Weiss variation for general boundaries

DOI10.1007/S10714-022-02953-0zbMATH Open1500.83002arXiv2111.06897OpenAlexW3214332830WikidataQ113901666 ScholiaQ113901666MaRDI QIDQ2159336FDOQ2159336

Authors: Justin C. Feng, Sumanta Chakraborty 

Publication date: 29 July 2022

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Weiss variation of the Einstein-Hilbert action with an appropriate boundary term has been studied for general boundary surfaces; the boundary surfaces can be spacelike, timelike, or null. To achieve this we introduce an auxiliary reference connection and find that the resulting Weiss variation yields the Einstein equations as expected, with additional boundary contributions. Among these boundary contributions, we obtain the dynamical variable and the associated conjugate momentum, irrespective of the spacelike, timelike or, null nature of the boundary surface. We also arrive at the generally non-vanishing covariant generalization of the Einstein energy-momentum pseudotensor. We study this tensor in the Schwarzschild geometry and find that the pseudotensorial ambiguities translate into ambiguities in the choice of coordinates on the reference geometry. Moreover, we show that from the Weiss variation, one can formally derive a gravitational Schr{"o}dinger equation, which may, despite ambiguities in the definition of the Hamiltonian, be useful as a tool for studying the problem of time in quantum general relativity. Implications have been discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06897

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zbMATH Keywords

Weiss variationgeneral boundariesgravitational energy momentum tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Boundary value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G30)

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