Comparing metrics at large: harmonic vs quo-harmonic coordinates

Details Comparing metrics at large: harmonic vs quo-harmonic coordinates Comparing metrics at large: harmonic vs quo-harmonic coordinates

2001-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0104019v1

Gen.Rel.Grav. 33 (2001) 1809-1838

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

27 pages, no figures

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To compare two space-times on large domains, and in particular the global structure of their manifolds, requires using identical frames of reference and associated coordinate conditions. In this paper we use and compare two classes of time-like congruences and corresponding adapted coordinates: the harmonic and quo-harmonic classes. Besides the intrinsic definition and some of their intrinsic properties and differences we consider with some detail their differences at the level of the linearized approximation of the field equations. The hard part of this paper is an explicit and general determination of the harmonic and quo-harmonic coordinates adapted to the stationary character of three well-know metrics, Schwarzschild's, Curzon's and Kerr's, to order five of their asymptotic expansions. It also contains some relevant remarks on such problems as defining the multipoles of vacuum solutions or matching interior and exterior solutions.

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