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.
Authors
- Alexandre M. Pombo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5815-2758)
- Lorenzo Pizzuti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5654-7580)
Institutions
- FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CZ)
- University of Milano-Bicocca (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2025-04-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.111.084008
- Primary Topic
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Grantová Agentura České Republiky