Lie point and variational symmetries in minisuperspace Einstein gravity
Lie point and variational symmetries in minisuperspace Einstein gravity
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微型超空间爱因斯坦引力中的谎言点和变分对称性
DOI:
10.1088/1751-8113/47/9/095202
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发表时间:
2013
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影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
P. Terzis
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作者:
T. Christodoulakis;N. Dimakis;P. Terzis
We consider the application of the theory of symmetries of coupled ordinary differential equations to the case of reparametrization invariant Lagrangians quadratic in the velocities; such Lagrangians encompass all minisuperspace models. We find that, in order to acquire the maximum number of possibly existing symmetry generators, one must (a) consider the lapse N(t) among the degrees of freedom and (b) allow the action of the generator on the Lagrangian and/or the equations of motion to produce a multiple of the constraint, rather than strictly zero. The result of this necessary modification of the standard theory (concerning regular systems) is that the Lie point symmetries of the equations of motion are exactly the variational symmetries (containing the time reparametrization symmetry) plus the well known scaling symmetry. These variational symmetries are seen to be the simultaneous conformal Killing fields of both the metric and the potential, thus coinciding with the conditional symmetries defined in phase space. In a parametrization of the lapse for which the potential becomes constant, the generators of the aforementioned symmetries become the Killing fields of the scaled supermetric and its homothetic field, respectively.
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3.5
作者:
T. Harada;M. Kimura
通讯作者:
T. Harada;M. Kimura