Approximate spacetime symmetries and conservation laws

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/20/205008zbMATH Open1152.83021arXiv0805.4259OpenAlexW3100053897WikidataQ59328014 ScholiaQ59328014MaRDI QIDQ3535560FDOQ3535560

Authors: Abraham I. Harte 

Publication date: 13 November 2008

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

Abstract: A notion of geometric symmetry is introduced that generalizes the classical concepts of Killing fields and other affine collineations. There is a sense in which flows under these new vector fields minimize deformations of the connection near a specified observer. Any exact affine collineations that may exist are special cases. The remaining vector fields can all be interpreted as analogs of Poincare and other well-known symmetries near timelike worldlines. Approximate conservation laws generated by these objects are discussed for both geodesics and extended matter distributions. One example is a generalized Komar integral that may be taken to define the linear and angular momenta of a spacetime volume as seen by a particular observer. This is evaluated explicitly for a gravitational plane wave spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4259

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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