Effective stress-energy tensors, self-force and broken symmetry

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/13/135002MaRDI QIDQ3581329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Abraham I. Harte

Publication date 16 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4614

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic censorshipEinstein's equationsspace-time singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

Abstract: Deriving the motion of a compact mass or charge can be complicated by the presence of large self-fields. Simplifications are known to arise when these fields are split into two parts in the so-called Detweiler-Whiting decomposition. One component satisfies vacuum field equations, while the other does not. The force and torque exerted by the (often ignored) inhomogeneous "S-type" portion is analyzed here for extended scalar charges in curved spacetimes. If the geometry is sufficiently smooth, it is found to introduce effective shifts in all multipole moments of the body's stress-energy tensor. This greatly expands the validity of statements that the homogeneous R field determines the self-force and self-torque up to renormalization effects. The forces and torques exerted by the S field directly measure the degree to which a spacetime fails to admit Killing vectors inside the body. A number of mathematical results related to the use of generalized Killing fields are therefore derived, and may be of wider interest. As an example of their application, the effective shift in the quadrupole moment of a charge's stress-energy tensor is explicitly computed to lowest nontrivial order.

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