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Kottler Spacetime in Isotropic Static Coordinates

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-11-22 v2

Abstract

The Kottler spacetime in isotropic coordinates is known where the metric is time-dependent. In this paper, the Kottler spacetime is given in isotropic static coordinates (i.e., the metric components are time-independent). The metric is found in terms of the Jacobian elliptic functions through coordinate transformations from the Schwarzschild-(anti-)de Sitter metric. In canonical coordinates, it is known that the unparameterized spatially projected null geodesics of the Kottler and Schwarzschild spacetimes coincide. We show that in isotropic static coordinates, the refractive indices of Kottler and Schwarzschild are not proportional, yielding spatially projected null geodesics that are different.

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@article{arxiv.2103.10002,
  title  = {Kottler Spacetime in Isotropic Static Coordinates},
  author = {R Solanki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.10002},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages, 2 figures; a section on parameterization, two appendices and six footnotes added, four typos corrected

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