Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-12-28
Grav.Cosmol.14:241-247,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
10.1134/S0202289308030067
There are many ways of embedding a 4D spacetime in a given higher-dimensional manifold while, satisfying the field equations. In this work we extend and generalize a recent paper by Mashhoon and Wesson ({\it Gen. Rel. Gravit.} {\bf 39}, 1403(2007)) by showing different ways of embedding a solution of the 4D Einstein equations, in vacuum with a cosmological constant, in a Ricci-flat, as well as in an anti-de Sitter, 5D manifold. These embeddings lead to different physics in 4D. In particular, to non-equivalent cosmological terms as functions of the extra coordinate. We study the motion of test particles for different embeddings and show that there is a complete equivalence between several definitions for the effective mass of test particles measured in 4D, obtained from different theoretical approaches like the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism and the principle of least action. For the case under consideration, we find that the effective mass observed in 4D is the same regardless of whether we consider null or non-null motion in 5D.
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