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Charges and Fluxes on (Perturbed) Non-expanding Horizons

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-03-02 v2

Abstract

In a companion paper we showed that the symmetry group G\mathfrak{G} of non-expanding horizons (NEHs) is a 1-dimensional extension of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group G\mathfrak{G} at I+\mathcal{I}^{+}. For each infinitesimal generator of G\mathfrak{G}, 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 N\mathcal{N}. However, N\mathcal{N} is required to be an NEH or a perturbed NEH. Consequently, charges and fluxes associated with generators of G\mathfrak{G} are free of physically unsatisfactory features that can arise if N\mathcal{N} is allowed to be a general null boundary. In particular, all fluxes vanish if N\mathcal{N} 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}, I±\mathcal{I}^\pm are NEHs in the conformally completed space-time but with an extra structure that reduces G\mathfrak{G} to B\mathfrak{B}. The flux expressions at N\mathcal{N} reflect this synergy between NEHs and I+\mathcal{I}^{+}. In a forthcoming paper, this close relation between NEHs and I+\mathcal{I}^{+} will be used to develop gravitational wave tomography, enabling one to deduce horizon dynamics directly from the waveforms at I+\mathcal{I}^{+}.

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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