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Simon-Mars tensor in Curzon-Chazy spacetime
This worksheet is based on SageManifolds (version 0.7). It implements the computation of the Simon-Mars tensor of Curzon-Chazy spacetime used in the article arXiv:1412.6542.
It is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.
(c) Claire Somé, Eric Gourgoulhon (2015)
The worksheet file in Sage notebook format is here.
Spacetime manifold
We start by declaring the Curzon-Chazy spacetime as a 4-dimensional manifold:
We introduce the coordinates with related to the standard Weyl-Papapetrou coordinates by :
Metric tensor
We declare the only parameter of the Curzon-Chazy spacetime, which is the mass as a symbolic variable:
Without any loss of generality, we set to some specific value (this amounts simply to fixing some length scale):
Let us introduce the spacetime metric and set its components in the coordinate frame associated with Weyl-Papapetrou coordinates:
The Levi-Civita connection associated with :
As a check, we verify that the covariant derivative of with respect to vanishes identically:
Killing vector
The default vector frame on the spacetime manifold is the coordinate basis associated with Weyl-Papapetrou coordinates:
Let us consider the first vector field of this frame:
The 1-form associated to it by metric duality is
Its covariant derivative is
Let us check that the Killing equation is satisfied:
Equivalently, we check that the Lie derivative of the metric along vanishes:
Thank to Killing equation, is antisymmetric. We may therefore define a 2-form by . Here we enforce the antisymmetry by calling the function antisymmetrize() on nab_xi:
We check that
The squared norm of the Killing vector is
Instead of invoking , we could have evaluated by means of the 1-form acting on the vector field :
or we could have used index notation in the form :
Curvature
The Riemann curvature tensor associated with is
The component is
while the component is
The Ricci tensor:
Let us check that the Curzon-Chazy metric is a solution of the vacuum Einstein equation:
The Weyl conformal curvature tensor is
Let us exhibit two of its components and :
To form the Mars-Simon tensor, we need the fully covariant (type-(0,4) tensor) form of the Weyl tensor (i.e. ); we get it by lowering the first index with the metric:
The (monoterm) symmetries of this tensor are those inherited from the Weyl tensor, i.e. the antisymmetry on the last two indices (position 2 and 3, the first index being at position 0):
Actually, Cd is also antisymmetric with respect to the first two indices (positions 0 and 1), as we can check:
To take this symmetry into account explicitely, we set
Hence we have now
Simon-Mars tensor
The Simon-Mars tensor with respect to the Killing vector is a rank-3 tensor introduced by Marc Mars in 1999 (Class. Quantum Grav. 16, 2507). It has the remarkable property to vanish identically if, and only if, the spacetime is locally isometric to a Kerr spacetime.
Let us evaluate the Simon-Mars tensor by following the formulas given in Mars' article. The starting point is the self-dual complex 2-form associated with the Killing 2-form , i.e. the object , where is the Hodge dual of :
Let us check that is self-dual, i.e. that it obeys :
Let us form the right self-dual of the Weyl tensor as follows
where is associated to the Levi-Civita tensor and is obtained by
The right self-dual Weyl tensor is then:
The Ernst 1-form (0 = contraction on the first index of ):
Instead of invoking the function contract(), we could have used the index notation to denote the contraction:
The symmetric bilinear form :
Final computation leading to the Simon-Mars tensor:
The first part of the Simon-Mars tensor is
The second part is the tensor
which we compute by using the index notation to denote the contractions:
The Mars-Simon tensor with respect to is obtained by antisymmetrizing and on their last two indices and adding them:
We use the index notation for the antisymmetrization:
An equivalent writing would have been (the last two indices being in position 1 and 2):
The Simon-Mars tensor is
Hence the Simon-Mars tensor is not zero: the Curzon-Chazy spacetime is not locally isomorphic to the Kerr spacetime.
Computation of the Simon-Mars scalars
First we form the "square" of the Simon-Mars tensor:
Then we take the real and imaginary part of this compex scalar field. Because this spacetime is spherically symmetric, we expect that the imaginary part vanishes.
Furthermore we scale those scalars by the ADM mass of the Curzon-Chazy spacetime, which corresponds to :
And we take the log of this quantity
Then we plot the value of this quantity as a function of and , thereby producing Figure 10 of arXiv:1412.6542: