The gauge condition in gravitation theory with a background metric

2003/01/19 by G. Sardanashvily, Sardanashvily, G.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0301066

5 pages

arxiv created 2003/01/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

In gravitation theory with a background metric, a gravitational field is described by a (1,1)-tensor field. The energy-momentum conservation law imposes a gauge condition on this field.

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