Energy-momentum tensors and motion in special relativity

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-18335-0_3zbMATH Open1338.83004arXiv1502.03930OpenAlexW2150361513MaRDI QIDQ2804105FDOQ2804105

Authors: Domenico Giulini 

Publication date: 27 April 2016

Published in: Fundamental Theories of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The notions of "motion" and "conserved quantities", if applied to extended objects, are already quite non-trivial in Special Relativity. This contribution is meant to remind us on all the relevant mathematical structures and constructions that underlie these concepts, which we will review in some detail. Next to the prerequisites from Special Relativity, like Minkowski space and its automorphism group, this will include the notion of a body in Minkowski space, the momentum map, a characterisation of the habitat of globally conserved quantities associated with Poincar'e symmetry -- so called Poincar'e charges --, the frame-dependent decomposition of global angular momentum into Spin and an orbital part, and, last not least, the likewise frame-dependent notion of centre of mass together with a geometric description of the Moeller Radius, of which we also list some typical values. Two Appendices present some mathematical background material on Hodge duality and group actions on manifolds. This is a contribution to the book: "Equations of Motion in Relativistic Gravity", edited by Dirk Puetzfeld and Claus Laemmerzahl, to be published by Springer Verlag.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03930

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Special relativity (83A05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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