DIFFERENTIAL FORMS AND WAVE EQUATIONS FOR GENERAL RELATIVITY

DOI10.1142/S0218271898000577zbMATH Open0933.58029arXivgr-qc/9612020OpenAlexW3098477301MaRDI QIDQ4937007FDOQ4937007

Authors: Stephen R. Lau 

Publication date: 2 February 2000

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, Choquet-Bruhat and York and Abrahams, Anderson, Choquet-Bruhat, and York (AACY) have cast the 3+1 evolution equations of general relativity in gauge-covariant and causal ``first-order symmetric hyperbolic form, thereby cleanly separating physical from gauge degrees of freedom in the Cauchy problem for general relativity. A key ingredient in their construction is a certain wave equation which governs the light-speed propagation of the extrinsic curvature tensor. Along a similar line, we construct a related wave equation which, as the key equation in a system, describes vacuum general relativity. Whereas the approach of AACY is based on tensor-index methods, the present formulation is written solely in the language of differential forms. Our approach starts with Sparling's tetrad-dependent differential forms, and our wave equation governs the propagation of Sparling's 2-form, which in the ``time-gauge is built linearly from the ``extrinsic curvature 1-form. The tensor-index version of our wave equation describes the propagation of (what is essentially) the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner gravitational momentum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9612020

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zbMATH Keywords

wave equationdifferential formsvacuum general relativitySparling's two-form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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