Charges and Fluxes on (Perturbed) Non-expanding Horizons
Abstract
In a companion paper we showed that the symmetry group of non-expanding horizons (NEHs) is a 1-dimensional extension of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group at . For each infinitesimal generator of , we now define a charge and a flux on NEHs as well as perturbed NEHs. The procedure uses the covariant phase space framework in presence of internal null boundaries . However, is required to be an NEH or a perturbed NEH. Consequently, charges and fluxes associated with generators of are free of physically unsatisfactory features that can arise if is allowed to be a general null boundary. In particular, all fluxes vanish if is an NEH, just as one would hope; and fluxes associated with symmetries representing `time-translations' are positive definite on perturbed NEHs. These results hold for zero as well as non-zero cosmological constant. In the asymptotically flat case, as noted in \cite{akkl1}, are NEHs in the conformally completed space-time but with an extra structure that reduces to . The flux expressions at reflect this synergy between NEHs and . In a forthcoming paper, this close relation between NEHs and will be used to develop gravitational wave tomography, enabling one to deduce horizon dynamics directly from the waveforms at .
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@article{arxiv.2112.05608,
title = {Charges and Fluxes on (Perturbed) Non-expanding Horizons},
author = {Abhay Ashtekar and Neev Khera and Maciej Kolanowski and Jerzy Lewandowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.05608},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
36 pages, 1 figure. Two clarifications and a reference added. Version to appear in JHEP