Published May 7, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Conservation laws for vacuum tetrad gravity

  • 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

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