Can Witten spinor Hamiltonian formulation describe the GR angular momentum?

TL;DR

This paper investigates whether Witten's spinor Hamiltonian formulation can be extended to describe the angular momentum in General Relativity, finding that current candidates do not succeed in quasilocalization.

Contribution

The study introduces four quadratic spinor Hamiltonian candidates for GR angular momentum within Witten's framework and evaluates their effectiveness.

Findings

None of the four candidates achieve quasilocalization of angular momentum.

The results highlight challenges in extending Witten's formalism to angular momentum.

Discussion on the importance of including angular momentum in Witten's approach.

Abstract

The Witten spinor Hamiltonian formulation has previously been shown to be able to yield a quasilocalization for the GR energy-momentum which leads to a proof of the positive energy when the spinor satisfies the Witten equation. In this work we investigate whether this formulation can also describe the GR angular momentum. We conceive four candidates of the quadratic spinor Hamiltonian for the angular momentum based on Witten's scheme. The first one is acquired by substituting the spinor pseudovectorial parameterization for the spinor vectorial parameterization of the displacement in the Witten Hamiltonian. The other three each are composed of other quadratic spinor terms, all with the displacement consisting of the spinor parameterization of an antisymmetric 2-rank tensor and a position vector, one having 4 terms and the others each having twice distinct 2 of the 4 terms. With possible field perturbations around the at spacetime we find none of the four candidates can give the angular momentum quasilocalization. The importance and prospects for successfully including the angular momentum in Witten's formalism are discussed.