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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2010.09.053zbMATH Open1238.83060arXiv1007.3113OpenAlexW2110812534MaRDI QIDQ418607FDOQ418607

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

Publication date: 29 May 2012

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

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.

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

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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)

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• Wave diffraction by a cosmic string
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