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Asymptotic conservation laws in field theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A new, general, field theoretic approach to the derivation of asymptotic conservation laws is presented. In this approach asymptotic conservation laws are constructed directly from the field equations according to a universal prescription which does not rely upon the existence of Noether identities or any Lagrangian or Hamiltonian formalisms. The resulting general expressions of the conservation laws enjoy important invariance properties and synthesize all known asymptotic conservation laws, such as the ADM energy in general relativity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608008,
  title  = {Asymptotic conservation laws in field theory},
  author = {I. M. Anderson and C. G. Torre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608008},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, AMS-TeX, amsppt.sty, revised to give a better exposition (we hope), and to correct some typesetting errors

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