Gravitational kinks in two spacetime dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/7/024zbMATH Open0857.53074arXivgr-qc/9601018OpenAlexW1968496359MaRDI QIDQ4887532FDOQ4887532

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Publication date: 10 October 1996

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

Abstract: The properties of gravitational kinks are studied within some simple models of two dimensional gravity. In spacetimes of cylindrical topology we prove the existence of kinks of constant curvature with arbitrary kink numbers. In $R^{1}imes{R}^1$ spacetimes $m=1$ kink solutions of the equation $R=0$ are found, whereas $|m|>1$ flat kinks are proved not to exist. We give a detailed analysis of the behaviour of gravitational kinks under coordinate transformations. Viewed as nonsingular black holes $|m|>1$ kink solutions are found within a simple dilaton gravity theory. The general form of the potential function is determined from the demand that the theory possesses an arbitrary number of inequivalent kink configurations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9601018

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zbMATH Keywords

potential functiongravitational kinkstwo-dimensional gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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