Virial identities across the spacetime

Virial-like identities obtained through Derrick's scaling argument are powerful, multipurpose tools to study general relativistic models. Applications comprise establishing no-go/hair theorems and numerical accuracy tests. In the presence of a horizon (also known as a boundary), the spacetime can be divided into regions, each with its own identity. So far, such identities have only been computed in the region outside the event horizon; however, adding a positive cosmological constant endows an additional boundary (the cosmological horizon), with the region between the latter and the former being of particular interest. In this letter, by performing a radial coordinate transformation, we generalize Derrick's scaling argument to compute virial identities across the whole nonasymptotically flat spacetimes. The developed method is applied to the entire Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter spacetime. A convenient gauge that trivializes the gravitational contribution to the identity between horizons is also found.

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Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
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2025-04-04
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.084008
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Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
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Virial identities across the spacetime

Alexandre M. Pombo, Lorenzo Pizzuti
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
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Virial identities across the spacetime

Alexandre M. Pombo, Lorenzo Pizzuti
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Virial-like identities obtained through Derrick's scaling argument are powerful, multipurpose tools to study general relativistic models. Applications comprise establishing no-go/hair theorems and numerical accuracy tests. In the presence of a horizon (also known as a boundary), the spacetime can be divided into regions, each with its own identity. So far, such identities have only been computed in the region outside the event horizon; however, adding a positive cosmological constant endows an additional boundary (the cosmological horizon), with the region between the latter and the former being of particular interest. In this letter, by performing a radial coordinate transformation, we generalize Derrick's scaling argument to compute virial identities across the whole nonasymptotically flat spacetimes. The developed method is applied to the entire Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter spacetime. A convenient gauge that trivializes the gravitational contribution to the identity between horizons is also found.

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