Almost Kähler metrics and pp-wave spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S11005-022-01569-4MaRDI QIDQ2674362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amir B. Aazami, Robert Ream

Publication date 12 September 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02825

zbMATH Keywords

almost Kähler metricsplane wave limitpp-waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Abstract: We establish a one-to-one correspondence between a class of strictly almost K"ahler metrics on the one hand, and Lorentzian pp-wave spacetimes on the other; the latter metrics are well known in general relativity, where they model radiation propagating at the speed of light. Specifically, we construct families of complete almost K"ahler metrics by deforming pp-waves via their propagation wave vector. The almost K"ahler metrics we obtain exist in all dimensions $2ngeq4$, and are defined on both $mathbb{R}^{2n}$ and $mathbb{S}^{1}imesmathbb{S}^{1}imesM$, where $M$ is any closed almost K"ahler manifold; they are not warped products, they include noncompact examples with constant negative scalar curvature, and all of them have the property that their fundamental 2-forms are also co-closed with respect to the Lorentzian pp-wave metric. Finally, we further deepen this relationship between almost K"ahler and Lorentzian geometry by utilizing Penrose's "plane wave limit," by which every spacetime has, locally, a pp-wave metric as a limit: using Penrose's construction, we show that in all dimensions $2ngeq4$, every Lorentzian metric admits, locally, an almost K"ahler metric of this form as a limit.

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