Can one detect a non-smooth null infinity?

Details Can one detect a non-smooth null infinity? Can one detect a non-smooth null infinity?

2001-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0108049v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 18 (2001) 4311-4316

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

6 pages, to appear in Class. Quantum Grav

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/18/20/310

It is shown that the precession of a gyroscope can be used to elucidate the nature of the smoothness of the null infinity of an asymptotically flat spacetime (describing an isolated body). A model for which the effects of precession in the non-smooth null infinity case are of order $r^{-2}\ln r$ is proposed. By contrast, in the smooth version the effects are of order $r^{-3}$. This difference should provide an effective criterion to decide on the nature of the smoothness of null infinity.

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