Speaker: Edgar Gasperin (CENTRA, IST)
Title: Zero rest-mass fields in Minkowski spacetime close to spatial infinity
Abstract:
Zero rest-mass fields of spin 1 (the electromagnetic field) and spin 2 propagating on flat space and their corresponding Newman-Penrose (NP) constants are studied near spatial infinity. The aim of this analysis is to clarify the correspondence between data for these fields on a spacelike hypersurface and the value of their corresponding NP constants at future and past null infinity. To do so, the framework of the cylinder at spatial infinity is employed to show that, expanding the initial data in terms spherical harmonics and powers of the geodesic spatial distance ρ to spatial infinity, the NP constants correspond to the data for the second highest possible spherical harmonic at fixed order in ρ. In addition, it is shown that for generic initial data within the class considered in this article, the NP constants at future and past null infinity, for both the Maxwell and spin-2 field, do not correspond to each other. However, if the initial data is time-symmetric, then, a correspondence between the NP constants at future and past null infinity is established.
Room: ZOOM videoconference (contact justin.feng@tecnico.ulisboa.pt for URL)