The volume of the past light-cone and the Paneitz operator

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-1014-4zbMATH Open1204.83084arXiv0910.4756OpenAlexW1975292732WikidataQ60154300 ScholiaQ60154300MaRDI QIDQ616173FDOQ616173

Authors: Sohyun Park, R. P. Woodard 

Publication date: 7 January 2011

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a conjecture involving the invariant volume of the past light-cone from an arbitrary observation point back to a fixed initial value surface. The conjecture is that a 4th order differential operator which occurs in the theory of conformal anomalies gives $8pi$ when acted upon the invariant volume of the past light-cone. We show that an extended version of the conjecture is valid for an arbitrary homogeneous and isotropic geometry. First order perturbation theory about flat spacetime reveals a violation of the conjecture which, however, vanishes for any vacuum solution of the Einstein equation. These results may be significant for constructing quantum gravitational observables, for quantifying the back-reaction on spacetime expansion and for alternate gravity models which feature a timelike vector field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4756

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian geometrygeneral relativityalternate gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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