Chirality in gravitational and electromagnetic interactions with matter

DOI10.1142/S0219887818400042MaRDI QIDQ4615105zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. W. Tucker, Timothy J. Walton

Publication date 1 February 2019

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08825

zbMATH Keywords

astrophysical jetsgravitational pulseslaserslinearized gravityMinkowski metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Gravitational waves (83C35) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Abstract: It has been suggested that single and double jets observed emanating from certain astrophysical objects may have a purely gravitational origin. We discuss new classes of pulsed gravitational wave solutions to the equation for perturbations of Ricci-flat spacetimes around Minkowski metrics, as models for the genesis of such phenomena. We discuss how these solutions are motivated by the analytic structure of spatially compact finite energy pulse solutions of the source-free Maxwell equations generated from complex chiral eigenmodes of a chirality operator. Complex gravitational pulse solutions to the linearised source-free Einstein equations are classified in terms of their chirality and generate a family of non-stationary real spacetime metrics. Particular members of these families are used as backgrounds in analysing time-like solutions to the geodesic equation for test particles. They are found numerically to exhibit both single and double jet-like features with dimensionless aspect ratios suggesting that it may be profitable to include such backgrounds in simulations of astrophysical jet dynamics from rotating accretion discs involving electromagnetic fields.

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