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The familiar c → ∞ nonrelativistic limit converts the Klein-Gordon equation in Minkowski spacetime to the free Schrödinger equation, and the Einstein-massive-scalar system without a cosmological constant to the Schrödinger-Newton (SN) equation. In this paper, motivated by the problem of stability of Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, we examine how this limit is affected by the presence of a negative cosmological constant Λ. Assuming for consistency that the product Λc2 tends to a negative constant as c → ∞, we show that the corresponding nonrelativistic limit is given by the SN system with an external harmonic potential which we call the Schrödinger-Newton-Hooke (SNH) system. We then derive the resonant approximation which captures the dynamics of small amplitude spherically symmetric solutions of the SNH system. This resonant system turns out to be much simpler than its general-relativistic version, which makes it amenable to analytic methods. Specifically, in four spatial dimensions, we show that the resonant system possesses a three-dimensional invariant subspace on which the dynamics is completely integrable and hence can be solved exactly. The evolution of the two-lowest-mode initial data (an extensively studied case for the original general-relativistic system), in particular, is described by this family of solutions.
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Bizoń, P., Evnin, O. & Ficek, F. A nonrelativistic limit for AdS perturbations. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 113 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)113
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