Kruskal Coordinates Research Articles

Infinite Quantum Twisting at the Cauchy Horizon of Rotating Black Holes.

We present a numerical calculation of the expectation value of the quantum angular-momentum current flux density for a scalar field in the Unruh state near the inner horizon of a Kerr-de Sitter black hole. Our results indicate that this flux diverges as V_{-}^{-1} in a suitable Kruskal coordinate such that V_{-}=0 at the inner horizon. Depending on the parameter values of the scalar field and black hole that we consider, and depending on the polar angle (latitude), this flux can have different signs. In the near extremal cases considered, the angle average of the expectation value of the quantum angular momentum current flux is of the opposite sign as the angular momentum of the background itself, suggesting that, in the cases considered, quantum effects tend to decrease the total angular momentum of the spheres away from the extremal value. We also numerically calculate the energy flux component, which provides the leading order divergence of the quantum stress energy tensor, dominant over the classical stress energy tensor, at the inner horizon. Taking our expectation value of the quantum stress tensor as the source in the semiclassical Einstein equation, our analysis suggests that the spheres approaching the inner horizon can undergo an infinite twisting due to quantum effects along latitudes separating regions of infinite expansion and contraction.

Moment tracking and their coordinate transformations for macroparticles with an application to plasmas around black holes

Particle-in-cell (PIC) codes usually represent large groups of particles as a single macroparticle. These codes are computationally efficient but lose information about the internal structure of the macroparticle. To improve the accuracy of these codes, this work presents a method in which, as well as tracking the macroparticle, the moments of the macroparticle are also tracked. Although the equations needed to track these moments are known, the coordinate transformations for moments where the space and time coordinates are mixed cannot be calculated using the standard method for representing moments. These coordinate transformations are important in astrophysical plasma, where there is no preferred coordinate system. This work uses the language of Schwartz distributions to calculate the coordinate transformations of moments. Both the moment tracking and coordinate transformation equations are tested by modelling the motion of uncharged particles in a circular orbit around a black hole in both Schwarzschild and Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates. Numerical testing shows that the error in tracking moments is small, and scales quadratically. This error can be improved by including higher order moments. By choosing an appropriate method for using these moments to deposit the charge back onto the grid, a full PIC code can be developed.

How an exact discrete symmetry can preserve black hole information or Turning a black hole inside out

To apply the laws of General Relativity to quantum black holes, one first needs to remove the horizon singularity by means of Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates. This however doubles spacetime, which thereby is equipped with an exact binary symmetry. All particles near a black hole share the same symmetry, and conservation of this symmetry may completely remove the information paradox: the quantum black hole has no interior, or equivalently, the black hole interior is a quantum clone of the exterior region. These observations, totally overlooked in most of the literature on quantum black holes, resolve some issues concerning conservation of information. Some other problems do remain.

Two-point function of a quantum scalar field in the interior region of a Kerr black hole

Quantum field effects on a classical background spacetime may be obtained from the semiclassical equations of General Relativity with the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of the quantum field as a source. This expectation value can be calculated from Hadamard's elementary two-point function, which in practice is given in terms of sums of products of field modes evaluated at two spacetime points. We derive expressions for the two-point function for a massless scalar field in the Unruh state on a Kerr black hole spacetime. Our main result in this paper is a novel expression valid when the two points lie inside the black hole; we also (re-)derive, using a new method, the known expression valid when the two points lie outside the black hole. We achieve these expressions by finding relationships between Unruh modes, defined in terms of the retarded Kruskal coordinate, and Eddington modes, defined in terms of the Eddington coordinates. While our starting expression for the two-point function is written in terms of the Unruh modes, we give our final expression in terms of the Eddington modes, which have the computational advantage that they decompose into factors that obey ordinary differential equations. In an appendix we also derive expressions for the bare mode contributions to the flux components of the stress-energy tensor for a minimally-coupled massless scalar field inside the black hole. Our results thus lay the groundwork for future calculations of quantum effects inside a Kerr black hole.

