Old and new results for superenergy tensors from dimensionally dependent tensor identities

DOI10.1063/1.1624094zbMATH Open1063.83007arXivgr-qc/0304099OpenAlexW3106127203MaRDI QIDQ4833231FDOQ4833231

Authors: Ola Wingbrant, S. Brian Edgar 

Publication date: 14 December 2004

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that some results for spinors, and in particular for superenergy spinors, are much less transparent and require a lot more effort to establish, when considered from the tensor viewpoint. In this paper we demonstrate how the use of dimensionally dependent tensor identities enables us to derive a number of 4-dimensional identities by straightforward tensor methods in a signature independent manner. In particular, we consider the quadratic identity for the Bel-Robinson tensor ${calT}_{abcx}{calT}^{abcy}=delt{a}_x^y{calT}_{abcd}{calT}^{abcd}/4$ and also the new conservation laws for the Chevreton tensor, both of which have been obtained by spinor means; both of these results are rederived by {it tensor} means for 4-dimensional spaces of any signature, using dimensionally dependent identities, and also we are able to conclude that there are no {it direct} higher dimensional analogues. In addition we demonstrate a simple way to show non-existense of such identities via counter examples; in particular we show that there is no non-trivial Bel tensor analogue of this simple Bel-Robinson tensor quadratic identity. On the other hand, as a sample of the power of generalising dimensionally dependent tensor identities from four to higher dimensions, we show that the symmetry structure, trace-free and divergence-free nature of the four dimensional Bel-Robinson tensor does have an analogue for a class of tensors in higher dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304099

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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