Construction of local conservation laws by generalized isometric embeddings of vector bundles

Cartan-Janet theorem Cartan-Kähler theory conservation laws conservation laws for energy-momentum tensors exterior differential systems generalized isometric embeddings of vector bundles isometric embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embedding of analytic spaces (32C22) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15)

Abstract: This article uses Cartan-K"ahler theory to construct local conservation laws from covariantly closed vector valued differential forms, objects that can be given, for example, by harmonic maps between two Riemannian manifolds. We apply the article's main result to construct conservation laws for covariant divergence free energy-momentum tensors. We also generalize the local isometric embedding of surfaces in the analytic case by applying the main result to vector bundles of rank two over any surface.

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The author proves a result similar to the Cartan-Janet isometric embedding theorem. Over a Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\), he considers a real vector bundle \(V\) with a real analytic metric and a compatible real analytic connection. On this manifold, take any nowhere vanishing \(V\)-valued covariant constant differential form \(\omega\) of degree \(n-1\). The author proves that near each point of the manifold, the vector bundle admits a local real analytic embedding into a flat vector bundle, say \(W\), so that the \(W\)-valued differential form induced by \(\omega\) is closed. He provides applications to harmonic maps and to the study of energy-momentum tensors in general relativity.

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