-equationsGauss-Weingarten equationslapse functionRicci tensorshift vector

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local submanifolds (53B25) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

Review text

The 3+1 splitting of space-time used by Arnowitt, Deser and Misner (ADM) is generalized to an \(m+n\) splitting. Thus, the foliating spaces are of arbitrary dimension \(m\) in a space-time of dimension \(m+n\). The shift vector and ADM lapse function are appropriately generalized and a derivation of the generalized Gauss-Codazzi and Gauss-Weingarten equations associated with such a splitting are derived. In addition, the projected components of the Ricci tensor are calculated. Finally, the author considers a globally orthogonal \(m+n\) splitting in which case the above equations assume a more manageable and elegant form. As the author acknowledges, such a study of foliating spaces has previously been done but the value of this paper is in its use of a language more accessible to physicists familiar with the ADM formalism.

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