Quantum Explosions of Black Holes and Thermal Coordinates

The Hawking temperature for a Schwarzschild black hole is T=1/8πM, where M is the black hole mass. This formula is derived for a fixed Schwarzschild background metric, where the mass M could be arbitrary small. Note that, for vanishing M→0, the temperature T becomes infinite. However, the Schwarzschild metric itself is regular when the black hole mass M tends to zero; it is reduced to the Minkowski metric, and there are no reasons to believe that the temperature becomes infinite. We point out that this discrepancy may be due to the fact that the Kruskal coordinates are singular in the limit of the vanishing mass of the black hole. To elucidate the situation, new coordinates for the Schwarzschild metric are introduced, called thermal coordinates, which depend on the black hole mass M and the parameter b. The parameter b specifies the motion of the observer along a special trajectory. The thermal coordinates are regular in the limit of vanishing black hole mass M. In this limit, the Schwarzschild metric is reduced to the Minkowski metric, written in coordinates dual to the Rindler coordinates. Using the thermal coordinates, the Schwarzschild black hole radiation is reconsidered, and it is found that the Hawking formula for temperature is valid only for large black holes, while for small black holes, the temperature is T=1/2π(4M+b). The thermal observer in Minkowski space sees radiation with temperature T=1/2πb, similar to the Unruh effect with non-constant acceleration. The thermal coordinates for more general spherically symmetric metrics, including the Reissner–Nordstrom, de Sitter, and anti-de Sitter, are also considered. In these coordinates, one sees a Planck distribution with constant temperature. One obtains that the thermal Planck distribution of massless particles is not restricted to the cases of black holes or constant acceleration, but is valid for any spherically symmetric metric written in thermal coordinates.

Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates of spherically symmetric solutions in theories of gravity

Understanding the missing matter problem in cosmological phenomena and scales of astrophysical is usually studied by modifying general relativity theory. In this article, we formulated the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate of vacuum modified gravity model in f (R ) theory. The generalization of the field equation was obtained by generalizing Hilbert-Einstein’s action with gravitational Lagrangian in terms of f (r)function. By consider a special class of f(R) theory by taking R = R0 , we found the solution of static spherically symmetric spacetime that was known as de Sitter-Schwarzschild spacetime. The transformation rules were constructed from Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates in f (r)theory of modified general relativity to the Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate in general relativity theory. For λ ≈ 0, the Schwarzschild and Kruskal-Szekeres metric for static spherically symmetric on f (r)theory reduced to the standard Schwarzschild and Kruskal-Szekeres metric on general relativity. We also show the spacetime structure of de Sitter-Schwarzschild and Kruskal-Szekeres coordinate. This work could open a promising way to understand some features of a black hole in the f (r)theory of gravity.

Non-Singular Coordinates of Some Black Hole in f(R) Gravity

Non-singular Kruskal-like coordinates of some black holes space-times in f (R) gravity are presented in this research paper, and are also removed by establishing Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates for Non-extremal case. Carter-like coordinates can also be built for its extreme case.

Null hypersurfaces in Kerr–Newman–AdS black hole and super-entropic black hole spacetimes

A three-dimensional light-like foliation of a spacetime geometry is one particular way of studying its light cone structure and has important applications in numerical relativity. In this paper, we execute such a foliation for the Kerr–Newman–AdS black hole geometry and compare it with the lightlike foliations of the Kerr–AdS and Kerr–Newman black holes. We derive the equations that govern this slicing and study their properties. In particular, we find that these null hypersurfaces develop caustics inside the inner horizon of the Kerr–Newman–AdS black hole, in strong contrast to the Kerr–AdS case. We then take the ultra-spinning limit of the Kerr–Newman–AdS spacetime, leading to what is known as a super-entropic black hole, and show that the null hypersurfaces develop caustics at a finite distance outside the event horizon of this black hole. As an application, we construct Kruskal coordinates for both the Kerr–Newman–AdS black hole and its ultra-spinning counterpart.

Null hypersurfaces in Kerr–(A)dS spacetimes

For many purposes, a three-dimensional foliation of spacetime is more advantageous to understanding its light cone structure. We derive the equations describing such foliations for the Kerr geometry with non-zero cosmological constant, and show that they reduce to null hypersurfaces in vacuum (anti-)de Sitter spacetime in the limit of zero mass. Furthermore, we find that these null hypersurfaces are free of caustics everywhere for r > 0. Our construction has applications in numerical studies of rotating black holes, and in defining Kruskal coordinates for rotating black holes with non-zero cosmological constant.

A SUPER VOXEL-BASED RIEMANNIAN GRAPH FOR MULTI SCALE SEGMENTATION OF LIDAR POINT CLOUDS

Abstract. Automatically segmenting LiDAR points into respective independent partitions has become a topic of great importance in photogrammetry, remote sensing and computer vision. In this paper, we cast the problem of point cloud segmentation as a graph optimization problem by constructing a Riemannian graph. The scale space of the observed scene is explored by an octree-based over-segmentation with different depths. The over-segmentation produces many super voxels which restrict the structure of the scene and will be used as nodes of the graph. The Kruskal coordinates are used to compute edge weights that are proportional to the geodesic distance between nodes. Then we compute the edge-weight matrix in which the elements reflect the sectional curvatures associated with the geodesic paths between super voxel nodes on the scene surface. The final segmentation results are generated by clustering similar super voxels and cutting off the weak edges in the graph. The performance of this method was evaluated on LiDAR point clouds for both indoor and outdoor scenes. Additionally, extensive comparisons to state of the art techniques show that our algorithm outperforms on many metrics.

