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Asymptotic Structure with a positive cosmological constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-08-23 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

This is the second of two papers that study the asymptotic structure of space-times with a non-negative cosmological constant Λ\Lambda. This paper deals with the case Λ>0\Lambda >0. 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 (\scri,hab,Dab)(\scri,h_{ab},D_{ab}), 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 \scri\scri, and the third element is a traceless symmetric tensor field on \scri\scri. We similarly propose a no-incoming radiation criterion based also on the triplet (\scri,hab,Dab)(\scri,h_{ab},D_{ab}) 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 \scri\scri. 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 \scri\scri, consider the limit Λ0\Lambda\rightarrow 0 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

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