Note on flat foliations of spherically symmetric spacetimes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-08-31 v3
Abstract
It is known that spherically symmetric spacetimes admit flat spacelike foliations. We point out a simple method of seeing this result via the Hamiltonian constraints of general relativity. The method yields explicit formulas for the extrinsic curvatures of the slicings.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0110068,
title = {Note on flat foliations of spherically symmetric spacetimes},
author = {Viqar Husain and Asghar Qadir and Azad A. Siddiqui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0110068},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
4 pages, to appear in PRD, reference added, typos corrected