Spherically-symmetric solutions in general relativity using a tetrad-based approach

DOI10.1007/S10714-018-2347-7MaRDI QIDQ1654482zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Do Young Kim, A. N. Lasenby, M. P. Hobson

Publication date 8 August 2018

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06365

zbMATH Keywords

\(R_{\mathrm{h}}=ct\) modelBirkhoff's theoreminhomogeneitiesLemaître-Tolman-Bondi modelspherically symmetric solutionsSwiss cheese model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We present a tetrad-based method for solving the Einstein field equations for spherically-symmetric systems and compare it with the widely-used Lema^itre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) model. In particular, we focus on the issues of gauge ambiguity and the use of comoving versus 'physical' coordinate systems. We also clarify the correspondences between the two approaches, and illustrate their differences by applying them to the classic examples of the Schwarzschild and Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes. We demonstrate that the tetrad-based method does not suffer from the gauge freedoms inherent to the LTB model, naturally accommodates non-zero pressure and has a more transparent physical interpretation. We further apply our tetrad-based method to a generalised form of 'Swiss cheese' model, which consists of an interior spherical region surrounded by a spherical shell of vacuum that is embedded in an exterior background universe. In general, we allow the fluid in the interior and exterior regions to support pressure, and do not demand that the interior region be compensated. We pay particular attention to the form of the solution in the intervening vacuum region and verify the validity of Birkhoff's theorem at both the metric and tetrad level. We then reconsider critically the original theoretical arguments underlying the so-called $R_h=ct$ cosmological model, which has recently received considerable attention. These considerations in turn illustrate the interesting behaviour of a number of 'horizons' in general cosmological models.

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