Particles with spin in stationary flat spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S10711-011-9692-YzbMATH Open1255.83094arXiv1108.1005OpenAlexW2083546789MaRDI QIDQ691083FDOQ691083

Authors: Thierry Barbot, Catherine Meusburger 

Publication date: 29 November 2012

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct stationary flat three-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds with singularities that are obtained from Euclidean surfaces with cone singularities and closed one-forms on these surfaces. In the application to (2+1)-gravity, these spacetimes correspond to models containing massive particles with spin. We analyse their geometrical properties, introduce a generalised notion of global hyperbolicity and classify all stationary flat spacetimes with singularities that are globally hyperbolic in that sense. We then apply our results to (2+1)-gravity and analyse the causality structure of these spacetimes in terms of measurements by observers. In particular, we derive a condition on observers that excludes causality violating light signals despite the presence of closed timelike curves in these spacetimes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1005

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceglobal hyperbolicityflat spacetimeparticle with spincone singularityEuclidean surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Special relativity (83A05) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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