Conservation Laws in General Relativity as the Generators of Coordinate Transformations

1958 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Bergmann
2019 ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Steven Carlip

The Einstein field equations are the fundamental equations of general relativity. After a brief qualitative discussion of geodesic deviation and Newtonian gravity, this chapter derives the field equations from the Einstein-Hilbert action. The chapter contains a derivation of Noether’s theorem and the consequent conservation laws, and a brief discussion of generalizations of the Einstein-Hilbert action.


1963 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hyde

It was shown by Birkhoff ((1), p. 253) that every spherically symmetric solution of the field equations of general relativity for empty space,may be reduced, by suitable coordinate transformations, to the static Schwarzschild form:where m is a constant. This result is known as Birkhoff's theorem and excludes the possibility of spherically symmetric gravitational radiation. Different proofs of the theorem have been given by Eiesland(2), Tolman(3), and Bonnor ((4), p. 167).


Universe ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Roman Ilin ◽  
Sergey Paston

The current paper is devoted to the investigation of the general form of the energy–momentum pseudotensor (pEMT) and the corresponding superpotential for the wide class of theories. The only requirement for such a theory is the general covariance of the action without any restrictions on the order of derivatives of the independent variables in it or their transformation laws. As a result of the generalized Noether procedure, we obtain a recurrent chain of the equations, which allows one to express canonical pEMT as a divergence of the superpotential. The explicit expression for this superpotential is also given. We discuss the structure of the obtained expressions and the conditions for the derived pEMT conservation laws to be satisfied independently (fully or partially) by the equations of motion. Deformations of the superpotential form for theories with a change in the independent variables in action are also considered. We apply these results to some interesting particular cases: general relativity and its modifications, particularly mimetic gravity and Regge–Teitelboim embedding gravity.


2018 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 07001
Author(s):  
Andrej Arbuzov ◽  
Boris Latosh

A gravity model based on the conformal symmetry is presented. To specify the structure of the general coordinate transformations the Ogievetsky theorem is applied. The nonlinear symmetry realization approach is used. Canonical quantization is performed with the use of reparameterizationinvariant time and the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner foliation. Renormalizability of the constructed quantum gravity model is discussed.


1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Cattaneo

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (14) ◽  
pp. 2043029
Author(s):  
Marius Oltean ◽  
Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam ◽  
Richard J. Epp

Quasilocal definitions of stress-energy–momentum—that is, in the form of boundary densities (in lieu of local volume densities) — have proven generally very useful in formulating and applying conservation laws in general relativity. In this Essay, we take a basic look into applying these to cosmology, specifically using the Brown–York quasilocal stress-energy–momentum tensor for matter and gravity combined. We compute this tensor and present some simple results for a flat FLRW spacetime with a perfect fluid matter source. We emphasize the importance of the vacuum energy, which is almost universally underappreciated (and usually “subtracted”), and discuss the quasilocal interpretation of the cosmological constant.


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