On the existence of stationary Ricci solitons

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA764AzbMATH Open1373.83054arXiv1610.06178OpenAlexW3104055459WikidataQ126053759 ScholiaQ126053759MaRDI QIDQ4592649FDOQ4592649

Toby Wiseman, Pau Figueras

Publication date: 7 November 2017

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

Abstract: Previously the DeTurck 'trick' has been used to render the stationary Einstein's equation a well posed elliptic system that may be solved numerically by geometric flow or directly. Whilst in the static case for pure gravity with zero or negative cosmological constant there is a simple proof that solving the modified "harmonic" Einstein's equation leads to a solution of the original Einstein system - i.e. not a Ricci soliton - in the stationary case this argument no longer works. Here we provide a new argument that extends the static result to the case of stationary spacetimes that possess a "$t$-$phi$" reflection symmetry. Defining a "soliton charge" from the asymptotic behaviour of the solution, we show that this quantity is always non-positive. Provided asymptotic conditions are chosen such that this charge vanishes, then stationary solitons cannot exist.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06178

zbMATH Keywords

non-existenceRicci solitonsDeTurcknumerical stationary black holeswell posed elliptic system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57)

Cites Work

• Deforming metrics in the direction of their Ricci tensors
• Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A higher dimensional stationary rotating black hole must be axisymmetric
• A numerical approach to finding general stationary vacuum black holes
• Ricci solitons, Ricci flow and strongly coupled CFT in the Schwarzschild Unruh or Boulware vacua
• Symmetries of higher dimensional black holes
• Gravitational Field of a Spinning Mass as an Example of Algebraically Special Metrics
• AdS flowing black funnels: stationary AdS black holes with non-Killing horizons and heat transport in the dual CFT
• A new approach to static numerical relativity and its application to Kaluza–Klein black holes
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Existence of Gradient Kahler-Ricci Solitons
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Rigidity of stationary black holes with small angular momentum on the horizon
• Reflection symmetry in higher dimensional black hole spacetimes
• On the uniqueness of smooth, stationary black holes in vacuum
• Numerical methods for finding stationary gravitational solutions
• Holographic thermal field theory on curved spacetimes

Cited In (17)

• Further evidence for the weak gravity -- cosmic censorship connection
• Holographic dual of hot Polchinski-Strassler quark-gluon plasma
• Attempts at vacuum counterexamples to cosmic censorship in AdS
• Rotating hairy black holes in $\mathrm{AdS}_5 \times S^5 $
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Critical Kaluza-Klein black holes and black strings in D = 10
• Creating a traversable wormhole
• Stirring a black hole
• A deformed IR: a new IR fixed point for four-dimensional holographic theories
• Gregory-Laflamme and superradiance encounter black resonator strings
• Superradiance and black resonator strings encounter helical black strings
• Weak cosmic censorship with SU(2) gauge field and bound on charge-to-mass ratio
• Deforming black holes in AdS
• Black holes entangled by radiation
• To go or not to go with the flow: Hawking radiation at strong coupling
• Rotating black holes in Einstein-aether theory
• Weak cosmic censorship with excited scalar fields and bound on charge-to-mass ratio

This page was built for publication: On the existence of stationary Ricci solitons

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4592649)