Gravito-electromagnetism

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Publication:4240795

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/3/018zbMATH Open0913.53044arXivgr-qc/9704059OpenAlexW3037321520WikidataQ63390706 ScholiaQ63390706MaRDI QIDQ4240795FDOQ4240795


Authors: Roy Maartens, B. A. Bassett Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 9 June 1999

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

Abstract: We develop and apply a fully covariant 1+3 electromagnetic analogy for gravity. The free gravitational field is covariantly characterized by the Weyl gravito-electric and gravito-magnetic spatial tensor fields, whose dynamical equations are the Bianchi identities. Using a covariant generalization of spatial vector algebra and calculus to spatial tensor fields, we exhibit the covariant analogy between the tensor Bianchi equations and the vector Maxwell equations. We identify gravitational source terms, couplings and potentials with and without electromagnetic analogues. The nonlinear vacuum Bianchi equations are shown to be invariant under covariant spatial duality rotation of the gravito-electric and gravito-magnetic tensor fields. We construct the super-energy density and super-Poynting vector of the gravitational field as natural U(1) group invariants, and derive their super-energy conservation equation. A covariant approach to gravito-electric/magnetic monopoles is also presented.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704059




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