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On the canonical energy of weak gravitational fields with a cosmological constant $\Lambda \in \mathbb{R}$

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-09-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyse the canonical energy of vacuum linearised gravitational fields on light cones on a de Sitter, Minkowski, and Anti de Sitter backgrounds in Bondi gauge. We derive the associated asymptotic symmetries. When Λ>0\Lambda>0 the energy diverges, but a renormalised formula with well defined flux is obtained. We show that the renormalised energy in the asymptotically off-diagonal gauge coincides with the quadratisation of the generalisation of the Trautman-Bondi mass proposed in [13].

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@article{arxiv.2103.05982,
  title  = {On the canonical energy of weak gravitational fields with a cosmological constant $\Lambda \in \mathbb{R}$},
  author = {P. T. Chruściel and Sk J. Hoque and M. Maliborski and T. Smołka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.05982},
  year   = {2021}
}

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minor improvements in the presentation, retypeset in EPJC preprint style