Einstein’s equations in the presence of signature change

DOI10.1063/1.531730zbMATH Open0864.53050arXivgr-qc/9610064OpenAlexW2104831449MaRDI QIDQ4716478FDOQ4716478

Authors: Tevian Dray 

Publication date: 13 May 1997

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss Einstein's field equations in the presence of signature change using variational methods, obtaining a generalization of the Lanczos equation relating the distributional term in the stress tensor to the discontinuity of the extrinsic curvature. In particular, there is no distributional term in the stress tensor, and hence no surface layer, precisely when the extrinsic curvature is continuous, in agreement with the standard result for constant signature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9610064

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zbMATH Keywords

Palatini formalismsignature changeweak junction conditionDarmois condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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