Gravitoelectromagnetic Knot Fields

Abstract

We construct a class of knot solutions of the time-dependent gravitoelectromagnetic (GEM) equations in vacuum in the linearized gravity approximation by analogy with the Rañada–Hopf fields. For these solutions, the dual metric tensors of the bi-metric geometry of the gravitational vacuum with knot perturbations are given and the geodesic equation as a function of two complex parameters of the time-dependent GEM knots are calculated. By taking stationary potentials, which formally amount to particularizing to time-independent GEM equations, we obtain a set of stationary fields subjected to constraints from the time-dependent GEM knots. Finally, the Landau–Lifshitz pseudo-tensor and a scalar invariant of the static fields are computed.