Local freedom in the gravitational field revisited

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/15/019MaRDI QIDQ5485564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. J. Pareja, Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

Publication date 30 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605075

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

Abstract: Maartens {it et al.}@ gave a covariant characterization, in a 1+3 formalism based on a perfect fluid's velocity, of the parts of the first derivatives of the curvature tensor in general relativity which are ``locally free, i.e. not pointwise determined by the fluid energy momentum and its derivative. The full decomposition of independent curvature derivative components given in earlier work on the spinor approach to the equivalence problem enables analogous general results to be stated for any order: the independent matter terms can also be characterized. Explicit relations between the two sets of results are obtained. The 24 Maartens {it et al.} locally free data are shown to correspond to the $ablaPsi$ quantities in the spinor approach, and the fluid terms are similarly related to the remaining 16 independent quantities in the first derivatives of the curvature.

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