Spacetime Embedding Diagrams for Spherically Symmetric Black Holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
We show that it is possible to embed the 1+1 dimensional reduction of certain spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes into 2+1 Minkowski space. The spacetimes of interest (Schwarzschild de-Sitter, Schwarzschild anti de-Sitter, and Reissner-Nordstrom near the outer horizon) represent a class of metrics whose geometries allow for such embeddings. The embedding diagrams have a dynamic character which allows one to represent the motion of test particles. We also analyze various features of the embedding construction, deriving the general conditions under which our procedure provides a smooth embedding. These conditions also yeild an embedding constant related to the surface gravity of the relevant horizon.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0305102,
title = {Spacetime Embedding Diagrams for Spherically Symmetric Black Holes},
author = {John T. Giblin and Donald Marolf and Robert H. Garvey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0305102},
year = {2009}
}