scholarly journals String clouds and radiation flows as sources of gravity in static or rotating cylinders

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 2040004 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. Bronnikov

Static and stationary cylindrically symmetric space-times in general relativity are considered, supported by distributions of cosmic strings stretched in the azimuthal ([Formula: see text]), longitudinal ([Formula: see text]) or radial ([Formula: see text]) directions or and by pairs of mutually opposite radiation flows in any of these directions. For such systems, exact solutions are obtained and briefly discussed, except for radial strings (a stationary solution for them is not found); it is shown that static solutions with [Formula: see text]- and [Formula: see text]-directed radiation flows do not exist while for [Formula: see text]-directed strings a solution is only possible with negative energy density. Almost all solutions under discussion contain singularities, and all stationary solutions have regions with closed timelike curves, hence, most probably, only their well-behaved regions admit application to real physical situations.

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (17) ◽  
pp. 1105-1111 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS A. ANCHORDOQUI ◽  
SANTIAGO E. PEREZ BERGLIAFFA ◽  
MARTA L. TROBO ◽  
GRACIELA S. BIRMAN

We present here three new exact solutions of Brans–Dicke theory for a stationary geometry with cylindrical symmetry in the presence of matter in rigid rotation with [Formula: see text]. All the solutions have eternal closed timelike curves in some region of space–time which has a size that depends on ω. Moreover, two of them do not go over a solution of general relativity in the limit ω→∞.


It is well known that a spherically symmetric imploding cold body collapses into a space-time singularity in general relativity. The singularity does not arise, however, in the modification of the theory proposed in C -field cosmology. Although the C -field has been used to represent creation of matter, the prevention of singularities does not depend on the creation property of the field, but on its negative energy density. It does not seem that singularities can be prevented except by a negative energy field. Internal pressures of the ordinary kind fail to provide support against gravitation provided the mass of the body is sufficiently large.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas Parmentier

Abstract We demonstrate that all rigidly rotating strings with center of mass at the origin of the dS3 static patch satisfy the Higuchi bound. This extends the observation of Noumi et al. for the open GKP-like string to all solutions of the Larsen-Sanchez class. We argue that strings violating the bound end up expanding towards the horizon and provide a numerical example. Adding point masses to the open string only increases the mass/spin ratio. For segmented strings, we write the conserved quantities, invariant under Gubser’s algebraic evolution equation, in terms of discrete lightcone coordinates describing kink collisions. Randomly generated strings are found to have a tendency to escape through the horizon that is mostly determined by their energy. For rapidly rotating segmented strings with mass/spin < 1, the kink collisions eventually become causally disconnected. Finally we consider the scenario of cosmic strings captured by a black hole in dS and find that horizon friction can make the strings longer.


2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (05) ◽  
pp. 885-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
HÜSNÜ BAYSAL

We study the consequences of the existence of spacelike conformal Killing vectors (SpCKV) parallel to xa for cosmic strings and string fluid in the context of general relativity. The inheritance symmetries of the cosmic strings and string fluid are discussed in the case of SpCKV. Furthermore we examine proper homothetic spacelike Killing vectors for the cosmic strings and string fluid.


1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (38) ◽  
pp. 3069-3072
Author(s):  
L. C. GARCIA DE ANDRADE

Negative energy densities in spinning matter sources of non-Riemannian ultrastatic traversable wormholes require the spin energy density to be higher than the negative pressure or the radial tension. Since the radial tension necessary to support wormholes is higher than the spin density in practice, it seems very unlikely that wormholes supported by torsion may exist in nature. This result corroborates earlier results by Soleng against the construction of the closed time-like curves (CTC) in space–time geometries with spin and torsion. It also agrees with earlier results by Kerlick according to which Einstein–Cartan (EC) gravity torsion sometimes enhance the gravitational collapse instead of avoiding it.


2000 ◽  
Vol 09 (05) ◽  
pp. 531-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEDRO F. GONZÁLEZ-DÍAZ

A link between the possibility of extending a geodesically incomplete kinked spacetime to a spacetime which is geodesically complete and the energy conditions is discussed for the case of a cylindrically-symmetric spacetime kink. It is concluded that neither the strong nor the weak energy condition can be satisfied in the four-dimensional example, though the latter condition may survive on the transversal sections of such a spacetime. It is also shown that the matter which propagates quantum-mechanically in a kinked spacetime can always be trapped by closed timelike curves, but signaling connections between that matter and any possible observer can only be made of totally incoherent radiation, so preventing observation of causality violation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold White ◽  
Jerry Vera ◽  
Arum Han ◽  
Alexander R. Bruccoleri ◽  
Jonathan MacArthur

AbstractWhile conducting analysis related to a DARPA-funded project to evaluate possible structure of the energy density present in a Casimir cavity as predicted by the dynamic vacuum model, a micro/nano-scale structure has been discovered that predicts negative energy density distribution that closely matches requirements for the Alcubierre metric. The simplest notional geometry being analyzed as part of the DARPA-funded work consists of a standard parallel plate Casimir cavity equipped with pillars arrayed along the cavity mid-plane with the purpose of detecting a transient electric field arising from vacuum polarization conjectured to occur along the midplane of the cavity. An analytic technique called worldline numerics was adapted to numerically assess vacuum response to the custom Casimir cavity, and these numerical analysis results were observed to be qualitatively quite similar to a two-dimensional representation of energy density requirements for the Alcubierre warp metric. Subsequently, a toy model consisting of a 1 $$\upmu $$ μ m diameter sphere centrally located in a 4 $$\upmu $$ μ m diameter cylinder was analyzed to show a three-dimensional Casimir energy density that correlates well with the Alcubierre warp metric requirements. This qualitative correlation would suggest that chip-scale experiments might be explored to attempt to measure tiny signatures illustrative of the presence of the conjectured phenomenon: a real, albeit humble, warp bubble.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Gabriel Abreu

<p>General Relativity, while ultimately based on the Einstein equations, also allows one to quantitatively study some aspects of the theory without explicitly solving the Einstein equations. These geometrical notions of the theory provide an insight to the nature of more general spacetimes. In this thesis, the Raychaudhuri equation, the choice of the coordinate system, the notions of surface gravity and of entropy, and restrictions on negative energy densities on the form of the Quantum Interest Conjecture, will be discussed. First, using the Kodama vector, a geometrically preferred coordinate system is built. With this coordinate system the usual quantities, such as the Riemann and Einstein tensors, are calculated. Then, the notion of surface gravity is generalized in two different ways. The first generalization is developed considering radial ingoing and outgoing null geodesics, in situations of spherical symmetry. The other generalized surface gravity is a three-vector obtained from the spatial components of the redshifted four acceleration of a suitable set of fiducial observers. This vectorial surface gravity is then used to place a bound on the entropy of both static and rotating horizonless objects. This bound is obtain mostly by classical calculations, with a minimum use of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. Additionally, several improved versions of the Raychaudhuri equation are developed and used in different scenarios, including a two congruence generalization of the equation. Ultimately semiclassical quantum general relativity is studied in the specific form of the Quantum Inequalities, and the Quantum Interest Conjecture. A variational proof of a version of the Quantum Interest Conjecture in (3 + 1)–dimensional Minkowski space is provided.</p>


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