Self-gravitating field configurations: The role of the energy-momentum trace

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.11.019MaRDI QIDQ2257256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shahar Hod

Publication date 24 February 2015

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3808

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

Abstract: Static spherically-symmetric matter distributions whose energy-momentum tensor is characterized by a non-negative trace are studied analytically within the framework of general relativity. We prove that such field configurations are necessarily highly relativistic objects. In particular, for matter fields with $Tgeqalphacdothogeq0$ (here $T$ and $ho$ are respectively the trace of the energy-momentum tensor and the energy density of the fields, and $alpha$ is a non-negative constant), we obtain the lower bound $ext{max}_{r}2m(r)/r>(2+2alpha)/(3+2alpha)$ on the compactness (mass-to-radius ratio) of regular field configurations. In addition, we prove that these compact objects necessarily possess (at least) {it two} photon-spheres, one of which exhibits {it stable} trapping of null geodesics. The presence of stable photon-spheres in the corresponding curved spacetimes indicates that these compact objects may be nonlinearly unstable. We therefore conjecture that a negative trace of the energy-momentum tensor is a {it necessary} condition for the existence of stable, soliton-like (regular) field configurations in general relativity.

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