Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2003-01-20
Annals Phys. 307 (2003) 90-131
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
52 pages, revtex4, uses amsmath and amssymb
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00062-9
For a two-surface B tending to an infinite--radius round sphere at spatial infinity, we consider the Brown--York boundary integral H_B belonging to the energy sector of the gravitational Hamiltonian. Assuming that the lapse function behaves as N \sim 1 in the limit, we find agreement between H_B and the total Arnowitt--Deser--Misner energy, an agreement first noted by Braden, Brown, Whiting, and York. However, we argue that the Arnowitt--Deser--Misner mass--aspect differs from a gauge invariant mass--aspect by a pure divergence on the unit sphere. We also examine the boundary integral H_B corresponding to the Hamiltonian generator of an asymptotic boost, in which case the lapse N \sim x^k grows like one of the asymptotically Cartesian coordinate functions. Such an integral defines the kth component of the center of mass for a Cauchy surface \Sigma bounded by B. In the large--radius limit, we find agreement between H_B and an integral introduced by Beig and O'Murchadha. Although both H_B and the Beig--O'Murchadha integral are naively divergent, they are in fact finite modulo the Hamiltonian constraint. Furthermore, we examine the relationship between H_B and a certain two--surface integral linear in the spacetime Riemann curvature tensor. Similar integrals featuring the curvature appear in works by Ashtekar and Hansen, Penrose, Goldberg, and Hayward. Within the canonical 3+1 formalism, we define gravitational energy and center--of--mass as certain moments of Riemann curvature.
Baskaran Deepak
Lau Stephen R.
Petrov Alexander N.
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