Recovering the geometry of a flat spacetime from background radiation

DOI10.1007/S00023-013-0300-6MaRDI QIDQ742788zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Bonsante, Jean-Marc Schlenker, Catherine Meusburger

Publication date 19 September 2014

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6966

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropic background radiationfrequency shiftgeometry of a flat spacetimeinitial singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We consider globally hyperbolic flat spacetimes in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions, in which a uniform light signal is emitted on the $r$-level surface of the cosmological time for $ro0$. We show that the frequency of this signal, as perceived by a fixed observer, is a well-defined, bounded function which is generally not continuous. This defines a model with anisotropic background radiation that contains information about initial singularity of the spacetime. In dimension 2+1, we show that this observed frequency function is stable under suitable perturbations of the spacetime, and that, under certain conditions, it contains sufficient information to recover its geometry and topology. We compute an approximation of this frequency function for a few simple examples.

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