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arxiv: 1306.1883 · v1 · pith:BGIQX7REnew · submitted 2013-06-08 · 🌀 gr-qc · math-ph· math.MP

Gaussian Curvature and Global effects : gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect revisited

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Using the Gauss-Bonnet formula, integral of the Gaussian curvature over a 2-surface enclosed by a curve in the asymptotically flat region of a static spacetime was found to be a measure of a gravitational analogue of Aharonov-Bohm effect by Ford and Vilenkin in the linearized regime. Employing the 1+3 formulation of spacetime decomposition we study the same effect in the context of full Einstein field equations for stationary spacetimes. Applying our approach to static tube-like and cylindrical distributions of dust not only we recover their result but also obtain an extra term which is interpreted to be representing the classical version of the Colella-Overhauser-Werner effect (the COW experiment).

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