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Title: | Virial identities in relativistic gravity: 1D effective actions and the role of boundary terms |
Author: | Herdeiro, Carlos A. R. Oliveira, João M. S. Pombo, Alexandre M. Radu, Eugen |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Abstract: | Virial (aka scaling) identities are integral identities that are useful for a variety of purposes in nonlinear field theories, including establishing no-go theorems for solitonic and black hole solutions, as well as for checking the accuracy of numerical solutions. In this paper, we provide a pedagogical rationale for the derivation of such integral identities, starting from the standard variational treatment of particle mechanics. In the framework of one-dimensional (1D) effective actions, the treatment presented here yields a set of useful formulas for computing virial identities in any field theory. Then, we propose that a complete treatment of virial identities in relativistic gravity must take into account the appropriate boundary term. For General Relativity this is the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term. We test and confirm this proposal with concrete examples. Our analysis here is restricted to spherically symmetric configurations, which yield 1D effective actions (leaving higher-D effective actions and in particular the axially symmetric case to a companion paper). In this case, we show that there is a particular “gauge” choice, i.e. a choice of coordinates and parametrizing metric functions, that simplifies the computation of virial identities in General Relativity, making both the Einstein-Hilbert action and the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term noncontributing. Under this choice, the virial identity results exclusively from the matter action. For generic “gauge” choices, however, this is not the case. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/32690 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.104051 |
ISSN: | 2470-0010 |
Publisher Version: | https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.104051 |
Appears in Collections: | CIDMA - Artigos DMat - Artigos GGDG - Artigos |
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