Symmetric teleparallel general relativity
| dc.creator | Nester, J. M. | |
| dc.creator | Yo, H-J | |
| dc.date | 1998-09-17 | |
| dc.date | 1999-02-24 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:32:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:32:39Z | |
| dc.description | General relativity can be presented in terms of other geometries besides Riemannian. In particular, teleparallel geometry (i.e., curvature vanishes) has some advantages, especially concerning energy-momentum localization and its ``translational gauge theory'' nature. The standard version is metric compatible, with torsion representing the gravitational ``force''. However there are many other possibilities. Here we focus on an interesting alternate extreme: curvature and torsion vanish but the nonmetricity $\nabla g$ does not---it carries the ``gravitational force''. This {\it symmetric teleparallel} representation of general relativity covariantizes (and hence legitimizes) the usual coordinate calculations. The associated energy-momentum density is essentially the Einstein pseudotensor, but in this novel geometric representation it is a true tensor. | |
| dc.description | Plain TeX, 6 pages, no figures, minor improvements, accepted by Chinese Journal of Physics | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9809049 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9809049 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/36312 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Symmetric teleparallel general relativity | |
| dc.type | text |