The inverse spatial Laplacian of spherically symmetric spacetimes

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA7F61MaRDI QIDQ5369352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karan Fernandes, Amitabha Lahiri

Publication date 17 October 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01442

zbMATH Keywords

de-SitterGreen functionHamiltonian dynamicsPoisson's equationSchwarzschild spacetimespatial Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: In this paper we derive the inverse spatial Laplacian for static, spherically symmetric backgrounds by solving Poisson's equation for a point source. This is different from the electrostatic Green function, which is defined on the four dimensional static spacetime, while the equation we consider is defined on the spatial hypersurface of such spacetimes. This Green function is relevant in the Hamiltonian dynamics of theories defined on spherically symmetric backgrounds, and closed form expressions for the solutions we find are absent in the literature. We derive an expression in terms of elementary functions for the Schwarzschild spacetime, and comment on the relation of this solution with the known Green function of the spacetime Laplacian operator. We also find an expression for the Green function on the static pure de Sitter space in terms of hypergeometric functions.

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