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Bringing Together Gravity and the Quanta
Due to its underlying gauge structure, teleparallel gravity achieves a
separation between inertial and gravitational effects. It can, in consequence,
describe the isolated gravitational interaction without resorting to the
equivalence principle, and is able to provide a tensorial definition for the
energy-momentum density of the gravitational field. Considering the conceptual
conflict between the local equivalence principle and the nonlocal uncertainty
principle, the replacement of general relativity by its teleparallel equivalent
can be considered an important step towards a prospective reconciliation
between gravitation and quantum mechanics.Comment: 9 pages. Contribution to the proceedings of the Albert Einstein
Century International Conference, Paris, 18-22 July, 200
Teleparallel Spin Connection
A new expression for the spin connection of teleparallel gravity is proposed,
given by minus the contorsion tensor plus a zero connection. The corresponding
minimal coupling is covariant under local Lorentz transformation, and
equivalent to the minimal coupling prescription of general relativity. With
this coupling prescription, therefore, teleparallel gravity turns out to be
fully equivalent to general relativity, even in the presence of spinor fields.Comment: 2 pages, RevTeX, to appear in Phys. Rev D (Brief Report
Gravitational Energy-Momentum Density in Teleparallel Gravity
In the context of a gauge theory for the translation group, a conserved
energy-momentum gauge current for the gravitational field is obtained. It is a
true spacetime and gauge tensor, and transforms covariantly under global
Lorentz transformations. By rewriting the gauge gravitational field equation in
a purely spacetime form, it becomes the teleparallel equivalent of Einstein's
equation, and the gauge current reduces to the M{\o}ller's canonical
energy-momentum density of the gravitational field.Comment: RevTeX, 4 pages, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Energy of general 4-dimensional stationary axisymmetric spacetime in the teleparallel geometry
The field equation with the cosmological constant term is derived and the
energy of the general 4-dimensional stationary axisymmetric spacetime is
studied in the context of the hamiltonian formulation of the teleparallel
equivalent of general relativity (TEGR). We find that, by means of the integral
form of the constraints equations of the formalism naturally without any
restriction on the metric parameters, the energy for the asymptotically flat/de
Sitter/Anti-de Sitter stationary spacetimes in the Boyer-Lindquist coordinate
can be expressed as . It is surprised to learn that the
energy expression is relevant to the metric components ,
and only. As examples, by using this formula
we calculate the energies of the Kerr-Newman (KN), Kerr-Newman Anti-de Sitter
(KN-AdS), Kaluza-Klein, and Cveti\v{c}-Youm spacetimes.Comment: 12 page
Teleparallel Equivalent of Non-Abelian Kaluza-Klein Theory
Based on the equivalence between a gauge theory for the translation group and
general relativity, a teleparallel version of the non-abelian Kaluza-Klein
theory is constructed. In this theory, only the fiber-space turns out to be
higher-dimensional, spacetime being kept always four-dimensional. The resulting
model is a gauge theory that unifies, in the Kaluza-Klein sense, gravitational
and gauge fields. In contrast to the ordinary Kaluza-Klein models, this theory
defines a natural length-scale for the compact sub-manifold of the fiber space,
which is shown to be of the order of the Planck length.Comment: Revtex4, 7 pages, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
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