Second order perturbations of relativistic membranes in curved spacetime
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-01-07 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
A manifestly covariant equation is derived to describe the second order perturbations in topological defects and membranes on arbitrary curved background spacetimes. This, on one hand, generalizes work on macroscopic strings in Minkowski spacetime and introduces a framework for studing in a precise manner membranes behavior near the black hole horizon and on the other hand, introduces a more general framework for examining the stability of topological defects in curved spacetimes.
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@article{arxiv.1404.4166,
title = {Second order perturbations of relativistic membranes in curved spacetime},
author = {V. Kiosses and A. Nicolaidis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.4166},
year = {2019}
}
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8 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/9411060 by other authors