Riemannian Geometry and General Relativity

(Differential Geometry-2, MTH 3412, Winter 1997 )

Professor M.Shubin


Home Assignment 4

1. Prove that in 4-dimensional case the cyclic relation

is independent of the antisymmetry and symmetry relations

i.e. there exists a tensor of type (0,4) in such that it satisfies (2) but not (1).

2. Prove that in 2-dimensional case

where is the scalar curvature.

3. Show that the curvature tensor of the Schwarzschild metric does not vanish.

4. Find the mass of a black hole if its horizon sphere has the size of an atom i.e. the radius about cm.

5. Prove that the Schwarzschild solution indeed has a singularity (which can not be corrected by changing coordinates).

6. Consider a particle moving in the Schwarzschild gravitation field. Prove that its trajectory is a plane curve.

7. Consider a satellite rotating around a black hole of the given mass m (or given Schwarzschild radius 2m) along a circular orbit of a radius R>2m (outside the horizon sphere). Find the period of the rotation by a distant observer clock and also by the clock in the satellite. What happens with these periods as ?

8. Let M be a Riemannian manifold. Define canonical coordinates near by transfering arbitrary linear orthonormal coordinates in near 0 to a neighborhood of p in M via the geodesic exponential map . Prove that in these coordinates , ,

for any and sufficiently small , and

9. Let G be a compact Lie group with a biinvariant Riemannian metric, X,Y,Z left-invariant vector fields on G. Prove that

and

Hint. Use the fact that one-parametric subgroups and their left translations are geodesics.

10. Let G be a compact Lie group with a biinvariant Riemannian metric, X,Y,Z,W left-invariant vector fields on G. Prove that

and



Have a look at the solutions.


Sergey Bratus
Wed Mar 5 23:15:04 EST 1997