Note on flat foliations of spherically symmetric spacetimes

Viqar Husain; Asghar Qadir; Azad A. Siddiqui

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.65.027501

Note on flat foliations of spherically symmetric spacetimes

Viqar Husain^*
, Asghar Qadir
, Azad A. Siddiqui

^*Corresponding author for this work

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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It is known that spherically symmetric spacetimes admit flat spacelike foliations. We point out a simple method of seeing this result via the Hamiltonian contraints of general relativity. The method yields explicit formulas for the extrinsic curvatures of the slicings.

Original language	English
Article number	027501
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	65
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.027501
State	Published - 2002

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