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Local and global structure of domain wall space-times

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-04-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a general proof on the equivalence of the comoving-coordinate approach, where the wall is fixed at a constant coordinate variable, and moving-wall approach, where the wall is moving in a background static space-time, in the domain wall space-times without reflection symmetry. We further provide a general procedure to construct the comoving coordinates in the domain wall space-times, where the two regions separated by an infinite thin wall have different cosmological constant Λ\Lambda and Schwartzschild mass MM. By solving Israel's junction conditions in the thin-wall limit, the gravitational fields of spherical, planar and hyperbolic domain wall space-times with M=0 in the two different comoving coordinate systems are obtained. We finally discuss the global structure of these domain wall space-times.

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@article{arxiv.1204.1546,
  title  = {Local and global structure of domain wall space-times},
  author = {Yu-Huei Wu and Chih-Hung Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.1546},
  year   = {2012}
}

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