Conformal geometry on a class of embedded hypersurfaces in spacetimes

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC45DBMaRDI QIDQ5028376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abbas Mohamed Sherif, Peter K. S. Dunsby

Publication date 9 February 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08753

zbMATH Keywords

conformal transformationconstant scalar curvaturehypersurfacesLRS II spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Numerical methods in conformal mappings (65E10) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In this work, we study various properties of embedded hypersurfaces in $1+1+2$ decomposed spacetimes with a preferred spatial direction, denoted $e^{mu}$, which are orthogonal to the fluid flow velocity of the spacetime and admit a proper conformal transformation. To ensure a non-vanishing positivity scalar curvature of the induced metric, we impose that the scalar curvature of the conformal metric is non-negative and that the associated conformal factor satisfies $hat{varphi}^2+2hathatvarphi>0$, where $hatast$ denotes derivative along $e^{mu}$. Firstly, it is demonstrated that such hypersurface is either Einstein or the twist vanishes on it, and that the scalar curvature of the induced metric is constant. It is then proved that if the hypersurface is compact and of Einstein, and admits a proper conformal transformation, then the hypersurface must be isomorphic to the $3$-sphere, where we make use of well known results on Riemannian manifolds admitting conformal transformations. If the hypersurface is not Einstein and has nowhere vanishing sheet expansion, we show that this conclusion fails. However, with the additional conditions that the scalar curvatures of the induced metric and the conformal metric coincide, the associated conformal factor is strictly negative and the third and higher order derivatives of the conformal factor vanish, the conclusion follows. Furthermore, additional results are obtained under the conditions that the scalar curvature of a metric conformal to the induced metric is also constant. Finally, we consider some of our results in context of locally rotationally symmetric spacetimes and show that, if the hypersurfaces are compact and not of Einstein type, then under specified conditions the hypersurface is isomorphic to the $3$-sphere, where we constructed explicit examples of proper conformal Killing vector fields along $e^{mu}$.

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