A simple family of analytical trumpet slices of the Schwarzschild spacetime

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/11/117001zbMATH Open1325.83016arXiv1403.5484OpenAlexW3100495756MaRDI QIDQ4979652FDOQ4979652

Thomas W. Baumgarte, Kenneth A. Dennison

Publication date: 24 June 2014

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

Abstract: We describe a simple family of analytical coordinate systems for the Schwarzschild spacetime. The coordinates penetrate the horizon smoothly and are spatially isotropic. Spatial slices of constant coordinate time $t$ feature a trumpet geometry with an asymptotically cylindrical end inside the horizon at a prescribed areal radius $R_0$ (with $0<R_{0}leqM$) that serves as the free parameter for the family. The slices also have an asymptotically flat end at spatial infinity. In the limit $R_0=0$ the spatial slices lose their trumpet geometry and become flat -- in this limit, our coordinates reduce to Painlev'e-Gullstrand coordinates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5484

zbMATH Keywords

Schwarzschild spacetimespacelike hypersurfacesanalytic coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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