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Stress Tensor on Null Boundaries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-22 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Using the Brown-York prescription for the definition of quasilocal gravitational energy-momentum tensor on a boundary and also complete canonical structure on a null boundary which has been found recently \cite{Aghapour:2018icu}, we propose a similar stress tensor on the null boundary. Then we exploit this stress tensor to compute the quasi-local energy and angular momentum for some well-known gravitational solutions. We have found that in addition to reference spacetime method for regularizing total energy, in the case of null boundary we can add a possible counterterm so avoiding embedding difficulties.

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@article{arxiv.1901.04054,
  title  = {Stress Tensor on Null Boundaries},
  author = {Ghadir Jafari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04054},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

25 pages, 3 figures,new subsection dealing with null hyperfufaces in AAdS space,some new references have been added,version published in PRD

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