Lensing and imaging by a stealth defect of spacetime
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2019-03-01 v5 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We obtain the geodesics for the simplest possible stealth defect which has a flat spacetime. We, then, discuss the lensing properties of such a defect, and the corresponding image formation. Similar lensing properties can be expected to hold for curved-spacetime stealth defects.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.02465,
title = {Lensing and imaging by a stealth defect of spacetime},
author = {F. R. Klinkhamer and Z. L. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02465},
year = {2019}
}
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17 pages, v5: published version