Gravitational instantons from minimal surfaces

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/2/024zbMATH Open0966.83012arXivgr-qc/9812007OpenAlexW3125851716MaRDI QIDQ4699863FDOQ4699863

Y. Nutku, J. Kalayci, A. N. Aliev, M. Hortaçsu

Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

Abstract: Physical properties of gravitational instantons which are derivable from minimal surfaces in 3-dimensional Euclidean space are examined using the Newman-Penrose formalism for Euclidean signature. The gravitational instanton that corresponds to the helicoid minimal surface is investigated in detail. This is a metric of Bianchi Type $VI{I}_0$, or E(2) which admits a hidden symmetry due to the existence of a quadratic Killing tensor. It leads to a complete separation of variables in the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for geodesics, as well as in Laplace's equation for a massless scalar field. The scalar Green function can be obtained in closed form which enables us to calculate the vacuum fluctuations of a massless scalar field in the background of this instanton.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812007

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein's equationsgravitational instantonminimal surfaceNewman-Penrose formalismhelicoidself-dual solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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