Noether's theorem, the stress-energy tensor and Hamiltonian constraints

Details Noether's theorem, the stress-energy tensor and Hamiltonian constraints Noether's theorem, the stress-energy tensor and Hamiltonian constraints

2006-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0608096v4

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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Noether's theorem is reviewed with a particular focus on an intermediate step between global and local gauge and coordinate transformations, namely linear transformations. We rederive the well known result that global symmetry leads to charge conservation (Noether's first theorem), and show that linear symmetry allows for the current to be expressed as a four divergence. Local symmetry leads to identical conservation of the current and allows for the expression of the charge as two dimensional surface integral (Noether's second theorem). In the context of coordinate transformations, an additional step (Poincare symmetry) is of physical interest and leads to the definition of the symmetric Belinfante stress-energy tensor, which is then shown to be identically zero in generally covariant first order theories. The intermediate step of linear symmetry turns out to be important in general relativity when the customary first order Lagrangian is used, which is covariant only under affine transformations. In addition, we derive explicitely the canonical stress-energy tensor in second order theories in its identically conserved form. Finally, we analyze the relations between the generators of local transformations, the corresponding currents and the Hamiltonian constraints.

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