Gravitational stress-energy tensor is
a symmetric tensor of second valence (rank), which describes the energy density and energy flux density
of gravitational field in Lorentz-invariant theory of
gravitation. This tensor in the covariant theory of gravitation is included in equation for determining metric along with acceleration stress-energy tensor, pressure stress-energy tensor, dissipation stress-energy tensor and stress-energy tensor of
electromagnetic field. The covariant derivative of gravitational stress-energy tensor
determines density of gravitational force acting on matter.
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In LITG the gravitational stress-energy
tensor is determined through gravitational
tensor and metric tensor
in
Lorentzian metrics: [1]
where is gravitational constant, and all gravitational quantities are
defined in electromagnetic wave representation, which uses the speed of light
.
After replacing by the strong gravitational constant
the gravitational stress-energy tensor can be
used to describe strong gravitation at
the level of atoms and elementary particles in gravitational model of strong interaction.
Since gravitational tensor in
LITG consists of components of vectors of gravitational
field strength and gravitational
torsion field
, and the tensor
in
4-coordinates (ct, x,y,z)
consists of the numbers 0, 1, -1 and does not depend on coordinates and time,
so the components of gravitational stress-energy tensor can be written
explicitly in terms of components of the mentioned vectors:
The time-like components of the
tensor denote:
1) The volumetric energy density
of gravitational field, negative in value
2) The vector of energy flux
density of gravitational field or the Heaviside
vector
The components of the vector are part of the corresponding tensor
components
, and due to the symmetry of the
tensor indices
.
According to the Heaviside
theorem, the relation holds:
where is
the 3-vector of mass current density.
3) The space-like components of
the tensor form a submatrix 3 x 3, which is the 3-dimensional gravitational
stress tensor, taken with a minus sign. Gravitational stress tensor can be
written as [1]
where
is the Kronecker delta,
if
and
if
Calculation of three-dimensional
divergence of gravitational stress tensor gives:
where denote the components of three-dimensional
density of gravitational force,
– components of Heaviside vector.
The gravitational stress-energy
tensor has such form that it allows us to find the 4-vector of gravitational
force density by
differentiation in four-dimensional space:
As we can see from formula (1), the
4-vector of gravitational force density can be calculated in a different way,
through the gravitational tensor with mixed indices and the 4-vector of mass current
density
. This is due to the fact that in LITG the
gravitational field equations have the form:
Expressing
from the latter equation in
terms of
and substituting in (1) and also using definition of gravitational
stress-energy tensor, we can prove the validity of equation (1). The components
of 4-vector of gravitational force density are as follows:
where
is 3-vector of gravitational force
density,
is
density of moving matter,
is
3-vector of mass current density,
is
3-vector of particle velocity.
The
integral of (1) over the three-dimensional volume of a small particle or a
matter unit, calculated in the reference frame co-moving with the particle,
gives the gravitational four-force:
In the
integration it was taken into account that ,
where
is
the mass density in the co-moving reference frame,
is
the invariant mass,
is
the 4-velocity of the particle,
is
the 4-momentum of the particle,
is
the relativistic momentum,
is
the relativistic energy of the particle. It is also assumed that the mass
densities
and
include contributions from the mass-energy of the proper gravitational field
and the electromagnetic field of the particle. The obtained 4-force is acting
on the particle in the presence of the
gravitational field with the tensor
, and in
some cases we can neglect the proper gravitational field of the particle and
consider its motion only in the external field.
The
gravitational stress-energy tensor contains time-like components ,
integrating which over the moving volume we can calculate integral
vector of energy flux of gravitational field:
where
is
the energy of gravitational field,
is a
three-dimensional vector having the dimension of momentum.
If in
this volume there is matter as a source of proper gravitational
(electromagnetic) field, we should consider total
integral vector of energy flux , which
includes contributions from all the fields in the given volume, including acceleration field and pressure field. In particular, for a
uniform spherical body with the radius
the
integral vector in view of proper gravitational field of the body has the
form: [2]
where is total gravitational energy of the body in
the reference frame in which the body is at rest,
is invariant inertial mass, which
includes contributions of the mass-energy from all the fields,
is
gravitational mass, which is equal to total mass
of all particles in the system, found by
integrating over volume of the body the product of invariant mass density and
Lorentz factor of the moving particles.
It is
assumed that the mass equal
to the mass
of
matter particles without their gravitational binding energy, and when the
particles combine in the whole body the bulk of their gravitational energy is
compensated by internal energy of the particles motion and the energy of the
body pressure. Since the energy
is
negative, then the condition holds
, that is
as long as the scattered matter is undergoing gravitational contraction into
the body of finite size, the gravitational mass is increasing. We can find also the invariant energy
of the physical system:
A more accurate analysis of masses of the system shows that the following relationship
holds:[3]
where the gauge mass is related to cosmological constant and
represents mass-energy of the matter’s particles in the four-potentials of the
system’s fields;
is the
inertial mass; the auxiliary mass
is equal to the product of the particles’ invariant mass
density by the volume of the body.
