Application of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to lensing in the NUT metric

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02766-ZzbMATH Open1466.83012arXiv2008.10093OpenAlexW3081365237MaRDI QIDQ828800FDOQ828800

Authors: Mourad Halla, Volker Perlick 

Publication date: 5 May 2021

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

Abstract: We show with the help of Fermat's principle that every lightlike geodesic in the NUT metric projects to a geodesic of a two-dimensional Riemannian metric which we call the optical metric. The optical metric is defined on a (coordinate) cone whose opening angle is determined by the impact parameter of the lightlike geodesic. We show that, surprisingly, the optical metrics on cones with different opening angles are locally (but not globally) isometric. With the help of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem we demonstrate that the deflection angle of a lightlike geodesic is determined by an area integral over the Gaussian curvature of the optical metric. A similar result is known to be true for static and spherically symmetric spacetimes. The generalisation to the NUT spacetime, which is neither static nor spherically symmetric (at least not in the usual sense), is rather non-trivial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10093

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingGauss-Bonnet theoremFermat principleNUT spacetimeoptical metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

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