Algebraic Rainich theory and antisymmetrization in higher dimensions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/12/316zbMATH Open1004.83042arXivgr-qc/0202092OpenAlexW2047005882MaRDI QIDQ4549991FDOQ4549991

Authors: Göran Bergqvist, A. Höglund 

Publication date: 8 February 2003

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

Abstract: The classical Rainich(-Misner-Wheeler) theory gives necessary and sufficient conditions on an energy-momentum tensor $T$ to be that of a Maxwell field (a 2-form) in four dimensions. Via Einstein's equations these conditions can be expressed in terms of the Ricci tensor, thus providing conditions on a spacetime geometry for it to be an Einstein-Maxwell spacetime. One of the conditions is that $T^2$ is proportional to the metric, and it has previously been shown in arbitrary dimension that any tensor satisfying this condition is a superenergy tensor of a simple $p$-form. Here we examine algebraic Rainich conditions for general $p$-forms in higher dimensions and their relations to identities by antisymmetrisation. Using antisymmetrisation techniques we find new identities for superenergy tensors of these general (non-simple) forms, and we also prove in some cases the converse; that the identities are sufficient to determine the form. As an example we obtain the complete generalisation of the classical Rainich theory to five dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0202092

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zbMATH Keywords

superenergy tensorRainich theoryEinstein-Maxwell spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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