Bowen-York Tensors

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2004-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0403058v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 21 (2004) S73-S79

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

12 pages, Contribution to CQG Special Issue "A Spacetime Safari: Essays in Honour of Vincent Moncrief"

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/21/3/005

There is derived, for a conformally flat three-space, a family of linear second-order partial differential operators which send vectors into tracefree, symmetric two-tensors. These maps, which are parametrized by conformal Killing vectors on the three-space, are such that the divergence of the resulting tensor field depends only on the divergence of the original vector field. In particular these maps send source-free electric fields into TT-tensors. Moreover, if the original vector field is the Coulomb field on $\mathbb{R}^3\backslash \lbrace0\rbrace$, the resulting tensor fields on $\mathbb{R}^3\backslash \lbrace0\rbrace$ are nothing but the family of TT-tensors originally written down by Bowen and York.

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