Spinor Formulations for Gravitational Energy-Momentum
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We first describe a class of spinor-curvature identities (SCI) which have gravitational applications. Then we sketch the topic of gravitational energy-momentum, its connection with Hamiltonian boundary terms and the issues of positivity and (quasi)localization. Using certain SCIs several spinor expressions for the Hamiltonian have been constructed. One SCI leads to the celebrated Witten positive energy proof and the Dougan-Mason quasilocalization. We found two other SCIs which give alternate positive energy proofs and quasilocalizations. In each case the spinor field has a different role. These neat expressions for gravitational energy-momentum have much appeal. However it seems that such spinor formulations just have no room for angular momentum; which leads us to doubt that spinor formulations can really correctly capture the elusive gravitational energy-momentum.
references added, final version to appear in the Proceeding of the 6th Conference on Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics (Cookeville, Tennessee, 20-25 May, 2002)
references added, final version to appear in the Proceeding of the 6th Conference on Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics (Cookeville, Tennessee, 20-25 May, 2002)