Invariant conserved currents for gravity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2007.12.042MaRDI QIDQ446978zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuri N. Obukhov, Guillermo F. Rubilar

Publication date 8 September 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3551

zbMATH Keywords

energygravitationtotal massmomentumconserved currentsgauge gravitytotal angular momentum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: We develop a general approach, based on the Lagrange-Noether machinery, to the definition of invariant conserved currents for gravity theories with general coordinate and local Lorentz symmetries. In this framework, every vector field xi on spacetime generates, in any dimension n, for any Lagrangian of gravitational plus matter fields and for any (minimal or nonminimal) type of interaction, a current J[xi] with the following properties: (1) the current (n-1)-form J[xi] is constructed from the Lagrangian and the generalized field momenta, (2) it is conserved, d J[xi] = 0, when the field equations are satisfied, (3) J[xi]= dPi[xi] "on shell", (4) the current J[xi], the superpotential Pi[xi], and the charge Q[xi] = int J[xi] are invariant under diffeomorphisms and the local Lorentz group. We present a compact derivation of the Noether currents associated with diffeomorphisms and apply the general method to compute the total energy and angular momentum of exact solutions in several physically interesting gravitational models.

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