2010/07/23 by L. Fatibene, M. Ferraris, M. Francaviglia +2 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Conservation law #Conserved quantity #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Covariance #Covariant transformation #Curvature #Einstein #General covariance #General relativity #Geometry #Hamiltonian (control theory) #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Theoretical physics #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.aop.2012.02.010
40 pages
arxiv created 2010/07/23 · openalex publication_date 2012/02/20 · arxiv updated 2015/05/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The ADM formalism is reviewed and techniques for decomposing generic components of metric, connection and curvature are obtained. These techniques will turn out to be enough to decompose not only Einstein equations but also covariant conservation laws. Then a number of independent sets of hypotheses that are sufficient (though non-necessary) to obtain standard ADM quantities (and Hamiltonian) from covariant conservation laws are considered. This determines explicitely the range in which standard techniques are equivalent to covariant conserved quantities. The Schwarzschild metric in different coordinates is then considered, showing how the standard ADM quantities fail dramatically in non-Cartesian coordinates or even worse when asymptotically flatness is not manifest; while, in view of their covariance, covariant conservation laws give the correct result in all cases.