Cohomology and MP Spacetimes

arXiv0803.1673MaRDI QIDQ6208729FDOQ6208729

Authors: Richard Kenneth Atkins 

Publication date: 11 March 2008

Abstract: This paper pursues a cohomological formulation for gravitation in which gravity might be expressed in terms of a gravitational potential, much in the spirit of electrodynamics. To this end we introduce a cochain complex consisting of $(n+2)$-tensors, symmetric in two indices and skew-symmetric in the remaining $n$ indices. The cohomology of the complex is shown to be isomorphic to the v{C}ech cohomology of an appropriately defined sheaf of functions. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that in isotropic coordinates MP spacetimes as well as the Schwarzschild black hole may be thusly represented, that is, by means of the coboundary of a potential, as defined by the differential operator of the complex.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Sheaf cohomology in algebraic topology (55N30)

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