Energy-Momentum Density of Non-Diagonal Bianchi Type Space-Time in General Relativity and Teleparallel Gravity ()
1. Introduction
Since the outset of the general theory of relativity, the notion of energy-momentum localization has been one of the thorniest problems, which remains unsolved. There have been many attempts to find a generally accepted definition of the energy-momentum distributions for the gravitational field. Furthermore, there is no general agreed definition of energy in GR till now. Many tools have been found to manage the energy-momentum localization problem, such as the super-energy tensors [1] [2], and quasi-local definitions which are introduced by Penrose [3], and the most powerful tool of all the previously mentioned ones is the famous energy-momentum complexes which we are going to give a brief intro about it now. Einstein [4] himself believed that the energy can be localized in GR and he introduced to the world the first ever prescription to the energy-momentum. Following Einstein attempt, several physicists proposed different energy-momentum complexes definitions, such as Tolman [5], Landau and Lifshitz [6], Papapetrou [7], Bergmann and Thomson [8], Weinberg [9] and Møller [10]. For a given space-time, these complexes give the same energy and momentum density see ( [11] [12] [13] [14] ). However, some obtained results showed that these complexes do not provide same results for example, see ( [15] - [24] ).
The main issue that makes energy-momentum complexes have some difficulties, was because using different energy-momentum prescriptions could lead to different energy distributions for same space-time, and all calculations should be done only in Cartesian coordinate expect for Møller. Besides that, the biggest lack was there is no precise definition of a pseudo tensor in the general relativity.
Some interesting results have been found recently by using different energy-momentum complexes in the general theory of relativity (see for example, [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] ).
The problem of energy-momentum localization has reformulated to an alternative theory called Teleparallel Gravity, which concentrates on the gauge theories for the translation group based on Weitzenböck geometry. In the theory of the teleparallel gravity, gravitation is ascribed to torsion. This theory was attempted to solve the problems that are caused by the theory of general relativity. The first who noticed that the tetrad description of the gravitational field allows a more satisfactory treatment of the gravitational energy-momentum than it does in GR was Møller [30]. Within this theory, several researchers have calculated the energy-momentum distribution. For instance, Vargas [31], by using Einstein and Landau-Lifshitz energy-momentum complexes of the teleparallel version, found that total energy of the Friedmann-Robertson Walker space-time vanishes everywhere, which is agreed with the previous work of Cooperstock [32] and Rosen [33] in the concept of GR. Recently Alofi and Gad [34] obtained the TG versions of Lewis-Papapetrou Spacetime, and Aktacs [35] investigated Energy momentum distributions of Ruban universe in GR and TG. Gad and Alharbi [36] obtained the energy-momentum density for the gravitational field of the Van Stockum space-time in GR and TG.
Spatially, homogeneous cosmological models play a major role in understanding the structure and properties of space, and have been studied by many scientists. Rosen [33] and Cooperstock [32] used the Einstein complex to calculate the energy and momentum distributions of a closed homogeneous isotropic universe that is described by Friedmann Robertson Walker (FRW) space-time. They showed that the total energy of the Universe is equal to zero everywhere. Johri et al. [37] and Cooperstock and Israelit [38] calculated the total energy of of FRW Universe and they found it is also equal to zero at all times. Banerjee and Sen [39] studied the Bianchi type I and II space-times by using the Einstein energy-momentum complex and they found that the total energy density is zero everywhere. Xulu [40] extended the investigations of Banerjee and Sen with three more energy-momentum complexes using Landau and Lifshitz, Papapetrou, and Weinberg and he found the same results. Radinschi [13] completed the investigation of Banerjee and Sen and Xulu for Bianchi type I by using the energy-momentum complex of Tolman and her result agrees with the results of Banerjee and Sen and Xulu that the total energy density vanishes everywhere. Vargas and So [41] by working in the context of teleparallel gravity they calculated the quasilocal energy-momentum of the Bianchi type I and II universes and they found that energy