Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2000-03-08
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 124018
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
54 pages LaTeX, no figures, includes brief summary of results, submitted to Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.124018
Owing to its transformation property under local boosts, the Brown-York quasilocal energy surface density is the analogue of E in the special relativity formula: E^2-p^2=m^2. In this paper I will motivate the general relativistic version of this formula, and thereby arrive at a geometrically natural definition of an `invariant quasilocal energy', or IQE. In analogy with the invariant mass m, the IQE is invariant under local boosts of the set of observers on a given two-surface S in spacetime. A reference energy subtraction procedure is required, but in contrast to the Brown-York procedure, S is isometrically embedded into a four-dimensional reference spacetime. This virtually eliminates the embeddability problem inherent in the use of a three-dimensional reference space, but introduces a new one: such embeddings are not unique, leading to an ambiguity in the reference IQE. However, in this codimension-two setting there are two curvatures associated with S: the curvatures of its tangent and normal bundles. Taking advantage of this fact, I will suggest a possible way to resolve the embedding ambiguity, which at the same time will be seen to incorporate angular momentum into the energy at the quasilocal level. I will analyze the IQE in the following cases: both the spatial and future null infinity limits of a large sphere in asymptotically flat spacetimes; a small sphere shrinking toward a point along either spatial or null directions; and finally, in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. The last case reveals a striking similarity between the reference IQE and a certain counterterm energy recently proposed in the context of the conjectured AdS/CFT correspondence.
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