Conservation laws in the teleparallel theory of gravity
M. Blagojevic, M. Vasilic
TL;DR
This paper investigates conservation laws in teleparallel gravity, deriving improved Poincare generators with surface terms that define conserved energy-momentum and angular momentum in the theory.
Contribution
It introduces a method to obtain well-defined Poincare generators with surface terms representing conserved charges in teleparallel gravity.
Findings
Derived improved Poincare generators with surface terms.
Identified surface terms as conserved energy-momentum and angular momentum.
Ensured generators have well-defined functional derivatives.
Abstract
We study the conservation laws associated with the asymptotic Poincare symmetry of spacetime in the general teleparallel theory of gravity. Demanding that the canonical Poincare generators have well defined functional derivatives in a properly defined phase space, we obtain the improved form of the generators, containing certain surface terms. These terms are shown to represent the values of the related conserved charges: energy-momentum and angular momentum.
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