Published May 7, 2006
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Journal article
Conservation laws for vacuum tetrad gravity
Creators
- 1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 (United States)
Description
Ten conservation laws in useful polynomial form are derived from a Cartan form and exterior differential system (EDS) for the tetrad equations of vacuum general relativity. The Noether construction of conservation laws for well-posed EDSs is introduced first, and an illustration given, deriving 15 conservation laws of the free field Maxwell equations from symmetries of its EDS. The Maxwell EDS and tetrad gravity EDS have parallel structures, with their numbers of dependent variables, numbers of generating 2-forms and generating 3-forms, and Cartan character tables all in the ratio of 1 to 4. They have ten corresponding symmetries with the same Lorentz algebra and ten corresponding conservation laws
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/23/2841/cqg6_9_005.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/23/2841/cqg6_9_005.pdf;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0264-9381/23/9/005;
- PII
- S0264-9381(06)08526-0;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Journal Volume
- 23
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- p. 2841-2848
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- CODEN
- CQGRDG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37063267
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGEBRA; CONSERVATION LAWS; COSMOLOGY; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GRAVITATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SYMMETRY
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RELATIVITY THEORY