Conservation laws in the teleparallel theory of gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We study the conservation laws associated with the asymptotic Poincare symmetry of spacetime in the general teleparallel theory of gravity. Demanding that the canonical Poincare generators have well defined functional derivatives in a properly defined phase space, we obtain the improved form of the generators, containing certain surface terms. These terms are shown to represent the values of the related conserved charges: energy-momentum and angular momentum.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0008159,
title = {Conservation laws in the teleparallel theory of gravity},
author = {M. Blagojevic and M. Vasilic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0008159},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
22 pages, RevTex, discussion of the angular momentum of the Dirac source solution corrected, twelve references added