Generalized transformations and coordinates for static spherically symmetric general relativity.

We examine a static, spherically symmetric solution of the empty space field equations of general relativity with a non-orthogonal line element which gives rise to an opportunity that does not occur in the standard derivations of the Schwarzschild solution. In these derivations, convenient coordinate transformations and dynamical assumptions inevitably lead to the Schwarzschild solution. By relaxing these conditions, a new solution possibility arises and the resulting formalism embraces the Schwarzschild solution as a special case. The new solution avoids the coordinate singularity associated with the Schwarzschild solution and is achieved by obtaining a more suitable coordinate chart. The solution embodies two arbitrary constants, one of which can be identified as the Newtonian gravitational potential using the weak field limit. The additional arbitrary constant gives rise to a situation that allows for generalizations of the Eddington–Finkelstein transformation and the Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates.

The effective Tolman temperature in curved spacetimes

We review a recently proposed effective Tolman temperature and present its applications to various gravitational systems. In the Unruh state for the evaporating black holes, the free-fall energy density is found to be negative divergent at the horizon, which is in contrast to the conventional calculations performed in the Kruskal coordinates. We resolve this conflict by invoking that the Kruskal coordinates could be no longer proper coordinates at the horizon. In the Hartle–Hawking–Israel state, despite the negative finite proper energy density at the horizon, the Tolman temperature is divergent there due to the infinite blueshift of the Hawking temperature. However, a consistent Stefan–Boltzmann law with the Hawking radiation shows that the effective Tolman temperature is eventually finite everywhere and the equivalence principle is surprisingly restored at the horizon. Then, we also show that the firewall necessarily emerges out of the Unruh vacuum, so that the Tolman temperature in the evaporating black hole is naturally divergent due to the infinitely blueshifted negative ingoing flux crossing the horizon, whereas the outgoing Hawking radiation characterized by the effective Tolman temperature indeed originates from the quantum atmosphere, not just at the horizon. So, the firewall and the atmosphere for the Hawking radiation turn out to be compatible, once we discard the fact that the Hawking radiation in the Unruh state originates from the infinitely blueshifted outgoing excitations at the horizon. Finally, as a cosmological application, the initial radiation energy density in warm inflation scenarios has been assumed to be finite when inflation starts. We successfully find the origin of the nonvanishing initial radiation energy density in the warm inflation by using the effective Tolman temperature.

Some Remarks on the $$C^0$$ C 0 -(In)Extendibility of Spacetimes

The existence, established over the past number of years and supporting earlier work of Ori [14], of physically relevant black hole spacetimes that admit $C^0$ metric extensions beyond the future Cauchy horizon, while being $C^2$-inextendible, has focused attention on fundamental issues concerning the strong cosmic censorship conjecture. These issues were recently discussed in the work of Jan Sbierski [17], in which he established the (nonobvious) fact that the Schwarschild solution in global Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates is $C^0$-inextendible. In this paper we review aspects of Sbierski's methodology in a general context, and use similar techniques, along with some new observations, to consider the $C^0$-inextendibility of open FLRW cosmological models. We find that a certain special class of open FLRW spacetimes, which we have dubbed `Milne-like,' actually admit $C^0$ extensions through the big bang. For spacetimes that are not Milne-like, we prove some inextendibility results within the class of spherically symmetric spacetimes.

Self-Gravitating Stellar Collapse: Explicit Geodesics and Path Integration

We extend the work of Oppenheimer & Synder to model the gravitational collapse of a star to a black hole by including quantum mechanical effects. We first derive closed-form solutions for classical paths followed by a particle on the surface of the collapsing star in Schwarzschild and Kruskal coordinates for space-like, time-like and light-like geodesics. We next present an application of these paths to model the collapse of ultra-light dark matter particles, which necessitates incorporating quantum effects. To do so we treat a particle on the surface of the star as a wavepacket and integrate over all possible paths taken by the particle. The waveform is computed in Schwarzschild coordinates and found to exhibit an ingoing and an outgoing component, where the former contains the probability of collapse, while the latter contains the probability that the star will disperse. These calculations pave the way for investigating the possibility of quantum collapse that does not lead to black hole formation as well as for exploring the nature of the wavefunction inside r=2M.

Eternal higher spin black holes: a thermofield Interpretation

We study Lorentzian eternal black holes in the Chern-Simons sector of AdS$_3$ higher spin gravity. We probe such black holes using bulk Wilson lines and motivate new regularity conditions that must be obeyed by the bulk connections in order for the geometry to be consistent with an interpretation as a thermofield state in the dual CFT$_2$. We demonstrate that any higher spin black hole may be placed in a gauge that satisfies these conditions: this is the Chern-Simons analogue of the construction of Kruskal coordinates that permit passage through the black hole horizon. We also argue that the Wilson line provides a higher-spin notion of causality in higher spin gravity that can be used to associate a Penrose diagram with the black hole. We present some applications of the formalism, including a study of the time-dependent entanglement entropy arising from the higher spin black hole interior and evidence for an emergent AdS$_2$ region in the extremal limit.

