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Phys. Rev. D 78, 084022 (2008) [19 pages]

First order perturbations of the Einstein-Straus and Oppenheimer-Snyder models

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Marc Mars
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

Filipe C. Mena
Departamento de Matemática, Universidade do Minho, 4710 Braga, Portugal

Raül Vera
Fisika Teorikoaren Saila, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 644 PK, Bilbao 48080, Basque Country, Spain

Received 27 May 2008; published 16 October 2008

We derive the linearly perturbed matching conditions between a Schwarzschild spacetime region with stationary and axially symmetric perturbations and a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime with arbitrary perturbations. The matching hypersurface is also perturbed arbitrarily and, in all cases, the perturbations are decomposed into scalars using the Hodge operator on the sphere. This allows us to write down the matching conditions in a compact way. In particular, we find that the existence of a perturbed (rotating, stationary, and vacuum) Schwarzschild cavity in a perturbed FLRW universe forces the cosmological perturbations to satisfy constraints that link rotational and gravitational wave perturbations. We also prove that if the perturbation on the FLRW side vanishes identically, then the vacuole must be perturbatively static and hence Schwarzschild. By the dual nature of the problem, the first result translates into links between rotational and gravitational wave perturbations on a perturbed Oppenheimer-Snyder model, where the perturbed FLRW dust collapses in a perturbed Schwarzschild environment which rotates in equilibrium. The second result implies, in particular, that no region described by FLRW can be a source of the Kerr metric.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.084022
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.084022
PACS:
04.20.−q, 04.25.−g, 95.30.Sf, 98.80.Jk