期刊
GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION
卷 48, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-016-2118-2
关键词
Bitensors; Holonomies; Transport equations
资金
- NSF [PHY-1404105, PHY-1068541]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1404105] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
An affine transport equation was used recently to study properties of angular momentum and gravitational-wave memory effects in general relativity. In this paper, we investigate local properties of this transport equation in greater detail. Associated with this transport equation is a map between the tangent spaces at two points on a curve. This map consists of a homogeneous (linear) part given by the parallel transport map along the curve plus an inhomogeneous part, which is related to the development of a curve in a manifold into an affine tangent space. For closed curves, the affine transport equation defines a generalized holonomy that takes the form of an affine map on the tangent space. We explore the local properties of this generalized holonomy by using covariant bitensor methods to compute the generalized holonomy around geodesic polygon loops. We focus on triangles and parallelogramoids with sides formed from geodesic segments. For small loops, we recover the well-known result for the leading-order linear holonomy (similar to Riemann x area), and we derive the leading-order inhomogeneous part of the generalized holonomy (similar to Riemann x area(3/2)). Our bitensor methods let us naturally compute higher-order corrections to these leading results. These corrections reveal the form of the finite-size effects that enter into the holonomy for larger loops; they could also provide quantitative errors on the leading-order results for finite loops.
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