Wicked metrics

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB187DzbMATH Open1475.83026arXiv1811.03369OpenAlexW2899523771WikidataQ64298169 ScholiaQ64298169MaRDI QIDQ3380423FDOQ3380423

Authors: Vedran Skrinjar, Alessio Baldazzi, R. Percacci 

Publication date: 28 September 2021

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

Abstract: There are various ways of defining the Wick rotation in a gravitational context. There are good arguments to view it as an analytic continuation of the metric, instead of the coordinates. We focus on one very general definition and argue that it is incompatible with the requirement of preserving the field equations and the symmetries at global level: in some cases the Euclidean metric cannot be defined on the original Lorentzian manifold but only on a submanifold. This phenomenon is related to the existence of horizons, as illustrated in the cases of the de Sitter and Schwarzschild metrics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03369

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityde Sitter spaceSchwarzschild spacetimeKilling vectorsWick rotation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57)

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