On general-relativistic hydrogen and hydrogenic ions

DOI10.1063/5.0018569MaRDI QIDQ5141045zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Ebru Toprak, Michael K.-H. Kiessling

Publication date 17 December 2020

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08587

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear electromagnetic-vacuum spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Atomic physics (81V45) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: This paper studies how the static non-linear electromagnetic-vacuum spacetime of a point nucleus with negative bare mass affects the self-adjointness of the general-relativistic Dirac Hamiltonian for a test electron, without and with an anomalous magnetic moment. The study interpolates between the previously studied extreme cases of a test electron in (a) the Reissner--Weyl--Nordstr"om spacetime (Maxwell's electromagnetic vacuum), which supports a very strong curvature singularity with negative infinite bare mass, and (b) the Hoffmann spacetime (Born or Born--Infeld's electromagnetic vacuum) with vanishing bare mass, which features the mildest possible curvature singularity. The main conclusion reached is: {on electrostatic spacetimes of a point nucleus with a strictly negative bare mass} (which may be $-infty$) essential self-adjointness fails unless the radial electric field diverges sufficiently fast at the nucleus and the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron is taken into account. Thus on the Hoffmann spacetime with (strictly) negative bare mass the Dirac Hamiltonian of a test electron, with or without anomalous magnetic moment, is not essentially self-adjoint. All these operators have self-adjoint extensions, though, with the usual essential spectrum $(-infty,-mEL{c}^2]cup[mEL{c}^2,infty)$ and an infinite discrete spectrum located in the gap $(-mEL{c}^2,mEL{c}^2)$

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