Asymptotic Structure with a positive cosmological constant
Abstract
This is the second of two papers that study the asymptotic structure of space-times with a non-negative cosmological constant . This paper deals with the case . Our approach is founded on the `tidal energies' built with the Weyl curvature and, specifically, we use the asymptotic super-Poynting vector computed from the rescaled Bel-Robinson tensor at infinity to provide a covariant, gauge-invariant, criterion for the existence, or absence, of gravitational radiation at infinity. The fundamental idea we put forward is that the physical asymptotic properties are encoded in , where the first element of the triplet is a 3-dimensional manifold, the second is a representative of a conformal class of Riemannian metrics on , and the third element is a traceless symmetric tensor field on . We similarly propose a no-incoming radiation criterion based also on the triplet and on radiant supermomenta deduced from the rescaled Bel-Robinson tensor too. We search for news tensors and argue that any news-like object must be associated to, and depends on, 2-dimensional cross-sections of . We identify one component of news for every such cross-section and present a general strategy to find the second component. We also introduce the concept of equipped , consider the limit and apply all our results to selected exact solutions of Einstein Field Equations. The full-length abstract is available in the paper.
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@article{arxiv.2105.09167,
title = {Asymptotic Structure with a positive cosmological constant},
author = {Francisco Fernández-Álvarez and José M. M. Senovilla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.09167},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
150 pages, 10 figures, second of two papers, full-length abstract available in the paper, minor corrections, some references added, new table added, accepted version for publication