Complete affine connection in the causal boundary: static, spherically symmetric spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2187-XzbMATH Open1358.83009OpenAlexW2562795343MaRDI QIDQ520110FDOQ520110

Authors Steven (Stacey) G. Harris

Publication date 3 April 2017

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03195

zbMATH Keywords

singularityconformal boundaryaffine connectioncausal boundarycomplete connectionfuture null infinity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: The boundary at $Cal{I}^{+}$, future null infinity, for a standard static, spherically symmetric spactime is examined for possible linear connections. Two independent methods are employed, one for treating $Cal{I}^{+}$ as the future causal boundary, and one for treating it as a conformal boundary (the latter is subsumed in the former, which is of greater generality). Both methods provide the same result: a constellation of various possible connections, depending on an arbitrary choice of a certain function, a sort of gauge freedom in obtaining a natural connection on $Cal{I}^{+}$; choosing that function to be constant (for instance) results in a complete connection. Treating $Cal{I}^{+}$ as part of the future causal boundary, the method is to impute affine connections on null hypersurfaces going out to $Cal{I}^{+}$, in terms of a transverse vector field on each null hypersurface (there is much gauge freedom on choice of the transverse vector fields). Treating $Cal{I}^{+}$ as part of a conformal boundary, the method is to make a choice of conformal factor that makes the boundary totally geodesic in the enveloping manifold (there is much gauge freedom in choice of that conformal factor). Similar examination is made of other boundaries, such as timelike infinity and timelike and spacelike singularities. These are much simpler, as they admit a unique connection from a similar limiting process (i.e., no gauge freedom); and that connection is complete.

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