Monday, 1 June 2020

lagrangian formalism - Pass to globally conserved currents from locally conserved currents in curved spacetime


Let us begin with a Lagrangian of the form


L=12ggμνμϕ(x)νϕ(x)+Lg,


where Lg=116πkgR. Suppose as well that there are no Killing vectors associated to the metric gμν except for, say, a global timelike Killing vector if it helps the argument.


Associated to L is a locally conserved set of 10 currents from the Poincare group:


Tμν=μϕ(x)νϕ(x)gμνL



for each spacetime translation, and ϵαβxαTμβ for each spacetime rotation.


Locally we have μTμν=0 so these quantities are conserved only locally.


My question is, what is the obstacle to patching these locally conserved quantities together to make a globally conserved quantity:


Q=T0νfνd3x


with


dQ/dt=0


where fν might be a gluing function connecting the momentum flowing out of one patch of infinitesimal volume and into another?


(Edit: I realize there may not be a tensor associated to this conserved quantity but even a pseudo tensor involving only the fields would be satisfying, if it exists. So for example, to get the ball rolling, we can start with an object of the form


Mλμν=12xλaμdsTμν(s)12xμaμdsTλν(s),


and then set tμν=λMλμν.



tμν is a psuedo tensor that is conserved μtμν=0 generically by the antisymmetry in λ, μ. Thus,


tμν=Tμν(x)+12xμds λTλν(s)+12δμλTλν(x|xμ=aμ).


In flat space this quantity is almost the tensor we are looking for up to the boundary term 12δμλTλν(x|xμ=aμ) where δμλ is a Kronecker delta.


Of course, the boundary term ruins it from working in the limit. That, and the lack of symmetry in mu and nu, but this should give the idea of what could work with a better choice of starting point.)




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