Geometry of General Hypersurfaces in Spacetime: Junction Conditions

Details Geometry of General Hypersurfaces in Spacetime: Junction Conditions Geometry of General Hypersurfaces in Spacetime: Junction Conditions

2002-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0201054v1

Class.Quant.Grav.10:1865-1897,1993

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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10.1088/0264-9381/10/9/026

We study imbedded hypersurfaces in spacetime whose causal character is allowed to change from point to point. Inherited geometrical structures on these hypersurfaces are defined by two methods: first, the standard rigged connection induced by a rigging vector (a vector not tangent to the hypersurface anywhere); and a second, more physically adapted, where each observer in spacetime induces a new type of connection that we call the rigged metric connection. The generalisation of the Gauss and Codazzi equations are also given. With the above machinery, we attack the problem of matching two spacetimes across a general hypersurface. It is seen that the preliminary junction conditions allowing for the correct definition of Einstein's equations in the distributional sense reduce to the requirement that the first fundamental form of the hypersurface be continuous. The Bianchi identities are then proven to hold in the distributional sense. Next, we find the proper junction conditions which forbid the appearance of singular parts in the curvature. Finally, we derive the physical implications of the junction conditions: only six independent discontinuities of the Riemann tensor are allowed. These are six matter discontinuities at non-null points of the hypersurface. For null points, the existence of two arbitrary discontinuities of the Weyl tensor (together with four in the matter tensor) are also allowed.

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