A gravitational energy–momentum and the thermodynamic description of gravity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAB1C7zbMATH Open1391.83035arXiv1802.09208OpenAlexW2787903832WikidataQ130209471 ScholiaQ130209471MaRDI QIDQ3177401FDOQ3177401

David Kofroň, Martin Scholtz, G. Acquaviva

Publication date: 25 July 2018

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

Abstract: A proposal for the gravitational energy-momentum tensor, known in the literature as the square root of Bel-Robinson tensor, is analyzed in detail. Being constructed exclusively from the Weyl part of the Riemann tensor, such tensor encapsulates the geometric properties of free gravitational fields in terms of optical scalars of null congruences: making use of the general decomposition of any energymomentum tensor, we explore the thermodynamic interpretation of such geometric quantities. While the matter energy-momentum is identically conserved due to Einstein's field equations, the SQBR is not necessarily conserved and dissipative terms could arise in its vacuum continuity equation. We discuss the possible physical interpretations of such mathematical properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09208

zbMATH Keywords

gravito-electromagnetismBel-Robinson tensorgravitational thermodynamicssquare root of Bel-Robinson tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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