TOPOLOGICAL REVERBERATIONS IN FLAT SPACE–TIMES

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00002081zbMATH Open0972.83010arXivgr-qc/9903037OpenAlexW2106602480MaRDI QIDQ4523554FDOQ4523554

G. I. Gomero, A. F. F. Teixeira, M. J. Rebouças, Armando Bernui

Publication date: 14 January 2001

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the role played by multiply-connectedness in the time evolution of the energy E(t) of a radiating system that lies in static flat space-time manifolds M_4 whose t=const spacelike sections M_3 are compact in at least one spatial direction. The radiation reaction equation of the radiating source is derived for the case where M_3 has any non-trivial flat topology, and an exact solution is obtained. We also show that when the spacelike sections are multiply-connected flat 3-manifolds the energy E(t) exhibits a reverberation pattern with discontinuities in the derivative of E(t) and a set of relative minima and maxima, followed by a growth of E(t). It emerges from this result that the compactness in at least one spatial direction of Minkowski space-time is sufficient to induce this type of topological reverberation, making clear that our radiating system is topologically fragile. An explicit solution of the radiation reaction equation for the case where M_3 = R^2 x S^1 is discussed, and graphs which reveal how the energy varies with the time are presented and analyzed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9903037

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsflat space-time manifoldstopologies for space-times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15)

Cites Work

• Topology and cosmology
• Stability of discontinuous differential equations with finite number of retarded terms by lyapunov functions
• Topology and fragility in cosmology
• Exact solutions for a simple model of radiation damping

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• Electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations and topologically induced motion of a charged particle

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