Local and global gravitational aspects of domain wall space-times

Details Local and global gravitational aspects of domain wall space-times Local and global gravitational aspects of domain wall space-times

1993-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9306005v1

Phys.Rev.D48:2613-2634,1993

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

UPR-565-T, 26 REVTEX pages, 10 figures available upon request

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.48.2613

Local and global gravitational effects induced by eternal vacuum domain walls are studied. We concentrate on thin walls between non-equal and non-positive cosmological constants on each side of the wall. These vacuum domain walls fall in three classes depending on the value of their energy density $\sigma$: (1)\ extreme walls with $\sigma = \sigma_{{\text{ext}}}$ are planar, static walls corresponding to supersymmetric configurations, (2)\ non-extreme walls with $\sigma = \sigma_{{\text{non}}} > \sigma_{{\text{ext}}}$ correspond to expanding bubbles with observers on either side of the wall being {\em inside\/} the bubble, and (3)\ ultra-extreme walls with $\sigma = \sigma_{{\text{ultra}}} < \sigma_{{\text{ext}}}$ represent the bubbles of false vacuum decay. On the sides with less negative cosmological constant, the extreme, non-extreme, and ultra-extreme walls exhibit no, repulsive, and attractive effective ``gravitational forces,'' respectively. These ``gravitational forces'' are global effects not caused by local curvature. Since the non-extreme wall encloses observers on both sides, the supersymmetric system has the lowest gravitational mass accessable to outside observers. It is conjectured that similar positive mass protection occurs in all physical systems and that no finite negative mass object can exist inside the universe. We also discuss the global space-time structure of these singularity free space-times and point out intriguing analogies with the causal structure of black holes.

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