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SPACETIME METRIC DEFORMATIONS. Cosimo Stornaiolo INFN-Sezione di Napoli MG 12 Paris 12-18 July 2009. Papers. D. Pugliese, Deformazioni di metriche spazio-temporali, tesi di laurea quadriennale, relatori S. Capozziello e C. Stornaiolo - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Cosimo StornaioloINFN-Sezione di Napoli
MG 12 Paris12-18 July 2009
SPACETIME METRIC DEFORMATIONS
D. Pugliese, Deformazioni di metriche spazio-temporali, tesi di laurea quadriennale, relatori S. Capozziello e C. Stornaiolo
S. Capozziello e C. Stornaiolo, Space-Time deformations as extended conformal transformations
International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics 5, 185-196 (2008)
Papers
In General Relativity, we usually deal with Exact solutions to describe cosmology, black
holes, motions in the solar system, astrophysical objects
Approximate solutions to deal with gravitational waves, gravitomagnetic effects, cosmological perturbations, post-newtonian parametrization
Numerical simulations
Introduction
Nature of dark matter and of dark energyUnknown distribution of (dark) matter and (dark) energyPioneer anomalyRelation of the geometries between the different scalesWhich theory describes best gravitation at different
scalesAlternative theoriesApproximate symmetries or complete lack of symmetrySpacetime inhomogeneitiesBoundary conditionsInitial conditions
The ignorance of the real structure of spacetime
Let us try to define a general covariant way to deal with the previous list of problems.
In an arbitrary space time, an exact solution of Einstein equations, can only describe in an approximative way the real structure of the spacetime geometry.
Our purpose is to encode our ignorance of the correct spacetime geometry by deforming the exact solution with scalar fields.
Let us see how………
Deformation to parameterize the ignorance of the real spacetime geometry?
Let us considerthe surface of the earth, we can consider it as a (rotating) sphere
But this is an approximation
An example of geometrical deformations in 2D: the earth surface
Measurments indicate that the earth surface is better described by an oblate ellipsoid
Mean radius 6,371.0 km Equatorial radius 6,378.1 km Polar radius 6,356.8 km Flattening 0.0033528
But this is still an approximation
The Earth is an oblate ellipsoid
The shape of the Geoid
We can improve our measurements an find out that the shape of the earth is not exactly described by any regular solid. We call the geometrical solid representing the Earth a geoid 1. Ocean
2. Ellipsoid3. Local plumb4. Continent5. Geoid
An altimetric image of the geoid
Comparison between the deviations of the geoid from an idealized oblate ellipsoid and the deviations of the CMB from the homogeneity i.e. the departure of spacetime from homogeneity at the last scattering epoch.
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It is well known that all the two dimensional metrics are related by conformal transformations, and are all locally conform to the flat metric
Deformations in 2D
2
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
( )
( sin ) , ( sin )
in the case of the deformation of a sphere we haveg x g
g R d d g R d d
The question is if there exists an intrinsic and covariant way to relate similarly metrics in dimensions
A generalization?
2n
In an n-dimensional manifold with metric
the metric has
degrees of freedom
Riemann theorem
( 1)2
n nf
In 2002 Coll, Llosa and Soler (General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 34, 269, 2002) showed that any metric in a 3D space(time) is related to a constant curvature metric by the following relation
An attempt to define deformation in three dimensions
2ab ab a bg h
Question: How can we generalize the conformal transformations in 2 dimensions an Coll and coworkers deformation in 3 dimensions to more than 3 dimension spacetimes?
Deformations in more than three dimensions
Let us see if we can generalize the preceding result possibly expressing the deformations in terms of scalar fields as for conformal transformations. What do we mean by metric deformation? Let us first consider the decomposition of a metric in tetrad vectors
Our definition of metric deformation
A Bab ABg e e ( ) ( )A C B D
ab AB C Dg x e x e
( ) ( )A BAB C D CDx x
( ) ( )A C B Dab AB C a D bg x e x e
The metric deformation
( ) ( )A AB Bx x
abg~ abg
are matrices of scalar fields in spacetime,
Deforming matrices are scalars with respect to coordinate transformations.
Properties of the deforming matrices
( )AB x
A particular class of deformations is given by
which represent the conformal transformations
This is one of the first examples of deformations known from literature. For this reason we can consider deformations as an extension of conformal transformations.
