The bizarre anti-de Sitter spacetime

DOI10.1142/S0219887816300166zbMATH Open1352.83007arXiv1611.01118OpenAlexW3100700999WikidataQ112155471 ScholiaQ112155471MaRDI QIDQ2830962FDOQ2830962

Authors: Leszek M. Sokołowski 

Publication date: 1 November 2016

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Anti--de Sitter spacetime is important in general relativity and modern field theory. We review its geometrical features and properties of light signals and free particles moving in it. Applying only elementary tools of tensor calculus we derive extit{ab initio/} all these properties and show that they are really weird. One finds superluminal velocities of light and particles, infinite particle energy necessary to escape at infinite distance and spacetime regions inaccessible by a free fall, though reachable by an accelerated spaceship. Radial timelike geodesics are identical to the circular ones and actually all timelike geodesics are identical to one circle in a fictitious five--dimensional space. Employing the latter space one is able to explain these bizarre features of anti--de Sitter spacetime; in this sense the spacetime is not self--contained. This is not a physical world.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01118

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zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsgeneral relativitygeometry of anti-de Sitter spacetimelike and null geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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