Local freedom in the gravitational field

Details Local freedom in the gravitational field Local freedom in the gravitational field

1996-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9611003v2

Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 1927-1936

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

New results on gravitational waves included; new references added; revised version (IOP style) to appear Class. Quantum Grav

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/14/7/025

In a cosmological context, the electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor, E_{ab} and H_{ab}, represent the locally free curvature - i.e. they are not pointwise determined by the matter fields. By performing a complete covariant decomposition of the derivatives of E_{ab} and H_{ab}, we show that the parts of the derivative of the curvature which are locally free (i.e. not pointwise determined by the matter via the Bianchi identities) are exactly the symmetrised trace-free spatial derivatives of E_{ab} and H_{ab} together with their spatial curls. These parts of the derivatives are shown to be crucial for the existence of gravitational waves.

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