Vertex operator solutions of 2d dimensionally reduced gravity

DOI10.1007/S002200050776MaRDI QIDQ1976643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Denis Bernard, Nicolas Regnault

Publication date 18 December 2000

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/solv-int/9902017

zbMATH Keywords

2d dimensionally reduced gravityduality propertiesErnst equationsgeneral relativityintegrable systemsvacuum Einstein equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: We apply algebraic and vertex operator techniques to solve two dimensional reduced vacuum Einstein's equations. This leads to explicit expressions for the coefficients of metrics solutions of the vacuum equations as ratios of determinants. No quadratures are left. These formulas rely on the identification of dual pairs of vertex operators corresponding to dual metrics related by the Kramer-Neugebauer symmetry.

Review text

This article discusses the integrable case of the vacuum Einstein equations in spacetimes with two surface orthogonal Killing vectors. The field equations reduce to the Ernst equations which are studied in the hyperbolic case which describes e.g.\ colliding gravitational waves. Vertex operator methods are used to construct a class of solutions given in terms of ratios of determinants of \(n\times n\) matrices with a finite number of free parameters. An extension to infinite \(n\) is possible with the use of Fredholm determinants. The explicit form of the solution is obtained by solving a factorization problem which was left open in a previous work with the help of the duality properties of the Ernst equations. This makes it possible to apply vertex operator methods to the Ernst equations though the associated linear system in the Belinskii-Zakharov approach has so-called moving poles.

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