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5D Kerr-AdS spacetime with a Nambu-Goto string in AdS coordinates
5D Kerr-AdS spacetime with a Nambu-Goto string
Case a = b with global AdS coordinates
This SageMath notebook is relative to the article Holographic drag force in 5d Kerr-AdS black hole by Irina Ya. Aref'eva, Anastasia A. Golubtsova and Eric Gourgoulhon, arXiv:2004.12984.
The involved differential geometry computations are based on tools developed through the SageManifolds project.
NB: a version of SageMath at least equal to 8.2 is required to run this notebook:
First we set up the notebook to display mathematical objects using LaTeX rendering:
Since some computations are quite long, we ask for running them in parallel on 8 cores:
Spacetime manifold
We declare the Kerr-AdS spacetime as a 5-dimensional Lorentzian manifold:
Let us define Boyer-Lindquist-type coordinates (rational polynomial version) on , via the method chart()
, the argument of which is a string expressing the coordinates names, their ranges (the default is ) and their LaTeX symbols:
The coordinate is related to the standard Boyer-Lindquist coordinate by
The coordinate ranges are
Note that contrary to the 4-dimensional case, the range of is only (cf. Sec. 1.2 of R.C. Myers, arXiv:1111.1903 or Sec. 2 of G.W. Gibbons, H. Lüb, Don N. Page, C.N. Pope, J. Geom. Phys. 53, 49 (2005)). In other words, the range of is only.
Metric tensor
The 4 parameters , , and of the Kerr-AdS spacetime are declared as symbolic variables, and being the two angular momentum parameters and being related to the cosmological constant by :
Some auxiliary functions:
The metric is set by its components in the coordinate frame associated with the Boyer-Lindquist-type coordinates, which is the current manifold's default frame. These components can be deduced from Eq. (5.22) of the article S.W. Hawking, C.J. Hunter & M.M. Taylor-Robinson, Phys. Rev. D 59, 064005 (1999) (the check of agreement with this equation is performed below):
Check of agreement with Eq. (5.22) of Hawking et al or Eq. (2.3) of o
We need the 1-forms , , , and :
In agreement with , we introduce the 1-form , with since :
Einstein equation
The Ricci tensor of is
Let us check that is a solution of the vacuum Einstein equation with the cosmological constant :
Check of Eq. (2.10)
One must have and keep_Delta == False
for the test to pass:
Global AdS coordinates
Transition from the Boyer-Lindquist coordinates to the AdS global coordinates, according to Eq. (5.24) of S.W. Hawking, C.J. Hunter & M.M. Taylor-Robinson, Phys. Rev. D 59, 064005 (1999):
Metric tensor is global AdS coordinates
From now on, we set the AdS coordinates as the default chart on :
Then
Comparison with Eq. (5.32) of S.W. Hawking, C.J. Hunter & M.M. Taylor-Robinson, Phys. Rev. D 59, 064005 (1999) (or Eq. (2.18) of our paper):
String worldsheet
The string worldsheet as a 2-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold (we don't assume Lorentzian signature here):
Let us assume that the string worldsheet is parametrized by :
The string embedding in Kerr-AdS spacetime, as an expansion about a straight string solution in AdS (Eqs. (4.30)-(4.32) of the paper)
Induced metric on the string worldsheet
The string worldsheet metric is the metric induced by the spacetime metric , i.e. the pullback of by the embedding :
Nambu-Goto action
Expanding at second order in :
The Nambu-Goto Lagrangian at second order in :
Euler-Lagrange equations
We compute the Euler-Lagrange equations at order for and :
Solving the equation for (check of Eq. (4.34))
The symbolic constants and are actually denoted _K1
and _K2
by SageMath, as the print
reveals:
Hence we perform the substitutions with SR.var('_K1')
and SR.var('_K2')
:
Solving the equation for (check of Eq. (4.34))
Nambu-Goto Lagrangian at fourth order in
The equation for (check of Eq. (4.35))
We plug the solutions obtained previously for and in this equation:
The equation for is thus:
Given that and we get for the equation for : This agrees with Eq. (4.35) of the paper.
Solving the equation for
Let us check that mu1_sol
is indeed a solution of the equation for :
The innermost integral can be written with
Let us evaluate by means of FriCAS:
Check:
Similarly, we evaluate by means of FriCAS:
Check:
In the above expressions for and there appears the factor which we represent by the symbolic variable B
Let us make appear in :
In this expression, there appears the term which is imaginary since . We there rewrite it as :
In the first , we recognize the function, via the identity which we use in the form as we can check:
Thus, we set, disregarding the additive constant ,
Let us check that we have indeed a primitive of :
Similarly, we can express in terms of :
Since , we replace by :
Again, we use the identity to rewrite as
Let us check that we have indeed a primitive of :
Given the above expressions for and we rewrite the solution
Let us check that we do have a solution of the equation for :
Conjugate momenta
The quantity :
The quantity
Let us perform an expansion in for :
Final result for :
The terms in , and agree with Eq. (4.37) of the paper.