Gravitation as a plastic distortion of the Lorentz vacuum.

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-13589-7MaRDI QIDQ708053zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Virginia Velma Fernández, Waldyr A. jun. Rodrigues

Publication date 11 October 2010

Published in Fundamental Theories of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4472

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: In this paper we present a theory of the gravitational field where this field (a kind of square root of g) is represented by a (1,1)-extensor field h describing a plastic distortion of the Lorentz vacuum (a real substance that lives in a Minkowski spacetime) due to the presence of matter. The field h distorts the Minkowski metric extensor in an appropriate way (see below) generating what may be interpreted as an effective Lorentzian metric extensor g and also it permits the introduction of different kinds of parallelism rules on the world manifold, which may be interpreted as distortions of the parallelism structure of Minkowski spacetime and which may have non null curvature and/or torsion and/or nonmetricity tensors. We thus have different possible effective geometries which may be associated to the gravitational field and thus its description by a Lorentzian geometry is only a possibility, not an imposition from Nature. Moreover, we developed with enough details the theory of multiform functions and multiform functionals that permitted us to successfully write a Lagrangian for h and to obtain its equations of motion, that results equivalent to Einstein field equations of General Relativity (for all those solutions where the manifold M is diffeomorphic to R^4. However, in our theory, differently from the case of General Relativity, trustful energy-momentum and angular momentum conservation laws exist. We express also the results of our theory in terms of the gravitational potential 1-form fields (living in Minkowski spacetime) in order to have results which may be easily expressed with the theory of differential forms. The Hamiltonian formalism for our theory (formulated in terms of the potentials) is also discussed. The paper contains also several important Appendices that complete the material in the main text.

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