This can
be compared with the approach of the general relativity, in which such total
mass of baryons is
used that when we add to it negative mass
from the gravitational field energy, we obtain the relativistic mass:
, and there is a relation:
.
CTG is a generalization of LITG to
any reference frames and phenomena that occur in the presence of fields and
accelerations of acting forces. In CTG all deviations from LITG relations are
described by the metric tensor which becomes a function of coordinates
and time. In addition, in equations the operator of 4-gradient
is
replaced by the covariant derivative
. After replacing
by
the gravitational stress-energy tensor
becomes in the following form:
Gravitational field is considered at the same time as a component of general field. [4]]
Transforming contravariant
indices in gravitational tensor into covariant indices with the help of
metric tensor, and interchanging some indices, which are summed up, we obtain:
Since gravitational tensor with covariant indices consists of components
of vector of gravitational field strength
, divided by the speed of light
, and components of vector of
gravitational torsion field
, the formula shows that in curved
spacetime the gravitational stress-energy tensor is a sum of products of
components of these vectors with the corresponding coefficients of components
of metric tensor. And it turns out that the energy density of gravitational
field
contains mixed products of the form
, etc. There are no such products in
the flat Minkowski space, which leads to the fact that in spacetime of special
relativity the energy associated with the strength of gravitational field is
not mixed with the energy of torsion field. The same situation takes place in
electromagnetism: in Minkowski space the energy of electric field is calculated
separately from the energy of magnetic field, but in curved spacetime in the
energy density of the electromagnetic field there is additional energy from
mixed components with the products of components of strengths of electric and
magnetic fields.
Due to use of covariant
differentiation in four-dimensional space in CTG the gravitational field
equations are changed as well as the expression for 4-vector of gravitational
force density (1), while the expression for gravitational 4-force remains the same:
[5]
In CTG
the metric tensor is determined by solving the equation similar to
Hilbert-Einstein equation. In covariant indices this equation can be written as
follows: [6]
where is the Ricci tensor,
is
the scalar curvature,
is
the coefficient to be determined,
,
,
and
are the stress-energy tensors of the acceleration field, pressure field,
gravitational and electromagnetic fields, respectively.
In
contrast to the general theory of relativity, in this equation, there is no
cosmological constant , there
is an additional constant
and the metric is dependent on the gravitational stress-energy tensor. The
latter is the consequence of the fact that in CTG gravitation is an independent
physical force as well as the electromagnetic force, and therefore participates
in determining the metric according to the principles of the metric theory of relativity.
Using the
principle of least action allows us to deduce not only the formula for the
gravitational stress-energy tensor, but also gives the equation of motion
written in tensor form: [7]
The
covariant derivative of the acceleration
stress-energy tensor defines up to the sign the density of the 4-force acting
on the field from the matter. At the same time the operator of proper-time-derivative is
applied to the 4-potential of acceleration field in the
Riemannian space: [8]
where is
the acceleration tensor,
is
the proper time of the particle in comoving reference frame.
The total
density of the 4-force of the gravitational and electromagnetic fields and
pressure field is determined by transfer of the stress-energy tensors of the
fields to the right side of the equation of motion (2) and then applying the
covariant derivative:
where is
the electromagnetic
tensor,
is
the pressure field tensor,
is
the 4-vector of the electromagnetic current density,
is
the density of electric charge of the matter unit in the reference frame at
rest.
In the
weak field limit, when the covariant derivative can be replaced by the partial
derivative, for the time-like component in (2), which has the index , the
local conservation law of energy and energy flux in matter
and gravitational and electromagnetic fields can be written as follows: [9] [10]
where is
the vector of the acceleration field energy flux density,
is
the Heaviside vector,
is the Poynting vector,
is
the vector of the pressure field energy flux density, which are determined in
the special
relativity.
According
to this law, the work of the field to accelerate the masses and charges is
compensated by the work of the matter to create the field. As a result, the
change in time of the total energy in a certain volume is possible only due to
the inflow of energy fluxes into this volume.
The
analysis of equation (2) for the space-like components with the index in
a weak field shows that, taking into account the equation of motion of the
matter in the field, all the force densities and the change rates of the
momentums of the matter and fields are cancelled.
