The small sphere limit of quasilocal energy in higher dimensions along lightcone cuts

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB719DMaRDI QIDQ5161952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jinzhao Wang

Publication date 1 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08485

zbMATH Keywords

Bel-Robinson tensorenergy in general relativityhigher dimensionsquasilocal mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: The problem of quasilocal energy has been extensively studied mainly in four dimensions. Here we report results regarding the quasilocal energy in spacetime dimension $ngeq4$. After generalising three distinct quasilocal energy definitions to higher dimensions under appropriate assumptions, we evaluate their small sphere limits along lightcone cuts shrinking towards the lightcone vertex. The results in vacuum are conveniently represented in terms of the electromagnetic decompositions of the Weyl tensor. We find that the limits at presence of matter yield the stress tensor as expected, but the vacuum limits are in general not proportional to the Bel-Robinson superenergy $Q$ in dimensions $n>4$. The result defies the role of the Bel-Robinson superenergy as characterising the gravitational energy in higher dimensions, albeit the fact that it uniquely generalises. Surprisingly, the Hawking energy and the Brown-York energy exactly agree upon the small sphere limits across all dimensions. The new vacuum limit $mathcalQ$, however, cannot be interpreted as a gravitational energy because of its non-positivity. Furthermore, we also give the small sphere limits of the Kijowski-Epp-Liu-Yau type energy in higher dimensions, and again we see $mathcalQ$ in place of $Q$. Our work extends earlier investigations of the small sphere limits [1, 2, 3, 4], and also complements [5].

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