Charged null fluid and the weak energy condition

Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations with the addition of terms representing charged null fluid emitted from a spherically symmetric body and perfect fluid are obtained. The solutions of Tupper and Patel and Akabari are derived as particular cases.

We analyze here the spherically symmetric collapse of a charged null fluid in a higher dimensional spacetime. Both naked singularities and black holes are shown to be developing as final outcome of the collapse. A relationship between weak energy condition and occurrence of strong curvature singularity is pointed out.

Of the various energy conditions which can be assumed when studying mathematical general relativity, intuitively the simplest is the weak energy condition μ⩾0 which simply states that the observed mass-energy density must be non-negative. This energy condition has not received as much attention as the so-called dominant energy condition. When the natural question of the Penrose inequality in the context of the weak energy condition arose, we could not find any results in the literature, and it was not immediately clear whether the inequality would hold, even in spherical symmetry. This led us to constructing a spherically symmetric asymptotically flat initial data set satisfying the weak energy condition which violates the ‘usual’ formulations of the Penrose conjecture. This does not contradict (Malec and Murchadha 1994 Phys. Rev. D 49 6931–4), as there the data is assumed to be maximal. Our result is unexpected and interesting because the heuristic argument behind the Penrose inequality relies on the black hole area law which holds when the weak energy condition is satisfied. Our methods also lead to a counter example to the positive mass theorem assuming the weak energy condition.

In isotropic loop quantum cosmology, non-perturbatively modified dynamics of a minimally coupled scalar field violates weak, strong and dominant energy conditions when they are stated in terms of the equation-of-state parameter. The violation of the strong energy condition helps to have non-singular evolution by evading singularity theorems thus leading to a generic inflationary phase. However, the violation of weak and dominant energy conditions raises concern, as in general relativity these conditions ensure causality of the system and stability of vacuum via the Hawking–Ellis conservation theorem. It is shown here that the non-perturbatively modified kinetic term contributes negative pressure but positive energy density. This crucial feature leads to the violation of energy conditions but ensures the positivity of energy density, as the scalar matter Hamiltonian remains bounded from below. It is also shown that the modified dynamics restricts group velocity for inhomogeneous modes to remain sub-luminal thus ensuring causal propagation across spatial distances.

A new family of polynomial solutions for charged fluid spheres

(2+1)-regular static black hole solutions with a nonlinear electric field are derived. The source to the Einstein equations is an energy momentum tensor of nonlinear electrodynamics, which satisfies the weak energy conditions and in the weak field limit becomes the (2+1)-Maxwell field tensor. The derived class of solutions is regular; the metric, curvature invariants and electric field are regular everywhere. The metric becomes, for a vanishing parameter, the (2+1)-static charged BTZ solution. A general procedure to derive solutions for the static BTZ (2+1)-spacetime, for any nonlinear Lagrangian depending on the electric field is formulated; for relevant electric fields one requires the fulfillment of the weak energy conditions.

We study new solutions of black bounce spacetimes formulated in $f(T)$ gravity in four dimensions. First, we present the case of a diagonal tetrad, where a constraint arises in the equations of motion, which is divided into the cases of null torsion, constant torsion, and Teleparallel. The Null Energy Condition (NEC) is still always violated, which implies that the other energy conditions are violated. The solutions are regular in all spacetime and the solution with null torsion exhibits discontinuity between the energy conditions outside and inside the event horizon. Second, we present the case of non-diagonal tetrads. This case is divided into a Simpson-Visser type model and a quadratic model. The NEC continues to be violated, implying a violation of the other energy conditions. The solutions are regular in all spacetimes. An interesting result is that due to the possibility that the area associated with the metric is different from $4\pi r^2$, the no-go theorem established in the usual $f(T)$ is violated, appearing the new possibility $g_{00}=-g^{11}$, for the components of the metric.

Locally Rotationally Symmetric (LRS) Bianchi type-I metric is examined in the presence of perfect fluid. Exact solutions of Einstein’s field equations (EFE) have been studied by taking into account a hyperbolic scale factor. We observed that the model has initial singularity. It is found that the Universe approaches isotropy at late times. Through state finder pair [Formula: see text], it is observed that at late cosmic time, the model behaves analogous to [Formula: see text]CDM model. Energy conditions of the model are studied and it is found that null energy condition (NEC), weak energy condition (WEC) and dominant energy conditions (DEC) are satisfied for our model while SEC is violated. We investigate some physically and geometrically realistic models in order to develop a viable cosmological model.

Existence of static wormhole solutions using [formula omitted] theory of gravity

Ellis–Bronnikov (EB) wormholes require violation of null energy conditions at the ‘throat’. This problem was cured by a simple modification of the ‘shape function’, which introduces a new parameter mge 2 (m=2 corresponds to the EB model). This leads to a generalised (GEB) version. In this work, we consider a model where the GEB wormhole geometry is embedded in a five dimensional warped background. We studied the status of all the energy conditions in detail for both EB and GEB embedding. We present our results analytically (wherever possible) and graphically. Remarkably, the presence of decaying warp factor leads to satisfaction of weak energy conditions even for the EB geometry, while the status of all the other energy conditions are improved compared to the four dimensional scenario. Besides inventing a new way to avoid the presence of exotic matter, in order to form a wormhole passage, our work reveals yet another advantage of having a warped extra dimension.

