Revisiting the light cone of the Gödel universe

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/4/013MaRDI QIDQ3377882zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors G. Dautcourt, M. Abdel-Megied

Publication date 29 March 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511015, http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-4C7B-8

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsGödel universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The structure of a light cone in the Goedel universe is studied. We derive the intrinsic cone metric, calculate the rotation coefficients of the ray congruence forming the cone, determine local differential invariants up to second order, describe the crossover (keel) singularities and give a first discussion of its focal points. Contrary to many rotation coefficients, some inner differential invariants attain simple finite standard values at focal singularities.

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