Actions for Vacuum Einstein's Equation with a Killing Symmetry
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
In a space-time with a Killing vector field which is either everywhere timelike or everywhere spacelike, the collection of all trajectories of gives a 3-dimension space . Besides the symmetry-reduced action from that of Einstein-Hilbert, an alternative action of the fields on is also proposed, which gives the same fields equations as those reduced from the vacuum Einstein equation on .
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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