Models for self-gravitating photon shells and geons

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0531-4zbMATH Open1359.83022arXiv1511.01290OpenAlexW2146348498WikidataQ59607439 ScholiaQ59607439MaRDI QIDQ507739FDOQ507739

Authors: David Fajman, Maximilian Thaller, H. Andréasson 

Publication date: 7 February 2017

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove existence of spherically symmetric, static, self-gravitating photon shells as solutions to the massless Einstein-Vlasov system. The solutions are highly relativistic in the sense that the ratio $2m(r)/r$ is close to $8/9$, where $m(r)$ is the Hawking mass and $r$ is the area radius. In 1955 Wheeler constructed, by numerical means, so called idealized spherically symmetric geons, i.e. solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations for which the energy momentum tensor is spherically symmetric on a time average. The structure of these solutions is such that the electromagnetic field is confined to a thin shell for which the ratio $2m/r$ is close to $8/9$, i.e., the solutions are highly relativistic photon shells. The solutions presented in this work provide an alternative model for photon shells or idealized spherically symmetric geons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01290

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zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Maxwell equationsHawking massEinstein-Vlasov systemgeonsself-gravitating photon shells

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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