2011
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.83.084006
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Physical decomposition of the gauge and gravitational fields

Abstract: Physical decomposition of the non-Abelian gauge field has recently solved the two-decade-lasting problem of a meaningful gluon spin. Here we extend this approach to gravity and attack the century-lasting problem of a meaningful gravitational energy. The metric is unambiguously separated into a pure geometric term which contributes null curvature tensor, and a physical term which represents the true gravitational effect and always vanishes in a flat space-time. By this decomposition the conventional pseudo-tens… Show more

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“…(8) to the maximum extent [7,8]. On the other hand, there is always existed a useful gauge, which also claims can remove all gauge freedom of gravitational field, is transverse-traceless (TT) gauge for long time (first proposed by Arnowitt, Deser and Misner (ADM) [2]) and also be discussed in Ref.…”
Section: Into Linearized Einstein's Field Equation Belowmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(8) to the maximum extent [7,8]. On the other hand, there is always existed a useful gauge, which also claims can remove all gauge freedom of gravitational field, is transverse-traceless (TT) gauge for long time (first proposed by Arnowitt, Deser and Misner (ADM) [2]) and also be discussed in Ref.…”
Section: Into Linearized Einstein's Field Equation Belowmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It means we can eliminate the spurious gravitational effect of the gravitational energy density by using the physical termˆ   instead of    and using the pure-gauge covariant derivatives instead of covariant derivatives. In Ref [4], we also presented the concrete procedure to compute a physically meaningful energy density of the gravitational field. For a finite and weak gravitational system, we can use vanishing boundary values, and apply perturbative expansions for bothˆ …”
Section: Eq (3)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Ref. [2], the metric tensor g  is unambiguously decomposed into the sum of a physical termĝ  , which represents the true gravitational effect, and a pure geometric term g  , which represents the spurious gravitational effect associated with coordinate choice. Affine connection is also decomposed into physical part and pure geometric part: …”
Section: Physical Decomposition and Gauge-fixing Condition Of Gravitamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unfortunately, the energy-momentum tensor of gravitational field is still an unsolved problem for 100 years. Only recent years, we revisited this old problem through the physical decomposition of gravitational field [2]. Only after solving the gauge-dependent problem of energy density of gravitational field, we can do attempt to research the energy density relation between moving electric charge and moving gravity "charge".…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%