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Dominant property for the Bel-Robinson tensor and tensor S

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-12-23 v1

Abstract

The Bel-Robinson tensor contains many nice mathematical properties and its dominant energy condition is desirable for describing the positive gravitational energy. The dominant property is a basic requirement for the quasi-local mass, i.e., in small sphere limit. We claim that there exists another option, a linear combination between the Bel-Robinson tensor BB and tensor SS, which contributes the same dominant property. Moreover, using the 5 Petrov types as the verification, we found that this dominant property justification for the Bel-Robinson tensor can be simplified as examining B0000Bαβ00B_{0000}\geq|B_{\alpha\beta{}00}| and B0000B0123B_{0000}\geq|B_{0123}|, instead of B0000BαβλσB_{0000}\geq|B_{\alpha\beta\lambda\sigma}| for all α,β,λ,σ=0,1,2,3\alpha,\beta,\lambda,\sigma=0,1,2,3.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1612.07664,
  title  = {Dominant property for the Bel-Robinson tensor and tensor S},
  author = {Lau Loi So},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07664},
  year   = {2016}
}

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