Super-energy tensor for space-times with vanishing scalar curvature

Details Super-energy tensor for space-times with vanishing scalar curvature Super-energy tensor for space-times with vanishing scalar curvature

1999-04-14

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9904031v1

J.Math.Phys. 40 (1999) 3053-3062

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

13 pages, LaTeX 2.09. To be published in Journal of Mathematical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.532743

A four-index tensor is constructed with terms both quadratic in the Riemann tensor and linear in its second derivatives, which has zero divergence for space-times with vanishing scalar curvature. This tensor reduces in vacuum to the Bel-Robinson tensor. Furthermore, the completely timelike component referred to any observer is positive, and zero if and only if the space-time is flat (excluding some unphysical space-times). We also show that this tensor is the unique that can be constructed with these properties. Such a tensor does not exist for general gravitational fields. Finally, we study this tensor in several examples: the Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker space-times filled with radiation, the plane-fronted gravitational waves, and the Vaidya radiating metric.

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