Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-10-29
Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 104015
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
8 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.104015
Killing-Yano tensors are natural generalizations of Killing vectors to arbitrary rank anti-symmetric tensor fields. It was recently shown that Killing-Yano tensors lead to conserved gravitational charges, called Y-ADM charges. These new charges are interesting because they measure, for example, the mass density of a p-brane, rather than the total ADM mass which may be infinite. In this paper, we show that the spinorial techniques used by Witten, in his proof of the positive energy theorem, may be straightforwardly extended to study the positivity properties of the Y-ADM mass density for p-brane spacetimes. Although the resulting formalism is quite similar to the ADM case, we show that establishing a positivity bound in the higher rank Y-ADM case requires imposing a condition on the Weyl tensor in addition to an energy condition. We find appropriate energy conditions for spacetimes that are conformally flat or algebraically special, and for spacetimes that have an exact Killing vector along the brane. Finally we discuss our expression for the Y-ADM mass density from the Hamiltonian point of view.
Kastor David
Shiromizu Tetsuya
Tomizawa Shinya
Traschen Jennie
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