Proof of a decomposition theorem for symmetric tensors on spaces with constant curvature

DOI10.1002/ANDP.200810312zbMATH Open1152.83349arXiv0805.4500OpenAlexW2063676054MaRDI QIDQ3546239FDOQ3546239

Authors: Norbert Straumann 

Publication date: 18 December 2008

Published in: Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In cosmological perturbation theory a first major step consists in the decomposition of the various perturbation amplitudes into scalar, vector and tensor perturbations, which mutually decouple. In performing this decomposition one uses -- beside the Hodge decomposition for one-forms -- an analogous decomposition of symmetric tensor fields of second rank on Riemannian manifolds with constant curvature. While the uniqueness of such a decomposition follows from Gauss' theorem, a rigorous existence proof is not obvious. In this note we establish this for smooth tensor fields, by making use of some important results for linear elliptic differential equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4500

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zbMATH Keywords

elliptic equationsharmonic analysiscosmological perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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