However
in general case, when the spacetime is significantly curved by the existing
fields and matter, in (2) we should consider the contributions with the
additional non-zero components of the metric tensor and their derivatives,
which are absent in the special theory of relativity. This follows from the
fact that the covariant derivative is expressed through the partial derivative
and the Christoffel coefficients. Since in CTG the purpose of using the metric
tensor is correction of the motion equations in order to take into account the
dependence on the fields of the time intervals and spatial distances, measured
by the electromagnetic (gravitational) waves, then such correction changes
notation of many physical quantities in the form of 4-vectors and tensors. In
particular, if we consider equation (2) as the local conservation law of
energy and energy flux in matter and gravitational and electromagnetic fields, then
appearing of additional contributions with the components of the metric tensor
leads to specification of the theory for the case of the curved space. And the
physical meaning of the results obtained for the flat spacetime and the weak
field remains unchanged.
As another example we can consider the
integral of the left side of (2) over the entire four-dimensional space. In
flat Minkowski space the covariant divergence of the sum of the tensors becomes
an ordinary 4-divergence, to which we can apply the divergence theorem. By this
theorem the integral of the 4-divergence of some tensor over the 4-space can be
replaced by the integral of the tensor over the hypersurface surrounding the
4-volume, over which the integration is done. If we choose a projection of this
hypersurface on the hyperplane of the constant time in the form of a
three-dimensional volume the integral of the left side of (2) is transformed
into the integral of the sum of time components of the tensors in (2) over the
volume, which must equal to conserved integral vector of the physical system
under consideration:
For these tensor components the integral vector vanishes. [9]
Vanishing of the 4-vector allows us to explain the 4/3 problem, according to which the
mass-energy of gravitational or electromagnetic field in the flux of field of
moving system in 4/3 more than in the field energy of fixed system. On the other hand, according to, [10] the
generalized Poynting theorem and the integral vector should be considered
differently inside the matter and beyond its limits. As a result, the
occurrence of the 4/3 problem is associated with the fact that the time components
of the stress-energy tensors do not form four-vectors, and therefore they
cannot define the same mass in the fields’ energy and flux energy in
principle. It follows that
the integral vector
cannot be considered as a four-momentum of the
system, determining only the distribution of energy and energy fluxes of the
fields of the system.[11] This is shown in more detail in the papers
describing the generalized 4-momentum [12] and the total 4-momentum of a
physical system. [13]
In GTR, there is a problem of
determining the gravitational stress-energy tensor. The reason is that due to
the applied principle of geometrization of physics, all manifestations of
gravitation are completely replaced by the geometric effect – the spacetime
curvature. Thus, the gravitational field is reduced to the metric field, set by
the metric tensor and its derivatives with respect to coordinates and time.
Since in each reference frame there is its own metric, so gravitation is not
independent physical interaction but is assumed as the consequence of the
metric of the reference frame. This leads to the fact that instead of the
gravitational stress-energy tensor in GTR there is a pseudotensor which depends
on the metric. The feature of this pseudotensor is that locally it can be made
equal to zero at any point by choosing the corresponding reference frame. As a
result, GTR have to refuse from the possibility to accurately determine the
localization of gravitational energy and the momentum of gravitational field in
a physical system, which significantly impedes understanding the physics of
gravitation on a fundamental level, and describing the phenomena in a classical
form. The purpose of Hilbert-Einstein equations in GTR is to
find the metric:
These equations do not
contain the gravitational stress-energy tensor, which is present in the right
side of the equations for the metric in CTG. The metric in GTR depends only on
the matter and the electromagnetic field in the considered reference frame.
After finding such metric it is used to find the pseudotensor of the
energy-momentum of gravitational field, and this pseudotensor must depend only
on the metric tensor, be symmetrical with respect to the indices, and when
added to the stress-energy tensors of matter and electromagnetic field
it must give zero divergence so that the conservation law of
energy-momentum of the matter and field would be satisfied. This pseudotensor
in a weak field, that is, in the special theory of relativity, must vanish in
order to ensure the principle of equivalence of free fall in the gravitational
field and inertial motion.
The Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor
corresponds to the mentioned criteria. [14] There is also an Einstein pseudotensor, but it is not symmetrical with
respect to the indices. [15] Note that in contrast to GTR, in mathematics under pseudotensor we
understand something different, more precisely a tensor quantity, which changes
its sign when it is transformed into the coordinate reference frame with the
opposite orientation of the basis.
Since in GTR there is no
gravitational stress-energy tensor, the gravitational energy of a body is
determined indirectly. For example, one method is when by the given substance
density and body size the mass of the body is calculated, first in the absence
of the metric’s influence, and then taking into account the metric’s influence
and the corresponding change in the volume differential in the integral of the
mass under influence of the gravitational field. The difference of the
mentioned masses is equated to the mass-energy of gravitational field as to the
manifestation of the metric field. [16] In this case, the components of the metric tensor are used, found in GTR
from the Hilbert-Einstein equation for the metric.