A TWO-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF FOUR-DIMENSIONAL GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

DOI10.1142/S0218271898000176MaRDI QIDQ4936983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hans-Jürgen Schmidt

Publication date 2 February 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712034

zbMATH Keywords

Birkhoff theoremEinstein-Hilbert LagrangianFriedmann universegravitational waveshidden symmetriesKilling vectorplane-symmetric spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational waves (83C35) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: The Einstein equation in D dimensions, if restricted to the class of space-times possessing n = D - 2 commuting hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vectors, can be equivalently written as metric-dilaton gravity in 2 dimensions with n scalar fields. For n = 2, this results reduces to the known reduction of certain 4-dimensional metrics which include gravitational waves. Here, we give such a representation which leads to a new proof of the Birkhoff theorem for plane-symmetric space--times, and which leads to an explanation, in which sense two (spin zero-) scalar fields in 2 dimensions may incorporate the (spin two-) gravitational waves in 4 dimensions. (This result should not be mixed up with well--known analogous statements where, however, the 4-dimensional space-time is supposed to be spherically symmetric, and then, of course, the equivalent 2-dimensional picture cannot mimic any gravitational waves.) Finally, remarks on hidden symmetries in 2 dimensions are made.

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