Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1999-09-21
Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 1749-1764
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
10 pages, revtex. Published version with further details
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/17/8/302
Gravitational waves in cylindrically symmetric Einstein gravity are described by an effective energy tensor with the same form as that of a massless Klein- Gordon field, in terms of a gravitational potential generalizing the Newtonian potential. Energy-momentum vectors for the gravitational waves and matter are defined with respect to a canonical flow of time. The combined energy-momentum is covariantly conserved, the corresponding charge being the modified Thorne energy. Energy conservation is formulated as the first law expressing the gradient of the energy as work and energy-supply terms, including the energy flux of the gravitational waves. Projecting this equation along a trapping horizon yields a first law of black-hole dynamics containing the expected term involving area and surface gravity, where the dynamic surface gravity is defined with respect to the canonical flow of time. A first law for dynamic cosmic strings also follows. The Einstein equation is written as three wave equations plus the first law, each with sources determined by the combined energy tensor of the matter and gravitational waves.
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