It has been suggested that an advanced civilization might have the technology to warp spacetime so that closed timelike curves would appear, allowing travel into the past. This paper examines this possibility in the case that the causality violations appear in a finite region of spacetime without curvature singularities. There will be a Cauchy horizon that is compactly generated and that in general contains one or more closed null geodesics which will be incomplete. One can define geometrical quantities that measure the Lorentz boost and area increase on going round these closed null geodesics. If the causality violation developed from a noncompact initial surface, the averaged weak energy condition must be violated on the Cauchy horizon. This shows that one cannot create closed timelike curves with finite lengths of cosmic string. Even if violations of the weak energy condition are allowed by quantum theory, the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor would get very large if timelike curves become almost closed. It seems the back reaction would prevent closed timelike curves from appearing. These results strongly support the chronology protection conjecture: The laws of physics do not allow the appearance of closed timelike curves.

We demonstrate that a Bjorken expanding strongly coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma can display dynamically-driven violations of the dominant and also the weak energy condition during hydrodynamization. In addition, we find that a period of vanishing entropy production in far-from-equilibrium stages induces later violations of the dominant energy condition in the strongly coupled plasma. Such violations cannot occur in a classical description of hydrodynamization and suggest that the inclusion of quantum effects in transport can lead to new phenomena in these regimes, even for systems without anomalies or spin.

In general relativity, the energy conditions are invoked to restrict general energy-momentum tensors ${T}_{\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\nu}}$ in different frameworks, and to derive general results that hold in a variety of general contexts on physical grounds. We show that in the standard Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) approach, where the equation of state of the cosmological fluid is unknown, the energy conditions provide model-independent bounds on the behavior of the distance modulus of cosmic sources as a function of the redshift for any spatial curvature. We use the most recent type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observations, which include the new Hubble Space Telescope SNe Ia events, to carry out a model-independent analysis of the energy conditions violation in the context of the standard cosmology. We show that both the null (NEC), weak (WEC), and dominant (DEC) conditions, which are associated with the existence of the so-called phantom fields, seem to have been violated only recently ($z\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.2$), whereas the condition for attractive gravity, i.e., the strong energy condition (SEC) was first violated billions of years ago, at $z\ensuremath{\gtrsim}1$.

This thesis presents various examples of the application of quantum-mechanical methods to the understanding of the structure of space-time. It focuses on noncommutative geometry and the gauge/gravity duality as intermediaries between quantum mechanics and classical geometry. First, we numerically calculate entanglement entropy and mutual information for a massive free scalar field on commutative and noncommutative (fuzzy) spheres. To define a subregion with a well-defined boundary in the noncommutative geometry, we use the symbol map between elements of the noncommutative algebra and functions on the sphere. We show that the UV-divergent part of the entanglement entropy on a fuzzy sphere does not follow an area law. In agreement with holographic predictions, it is extensive for small (but fixed) regions. This is true even in the limit of small noncommutativity. Nonetheless, we find that mutual information (which is UV-finite) is the same in both theories. This suggests that nonlocality at short distances does not affect quantum correlations over large distances in a free field theory. Previous work has shown that a surface embedded in flat ℝ³ can be associated to any three Hermitian matrices. By constructing coherent states corresponding to points in the emergent geometry, we study this emergent surface when the matrices are large. We find that the original matrices determine not only shape of the emergent surface, but also a unique Poisson structure. We prove that commutators of matrix operators correspond to Poisson brackets. Through our construction, we can realize arbitrary noncommutative membranes. Finally, we use the gauge/gravity correspondence to translate the positivity of relative entropy on the boundary into constraints on allowable space-time metrics in the bulk. Using the Einstein equations, we interpret these constraints as energy conditions. For certain three-dimensional bulks, we obtain strict constraints coming from the positivity of relative entropy with a thermal reference state which turn out to be equivalent to a version of the weak energy condition near the boundary. In higher dimensions, we use the canonical energy formalism to obtain similar but weaker constraints.

In the context of current scenario, it is crucial to look beyond Einstein’s theory, which opens the door to certain modified theories of gravity. So, present study is devoted to investigate the various energy conditions, particularly, strong energy condition (SEC), weak energy condition (WEC), null energy condition (NEC) and dominant energy condition (DEC) corresponding to different functional forms of f(R) gravity. We have studied for flat, isotropic and homogeneous FLRW cosmological model filled with interacting field i.e., perfect fluid is coupled with mass less scalar field for different models of modified f(R) gravity in which R is the Ricci scalar. We have observed, the accelerated expansion of the Universe which exact match with recent observational evidences.