A new conformal duality of spherically symmetric space-times
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A contribution linear in r to the gravitational potential can be created by a suitable conformal duality transformation: the conformal factor is 1/(1+r)^2 and r will be replaced by r/(1+r), where r is the Schwarzschild radial coordinate. Thus, every spherically symmetric solution of conformal Weyl gravity is conformally related to an Einstein space. This result finally resolves a long controversy about this topic. As a byproduct, we present an example of a spherically symmetric Einstein space which is a limit of a sequence of Schwarzschild-de Sitter space-times but which fails to be expressable in Schwarzschild coordinates. This example also resolves a long controversy.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9905103,
title = {A new conformal duality of spherically symmetric space-times},
author = {H. -J. Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9905103},
year = {2007}
}
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11 pages, LaTeX, no figures