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Application of algebraic classification and related methods to problems of higher-dimensional relativity
Tintěra, Tomáš ; Pravda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Málek, Tomáš (referee) ; Švarc, Robert (referee)
In four-dimensional general relativity, the algebraic classification has played an important role in study of spacetimes, including, but not limited to the search for new solutions to the Einstein equation. In the present work, we study its recent generalization to higher dimensions, based on categorizing Weyl tensor frame components by their transformation properties under boosts. Specifically, we concentrate on its connection to two well-established concepts. Kaluza-Klein reduction can be regarded as a relation between spacetimes of different dimen- sionality. As such, it is desirable to be understood in the context of the higher-dimensional algebraic classification. We study algebraic properties of Weyl tensors related by Kaluza-Klein reduction. Specifically, we concentrate on reduction of vacuum spacetimes by one spatial Killing direction and investigate Weyl-alignment multiplicities of two related null directions that are parallel in a gauge where they are perpendicular to the Maxwell potential. We express rela- tions of various quantities of the related spacetimes, such as Riemann and Weyl tensors, optical matrices and non-geodeticities, revealing some interesting consequences regarding reduction of Kundt spacetimes and of spacetimes admitting a geodetic null direction. Based on this, we...
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The mathematical theory of perturbations in cosmology
Novák, Jan ; Pravda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Chopovsky, A. (referee) ; Scholtz, Martin (referee)
We deal with cosmological perturbation theory in my work. We investigate General Theory of Relativity in Higher Dimensions in the Chapter 1. I mention GHP-formalism and algebraical classification of spacetimes. I use spinors to show that spacetimes of dimension 4 are special. I discuss also Kundt spacetimes, which are interesting for perturbation theory of black holes. I work with perturbations of FLRW ST's in GHP formalism in Chapter 2, which we want to use in Cosmological Inflation. The final part of my thesis is connected with scalar perturbations in f(R)-cosmologies, that can be used for explaining accelerated expansion in the last 5 billion years. I investigate the Universe at the scales of 150 Mpc, where I could not use the hydrodynamical approach. Thus I work with the generalization of the Landau's mechanical approach. I need quasi-static approximation for getting the potentials Φ and Ψ, since the equations are too complicated for direct integration. I plan to use the result also for numerical simulation of motions of dwarf galaxies in these potentials. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Inhomogeneous cosmological models
Vrba, David ; Svítek, Otakar (advisor) ; Pravda, Vojtěch (referee) ; Žofka, Martin (referee)
In this work we study inhomogeneous cosmological models. After a brief review of applications of inhomogeneous solutions to Einstein equations in cosmology, we give a short description of the most widely used inhomogeneous cosmological models. In the second chapter we study in detail geometrical prop- erties of the Szekeres spacetime and we are concerned with the interpretation of the metric functions in different types of geometries. In the last chapter we model inhomogeneity in Szekeres spacetime. We derive formula for the density contrast and investigate its behaviour. We also derive conditions for the density extremes that are necessary for avoiding the shell crossing singularity in Szekeres spacetime. 1
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The mathematical theory of perturbations in cosmology
Novák, Jan ; Pravda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Scholtz, Martin (referee) ; Chopovsky, A. (referee)
We have been studying Cosmological Perturbation Theory in this thesis. There was presented the Standard General Relativity in higher dimensions. Then we used the apparatus of so called GHP formalism and this is a generalization of the well-known NP-formalism. Scalar perturbations in f(R)-cosmology in the late Universe is the final topic, which was a logical step how to proceed further and to continue in work where was shown that four-dimensional spacetimes are special. We get the potentials φ and ψ for the case of a box 150 Mpc. We used the so called mechanical approach for the case of a cosmological background. Our approach of getting these potentials is in observable Universe new. It is interesting also in the context of simulations in these, so called nonlinear theories. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Study of Exact Spacetimes
Švarc, Robert ; Podolský, Jiří (advisor) ; Pravda, Vojtěch (referee) ; Steinbauer, Roland (referee)
In this work we study various aspects of the behaviour of free test particles in Einstein's general relativity and analyze specific physical properties of the background spacetimes. In the first part we investigate geodesic motions in the four-dimensional constant curvature spacetimes, i.e., Minkowski and (anti-)de Sitter universe, with an expanding impulsive gravitational wave. We derive the simple refraction formulae for particles crossing the impulse and describe the effect of nonvanishig cosmological constant. In the second part of this work we present a general method useful for geometrical and physical interpretation of arbitrary spacetimes in any dimension. It is based on the systematic analysis of the relative motion of free test particles. The equation of geodesic deviation is rewritten with respect to the natural orthonormal frame. We discuss the contributions given by a specific algebraic structure of the curvature tensor and the matter content of the universe. This formalism is subsequently used for investigation of the large class of nontwisting spacetimes. In particular, we analyse the motions in the nonexpanding Kundt and expanding Robinson--Trautman family of solutions.
