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Actions for Vacuum Einstein's Equation with a Killing Symmetry

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

In a space-time MM with a Killing vector field ξa\xi^a which is either everywhere timelike or everywhere spacelike, the collection of all trajectories of ξa\xi^a gives a 3-dimension space SS. Besides the symmetry-reduced action from that of Einstein-Hilbert, an alternative action of the fields on SS is also proposed, which gives the same fields equations as those reduced from the vacuum Einstein equation on MM.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0212101,
  title  = {Actions for Vacuum Einstein's Equation with a Killing Symmetry},
  author = {Han He and Yongge Ma and Xuejun Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0212101},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, the difference between the action we proposed and the symmetry-reduced action is clarified