Published August 15, 2002
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Journal article
Angular momentum and energy-momentum densities as gauge currents
Creators
- 1. Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona 145, 01405-900 Sao Paulo SP (Brazil)
Description
If we replace the general spacetime group of diffeomorphisms by transformations taking place in the tangent space, general relativity can be interpreted as a gauge theory, and in particular as a gauge theory for the Lorentz group. In this context, it is shown that the angular momentum and the energy-momentum tensors of a general matter field can be obtained from the invariance of the corresponding action integral under transformations taking place, not in spacetime, but in the tangent space, in which case they can be considered as gauge currents
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.044001;
- arXiv
- arXiv:gr-qc/0201076v3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 66
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 044001-044001.6
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35067605
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACTION INTEGRAL; ALGEBRAIC CURRENTS; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DENSITY; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; LORENTZ GROUPS; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; MATTER; SPACE-TIME
- Descriptors DEC
- CURRENTS; FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POINCARE GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TENSORS; TRANSFORMATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2002 The American Physical Society