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General Relativity in Higher Dimensions
Málek, Tomáš ; Pravda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Raeymaekers, Joris (referee) ; Podolský, Jiří (referee)
vii Title: General relativity in higher dimensions Author: Tomáš Málek Institute: Institute of Theoretical Physics Supervisor: Mgr. Vojtěch Pravda, PhD., Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Abstract: In the first part of this thesis, Kerr-Schild metrics and extended Kerr- Schild metrics are analyzed in the context of higher dimensional general relativ- ity. Employing the higher dimensional generalizations of the Newman-Penrose formalism and the algebraic classification of spacetimes based on the existence and multiplicity of Weyl aligned null directions, we establish various geometri- cal properties of the Kerr-Schild congruences, determine compatible Weyl types and in the expanding case discuss the presence of curvature singularities. We also present known exact solutions admitting these Kerr-Schild forms and con- struct some new ones using the Brinkmann warp product. In the second part, the influence of quantum corrections consisting of quadratic curvature invariants on the Einstein-Hilbert action is considered and exact vacuum solutions of these quadratic gravities are studied in arbitrary dimension. We investigate classes of Einstein spacetimes and spacetimes with a null radiation term in the Ricci tensor satisfying the vacuum field equations of quadratic gravity...
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Investigation of geometrical and physical properties of exact spacetimes
Hruška, Ondřej ; Podolský, Jiří (advisor) ; Pravda, Vojtěch (referee) ; Steinbauer, Roland (referee)
In this work, we study geometrical and physical properties of exact spacetimes that belong to non-expanding Pleba'nski-Demia'nski class. It is a family of solutions of type D that also belong to the Kundt class, and contain seven arbitrary parameters including a cosmological constant. We present here the results of three extensive articles, each focusing on a different aspect of the problem. In the first article, we investigate the meaning of individual parame- ters in the non-expanding Pleba'nski-Demia'nski metric. First, we set almost all parameters to zero and obtain Minkowski and (anti-)de Sitter backgrounds. Af- terwards, we allow other parameters to be non-zero and we study the B-metrics, non-singular "anti-NUT" solutions and conclude with the full electrovacuum Pleba'nski-Demia'nski metric. In the second article, we focus on the de Sitter and anti-de Sitter backgrounds where we present and analyse 11 new diagonal metric forms of (anti-)de Sitter spacetime. We find five-dimensional parametriza- tions, draw coordinate surfaces and conformal diagrams. In the third article, we show that the AII-metric together with the BI-metric describes gravitational field around a tachyon on both Minkowski and (anti-)de Sitter backgrounds. Fi- nally, in order to better understand the global structure and...
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VSI electromagnetic fields
Ortaggio, Marcello ; Pravda, Vojtěch
A p-form F is VSI (i.e., all its scalar invariants of arbitrary order vanish) in a n-dimensional spacetime if and only if it is of type N, its multiple null direction is "degenerate Kundt", and ...F = 0. This recent result is reviewed in the present contribution and its main consequences are summarized. In particular, a subset of VSI Maxwell fields possesses a universal property, i.e., they also solve (virtually) any generalized (non-linear and with higher derivatives) electrodynamics, possibly also coupled to Einstein's gravity.
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On type II universal spacetimes
Hervik, S. ; Málek, Tomáš ; Pravda, Vojtěch ; Pravdová, Alena
We briefly summarize our recent results on type II universal metrics of the Lorentzian signature. These metrics simultaneously solve all vacuum field equations of theories of gravity with the Lagrangian being a polynomial curvature invariant constructed from the metric, the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives of arbitrary order. It turns out that the results critically depend on the dimensionality of the spacetime. While we discuss examples of type II universal metrics for all composite number dimensions, we have no examples for prime number dimensions. Furthermore, we have proven the non-existence of type II universal spacetimes in five dimensions.
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