Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2000-09-14
Int.J.Mod.Phys.D11:1479-1500,2002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Final version, with minor changes, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Scientific paper
10.1142/S021827180200213X
A regularization procedure, that allows one to relate singularities of curvature to those of the Einstein tensor without some of the shortcomings of previous approaches, is proposed. This regularization is obtained by requiring that (i) the density $|det {\bf g}|^{{1/2}}G^a_{b}$, associated to the Einstein tensor $G^a_{b}$ of the regularized metric, rather than the Einstein tensor itself, be a distribution and (ii) the regularized metric be a continuous metric with a discontinuous extrinsic curvature across a non-null hypersurface of codimension one. In this paper, the curvature and Einstein tensors of the geometries associated to point sources in the 2+1-dimensional gravity and the Schwarzschild spacetime are considered. In both examples the regularized metrics are continuous regular metrics, as defined by Geroch and Traschen, with well defined distributional curvature tensors at all the intermediate steps of the calculation. The limit in which the support of these curvature tensors tends to the singular region of the original spacetime is studied and the results are contrasted with the ones obtained in previous works.
Pantoja N. R.
Rago Hector
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