On global conservation laws at null infinity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/8/023MaRDI QIDQ4354812zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph Katz, Dorit Lerer

Publication date 8 December 1997

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9612025

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotically flat backgroundsdifferential conservation laws

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: The ``standard expressions for total energy, linear momentum and also angular momentum of asymptotically flat Bondi metrics at null infinity are also obtained from differential conservation laws on asymptotically flat backgrounds, derived from a quadratic Lagrangian density by methods currently used in classical field theory. It is thus a matter of taste and commodity to use or not to use a reference spacetime in defining these globally conserved quantities. Backgrounds lead to Noe ther conserved currents; the use of backgrounds is in line with classical views on conservation laws. Moreover, the conserved quantities are in principle explicitly related to the sources of gravity through Einstein's equations, while standard definitions are not. The relations depend, however, on a rule for mapping spacetimes on backgrounds.

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