Spinors and the reference point of quasilocal energy

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/4/013MaRDI QIDQ4834977zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephen R. Lau

Publication date 13 June 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9409022

zbMATH Keywords

quasilocal energySen-Witten equationspinorsWitten-Nester integral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between the quasilocal energy of Brown and York and certain spinorial expressions for gravitational energy constructed from the Witten-Nester integral. A key feature of the Brown-York method for defining quasilocal energy is that it allows for the freedom to assign the reference point of the energy. When possible, it is perhaps most natural to reference the energy against flat space, i.e. assign flat-space the zero value of energy. It is demonstrated that the Witten-Nester integral when evaluated on solution spinors to the Sen-Witten equation (obeying appropriate boundary conditions) is essentially the Brown-York quasilocal energy with a reference point determined by the Sen-Witten spinors. For the case of round spheres in the Schwarzschild geometry, these spinors determine the flat-space reference point. A similar viewpoint is proposed for the Schwarzschild-case quasilocal energy of Dougan and Mason.

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