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Energy-momentum current for coframe gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The obstruction for the existence of an energy momentum tensor for the gravitational field is connected with differential-geometric features of the Riemannian manifold. It has not to be valid for alternative geometrical structures. A teleparallel manifold is defined as a parallelizable differentiable 4D-manifold endowed with a class of smooth coframe fields related by global Lorentz, i.e., SO(1,3) transformations. In this article a general free parametric class of teleparallel models is considered. It includes a 1-parameter subclass of viable models with the Schwarzschild coframe solution. A new form of the coframe field equation is derived from the general teleparallel Lagrangian by introducing the notion of a 3-parameter conjugate field strength \Fa\F^a. The field equation turns out to have a form completely similar to the Maxwell field equation d\Fa=\Tad*\F^a=\T^a. By applying the Noether procedure, the source 3-form \Ta\T^a is shown to be connected with the diffeomorphism invariance of the Lagrangian. Thus the source \Ta\T^a of the coframe field is interpreted as the total conserved energy-momentum current. The energy-momentum tensor for coframe is defined. The total energy-momentum current of a system of a coframe and a material fields is conserved. Thus a redistribution of the energy-momentum current between a material and a coframe (gravity) fields is possible in principle, unlike as in the standard GR. For special values of parameters, when the GR is reinstated, the energy-momentum tensor gives up the invariant sense, i.e., becomes a pseudo-tensor. Thus even a small-parametric change of GR turns it into a well defined Lagrangian theory.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0111036,
  title  = {Energy-momentum current for coframe gravity},
  author = {Yakov Itin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0111036},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, to appear in Class.Quant.Grav

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