Vaidya geometries and scalar fields with null gradients release_wdcdjoyi65b3ni74fnjrkmaley

by Valerio Faraoni, Andrea Giusti, Bardia H. Fahim

Published in European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields by Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

2021   Volume 81, Issue 3, p232

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>Since, in Einstein gravity, a massless scalar field with lightlike gradient behaves as a null dust, one could expect that it can act as the matter source of Vaidya geometries. We show that this is impossible because the Klein–Gordon equation forces the null geodesic congruence tangent to the scalar field gradient to have zero expansion, contradicting a basic property of Vaidya solutions. By contrast, exact plane waves travelling at light speed and sourced by a scalar field acting as a null dust are possible.
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