Embedding spacetime via a geodesically equivalent metric of Euclidean signature
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Embedding spacetime via a geodesically equivalent metric of Euclidean signature
zbMATH Open document ID: 1026.83045
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012037418513
author: Rickard Jonsson
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 2003-12-10T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2381
review text: The author considers a two-dimensional Lorentzian metric of the form \(ds^2 = a(x) dr^2 + c(x) dt^2\). He constructs a Riemannian 2-dimensional metric (called dual metric) which has the same geodesic as \(ds^2\). Realizing this dual metric on some surface in the Euclidean 3-space, one can visualize the movement of free particles in the initial Lorentzian 2-space. The dual metric is not unique. The author considers several examples and shows that the construction of a dual metric gives a useful pedagogical tool for elementary lectures on general relativity. A problem of construction of a dual metric for 3-dimensional Lorentzian metric is discussed. In general there is no dual metric even for a diagonal time-independent Lorentzian 3-metric. The author proposes to consider a ``partially dual metric'' which gives a model for geodesics with a fixed energy.
reviewed by: Dmitri Alekseevsky
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C10
zbMATH DE Number: 1705342
zbMATH Keywords: 2-dimensional Lorentz space-time
zbMATH Keywords: projectively equivalent metrics
zbMATH Keywords: embedding
zbMATH Keywords: dual metric
zbMATH Keywords: geodesics
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: 0708.2381
cites work: Spacetime embedding diagrams for black holes
cites work: Optical space of the Reissner-Nordström solutions
OpenAlex ID: W3103079222
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