Conformal transformations
AB
AB xx )()(
abDB
DCA
CABab gxeeg )(~ 2
Conformal transformations given by a change of coordinates flat (and open) Friedmann metrics and Einsteiin (static) universe
Conformal transformation that cannot be obtained by a change of coordinates closed Friedmann metric
Example of conformal transformations
If the metric tensors of two spaces and
are related by the relation
we say that is the deformation of (cfr. L.P. Eisenhart, Riemannian Geometry, pag.
89)
More precise definition of deformation
M
M~
: A B A B C DAB AB C Dg e e g e e
M
M
M
They are not necessarily realThey are not necessarily continuos (so that we may
associate spacetimes with different topologies)They are not coordinate transformations (one should
transform correspondingly all the covariant and contravariant tensors), i.e. they are not diffeomorphisms of a spacetime M to itself
They can be composed to give successive deformations
They may be singular in some point, if we expect to construct a solution of the Einstein equations from a Minkowski spacetime
Properties of the deforming matrices
Second deforming matrix
( )
( ) ( )
AB
A B C Dab AB C D
x
g x x e e G
By lowering its index with a Minkowski matrix we can decompose the first deforming matrix
C
AC B AB ABAB
AB AB AB AB
B B B BA A A A
Substituting in the expression for deformation
the second deforming matrix takes the form
Inserting the tetrad vectors to obtain the metric it follows that (next slide)
Expansion of the second deforming matrix
2 2 C D
AB AB AB CD A B
C D C D C DCD A B A B CD A B
G
Reconstructing a deformed metric leads to
This is the most general relation between two metrics.
This is the third way to define a deformation
Tensorial definition of the deformations
2ab ab abg g
To complete the definition of a deformation we need to define the deformation of the corresponding contravariant tensor
Deforming the contravariant metric
abg 1 1C Dab AB a b
C DA Bg e e
We are now able to define the connections
where
and
is a tensor
Deformed connections
c c cab ab abC
2 2 1( ) 22c cd cd
ab d a b ab d a db b ad d abC g g g g
Finally we can define how the curvature tensors are deformed
Deformed Curvature tensors
aed
bce
bed
ace
bcd
aacd
bd
abcd
abc CCCCCCRR ~
aed
dbe
ded
abe
dbd
aabd
dabab CCCCCCRR ~
aeddbe
ded
abe
dbd
aabd
dab
abab
abab CCCCCCgRgRgR ~~~~~
The equations in the vacuum take the form
Einstein equations for the deformed spacetime in the vacuum
0
0
d dab ab d ab a db
e d e dab de db ae
R R C C
C C C C
In presence of matter sources the equations for the deformed metric are of the form
The deformed Einstein equations in presence of deformed matter sources
d d e d e dab ab d ab a db ab de db aeR R C C C C C C
12ab ab abR T g T
1 12 2
d d e d e dd ab a db ab de db ae ab ab ab abC C C C C C T g T T Tg
Conformal transformations Kerr-Schild metricsMetric perturbations: cosmological
perturbations and gravitational waves
Some examples of spacetime metric deformations already present in literature
In our approach the approximation is given by the conditions
This conditions are covariant for three reasons:
1) we are using scalar fields; 2) this objects are adimensional; 3) they are subject only to Lorentz
transformations;
Small deformations or gravitational perturbations
( ) ( )A B AB A Bx x ( ) 1A
B x
A B C Dab ab ab ab AB C D a bg g h g e e
Equations for small deformations
0~ aed
dbe
ded
abe
dbd
aabd
dabab CCCCCCRR
0 aed
dbe
ded
abe
dbd
aabd
d CCCCCC
0dbd
aabd
d CC
2 0a a da bc b c adh R h
The corresponding equations and gauge conditions for the scalar potentials (in a flat spacetime)
2 0
0
0
d C d C C dd A CB A d CB A d CB
ABBA
d C CD d CA B CA d Be
The gauge conditions are no more coordinate conditions. instead they are restrictions in the choice of the perturbing scalars.
The meaning of gauge conditions for the deformations
We have presented the deformation of spacetime metrics as the corrections one has to introduce in the metric in order to deal with our ignorance of the fine spacetime structure.
The use of scalars to define deformation can simplify many conceptual issues
As a result we showed that we can consider a theory of no more than six scalar potentials given in a background geometry
We showed that this scalar field are suitable for a covariant definition for the cosmological perturbations and also for gravitational waves
Using deformations we can study covariantly the • Inhomogeneity and backreaction problems• Cosmological perturbations but also• Gravitational waves in arbitrary spacetimes• Symmetry and approximate symmetric properties of spacetime• The boundary and initial conditions• The relation between GR and alternative gravitational theories
Discussion and Conclusions
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