Interior dynamics of neutral and charged black holes

In this paper, we explore the interior dynamics of neutral and charged black holes. Scalar collapses in flat, Schwarzschild, and Reissner-Nordstr\"om background geometries are simulated. We examine the dynamics in the vicinities of the central singularity of a Schwarzschild black hole and of the inner horizon of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. In simulating scalar collapses in Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstr\"om geometries, Kruskal and Kruskal-like coordinates are used, respectively, with the presence of a scalar field being taken into account. It is found that, besides near the inner horizons of Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr black holes, mass inflation also takes place near the central singularity in neutral scalar collapse. Approximate analytic expressions for different types of mass inflation are partially obtained via a close interplay between numerical and analytical approaches and an examination of the connections between Schwarzschild black holes, Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes, neutral collapse, and charge scattering. We argue that the mass inflations near the central singularity and the inner horizon are related to the localness of the dynamics in strong gravity regions. This is in accord with the Belinskii, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz conjecture.

Interior Dynamics of Neutral and Charged Black Holes in f(R) Gravity

In this paper, we explore the interior dynamics of neutral and charged black holes in f(R) gravity. We transform f(R) gravity from the Jordan frame into the Einstein frame and simulate scalar collapses in flat, Schwarzschild, and Reissner-Nordström geometries. In simulating scalar collapses in Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström geometries, Kruskal and Kruskal-like coordinates are used, respectively, with the presence of f′ and a physical scalar field being taken into account. The dynamics in the vicinities of the central singularity of a Schwarzschild black hole and of the inner horizon of a Reissner-Nordström black hole is examined. Approximate analytic solutions for different types of collapses are partially obtained. The scalar degree of freedom Φ, transformed from f′, plays a similar role as a physical scalar field in general relativity. Regarding the physical scalar field in f(R) case, when dΦ/dt is negative (positive), the physical scalar field is suppressed (magnified) by Φ, where t is the coordinate time. For dark energy f(R) gravity, inside black holes, gravity can easily push f′ to 1. Consequently, the Ricci scalar R becomes singular, and the numerical simulation breaks down. This singularity problem can be avoided by adding an R2 term to the original f(R) function, in which case an infinite Ricci scalar is pushed to regions where f′ is also infinite. On the other hand, in collapse for this combined model, a black hole, including a central singularity, can be formed. Moreover, under certain initial conditions, f′ and R can be pushed to infinity as the central singularity is approached. Therefore, the classical singularity problem, which is present in general relativity, remains in collapse for this combined model.

Study of motion around a static black hole in Einstein and Lovelock gravity

We study motion around a static Einstein and pure Lovelock black hole in higher dimensions. It is known that in higher dimensions, bound orbits exist only for pure Lovelock black hole in all even dimensions, D=2N+2, where N is degree of Lovelock polynomial action. In particular, we compute periastron shift and light bending and the latter is given by one of transverse spatial components of Riemann curvature tensor. We also consider pseudo-Newtonian potentials and Kruskal coordinates.

The analytic conformal compactification of the Schwarzschild spacetime

Among the coordinates used to construct a conformal compactification of the Schwarzschild spacetime, none of them simultaneously extend smoothly both through an event horizon and beyond null infinity. To construct such coordinates, instead of starting with the Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates, we assume direct analytic transformation between Schwarzschild and compactified coordinates and determine their behavior on the event horizon and at null infinity. We then propose an example of such coordinates and illustrate the way they cover the conformally extended Schwarzschild spacetime as well as their suitability for numerical applications.

Kruskal Dynamics for Radial Geodesics

The total spacetime manifold for a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) is believed to be described by the Kruskal coordi-nates and , where r and t are the conventional Schwarzschild radial and time coordinates re-spectively. The relationship between r and t for a test particle moving along a radial or non-radial geodesic is well known. Similarly, the expression for the vacuum Schwarzschild derivative for a geodesic, in terms of the constants of motion, is well known. However, the same is not true for the Kruskal coordinates; and, we derive here the expression for the Kruskal derivative for a radial geodesic in terms of the constants of motion. In particular, it is seen that the value of ) is regular on the Event Horizon of the Black Hole. The regular nature of the Kruskal derivative is in sharp contrast with the Schwarzschild derivative, , at the Event Horizon. We also explicitly obtain the value of the Kruskal coordinates on the Event Horizon as a function of the constant of motion for a test particle on a radial geodesic. The physical implications of this result will be discussed elsewhere.