Ray trajectories for a spinning cosmic string and a manifestation of self-cloaking

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2010.09.053MaRDI QIDQ418607zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tom H. Anderson, Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Publication date 29 May 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3113

zbMATH Keywords

metamaterialinvisibilityray tracingcosmic spinning stringTamm medium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometric optics (78A05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: A study of ray trajectories was undertaken for the Tamm medium which represents the spacetime of a cosmic spinning string, under the geometric-optics approximation. Our numerical studies revealed that: (i) rays never cross the string's boundary; (ii) the Tamm medium supports evanescent waves in regions of phase space that correspond to those regions of the string's spacetime which could support closed timelike curves; and (iii) a spinning string can be slightly visible while a non-spinning string is almost perfectly invisible.

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