Separable geodesic action slicing in stationary spacetimes

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Mar 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012gregr..44..603b&link_type=abstract

General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 44, Issue 3, pp.603-621

Physics

Spacetime Slicing, Painlevé-Gullstrand Coordinates, Separable Geodesics

Scientific paper

A simple observation about the action for geodesics in a stationary spacetime with separable geodesic equations leads to a natural class of slicings of that spacetime whose orthogonal geodesic trajectories represent the world lines of freely falling fiducial observers. The time coordinate function can then be taken to be the observer proper time, leading to a unit lapse function, although the time coordinate lines still follow Killing trajectories to retain the explicitly stationary nature of the coordinate grid. This explains some of the properties of the original Painlevé-Gullstrand coordinates on the Schwarzschild spacetime and their generalization to the Kerr-Newman family of spacetimes, reproducible also locally for the Gödel spacetime. For the static spherically symmetric case the slicing can be chosen to be intrinsically flat with spherically symmetric geodesic observers, leaving all the gravitational field information in the shift vector field.

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