On the use of the Kodama vector field in spherically symmetric dynamical problems

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/1/006zbMATH Open1087.83007arXivgr-qc/0511052OpenAlexW1988691094MaRDI QIDQ3376119FDOQ3376119

Authors: István Rácz 

Publication date: 20 March 2006

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

Abstract: It is shown that by making use of the Kodama vector field, as a preferred time evolution vector field, in spherically symmetric dynamical systems unexpected simplifications arise. In particular, the evolution equations relevant for the case of a massless scalar field minimally coupled to gravity are investigated. The simplest form of these equations in the 'canonical gauge' are known to possess the character of a mixed first order elliptic-hyperbolic system. The advantages related to the use of the Kodama vector field are two-folded although they show up simultaneously. First, it is found that the true degrees of freedom separate. Second, a subset of the field equations possessing the form of a first order symmetric hyperbolic system for these preferred degrees of freedom is singled out. It is also demonstrated, in the appendix, that the above results generalise straightforwardly to the case of a generic self-interacting scalar field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511052

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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