English

Matching tetrads in f(T) gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-05-05 v2

Abstract

The procedure underlying the matching of 1-form (tetrad) fields in theories possessing absolute parallelism -- f(T) gravity being within this category -- is addressed and exemplified. We show that the remnant symmetries of the intervening spaces play a central role in the process, because the knowledge of the remnant group of local Lorentz transformations enables one to perform rotations and/or boosts in order to C1\mathcal{C}^{1}-match the corresponding tetrads on the junction surface. This automatically ensures the continuity of the Weitzenb\"{o}ck scalar there, even though this proves to be just a necessary condition in order to obtain a global parallelization of the spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.2103.13903,
  title  = {Matching tetrads in f(T) gravity},
  author = {Franco Fiorini and Martín Onetto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13903},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, one figure. Final version published in PRD

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