A relativistic model of the topological acceleration effect

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/16/165006MaRDI QIDQ2914966zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jan J. Ostrowski, Boudewijn F. Roukema, Zbigniew P. Buliński

Publication date 21 September 2012

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1596

zbMATH Keywords

multiply connected universetopologically induced accelerationuniverse topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: It has previously been shown heuristically that the topology of the Universe affects gravity, in the sense that a test particle near a massive object in a multiply connected universe is subject to a topologically induced acceleration that opposes the local attraction to the massive object. This effect distinguishes different comoving 3-manifolds, potentially providing a theoretical justification for the Poincar'e dodecahedral space observational hypothesis and a dynamical test for cosmic topology. It is necessary to check if this effect occurs in a fully relativistic solution of the Einstein equations that has a multiply connected spatial section. A Schwarzschild-like exact solution that is multiply connected in one spatial direction is checked for analytical and numerical consistency with the heuristic result. The T${}^1$ (slab space) heuristic result is found to be relativistically correct. For a fundamental domain size of $L$, a slow-moving, negligible-mass test particle lying at distance $x$ along the axis from the object of mass $M$ to its nearest multiple image, where $GM/c^{2}llxllL/2$, has a residual acceleration away from the massive object of $4zeta(3)G(M/L^3),x$, where $zeta(3)$ is Ap'ery's constant. For $Msim10^{1}4M_{o}dot$ and $Lsim10$ to $20hGpc$, this linear expression is accurate to $pm10\mathrm{\%}$ over $3hMpcltapproxxltapprox2hGpc$. Thus, at least in a simple example of a multiply connected universe, the topological acceleration effect is not an artefact of Newtonian-like reasoning, and its linear derivation is accurate over about three orders of magnitude in $x$.

Review text

A Schwarzschild-like exact solution that is multiply connected in one spatial direction is checked for analytical and numerical consistency with the heuristic result. The \(T^1\) (slab space) heuristic result is found to exist in the limit of the Schwarzschild-like, i.e. slab-space solution of the Einstein equations found by Korotkin and Nicolai, with the same linear topological acceleration term as for the simpler calculation. It is shown that at least in a simple example of a multiply connected universe, the topological acceleration effect is not an artefact of Newtonian-like reasoning. A possible method to detect the topological acceleration might follow from considering the effect as a feedback effect from global anisotropy to local anisotropy.

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