of both the matter and the gravitational fields vanishes for all regions this result is consistent with of Banerjee and Sen, Xulu, and Radinschi result that calculated in the framework of general relativity. Vargas [31] calculated the total energy of the FRW universe in teleparallel version of both Einstein and Landau-Lifshitz energy-momentum complexes and he found that the total energy vanishes whatever. Aydogdu and Salti [42] calculated the energy-momentum density for Bianchi type-II space time with the Bergmann-Thomson energy momentum definitions in both general relativity and teleparallel gravity and they found that these two gravitational theories give the same result which is that total energy is equal to zero. Tripathy et al. [43] they obtained energy and momentum distributions for the spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi type VIh metric, they used Einstein, Landau-Lifshitz, Papapetrou, and Bergmann-Thompson complexes in the framework of general relativity. They found that the results only agree for a specific value of the metric parameter h, where the energy and momentum vanish for the Bianchi VI−1 universe, except for the case of Landau-Lifshitz where the energy density components vanish, the momentum density components do not vanish. Özkurt and Aygün [44] investigated the energy and momentum density homogeneous Bianchi type VIh metric with Einstein, Bergmann-Thomson, Landau-Lifshitz, Papapetrou, Tolman and Møller prescriptions in general relativity and teleparallel gravity and their results agree with Tripathyet and Tryon.
Following by Mishra et al. [45] obtained the energy and momentum for diagonal Bianchi types they used Einstein, Landau-Lifshitz, Papapetrou, Bergmann-Thompson, and Møller energy-momentum complexes in GR and they found for BI Universe the energy and momentum vanish identically for all prescriptions. Moreover for BIII, BV, BVIh Universes they found that with specific choices of the metric parameter h the energy of the Universes becomes zero, except for The Møller the energy density is found to be zero for all the Universes they have been considered. Recently Yang [27] investigated the energy of Bianchi type-II cosmological model by using two prescriptions the energy-momentum complexes of Einstein and Møller, and obtained that total energy is zero in both prescriptions.
In the present work we illustrate the problem of energy and momentum density of non-diagonal Bianchi type space-time within the framework of two different theories of gravity, general relativity and teleparallel gravity. The paper has been organized as follows: In the next section we will briefly provide a brief overview of the non-diagonal Bianchi type space-time. In Section 3, we calculate the energy-momentum density for the above space-time in GR using double index complexes of Einstein, Møller, Landau-Lifshitz and Bergmann-Thomson. In section 4 we give a brief summary of the basic concepts of teleparallel gravity beside the calculation of the energy and momentum density components in the context of TG. In Section 5, we applied our obtained results to find the energy and momentum density of the non-diagonal Bianchi type BII BVIII and BIX Universe in both theories by using the same method. Finally, in section 6 we provide a summary and discussion of the obtained results.
Through this paper we will use
and
units and the Greek alphabet
to denote tensor indices, that is indices related to space-time. The Latin alphabet
will be used to denote local Lorentz (or tangent space) indices whose associated metric tensor is
.
2. Non-Diagonal Bianchi Type Space-Time
The homogeneous and anisotropic Cosmological models have an important role in describing the universe in the early stages of its development [46]. The Bianchi cosmologies have a significant role in theoretical cosmology, these models was studied by several authors, see [40] [42] [43] [44] [45] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51]. There are nine Bianchi type divided into two special classes: class A (Types I, II, VI0, VII0, VIII, IX), and class B (type III, IV, V, VIh, VIIh).
Now we consider the line element in terms of quasi-Cartesian coordinates:
(2.1)
where
are functions of time and
and
are some functions of
. We use the following (see [51] [52] ),
(2.2)
where prime denotes a partial derivative with respect to
,
According to the value of
we classified the Bianchi type-II (BII), Bianchi type-VIII (BVIII) and Bianchi type-IX (BIX) models from the metric (2.1), respectively as follows:
(2.3)
3. Energy-Momentum Complexes in General Relativity
In the theory of General Relativity, the energy-momentum prescriptions of Einstein (E), Møller (M), Bergmann-Thomson (BT) and Landau-Lifshitz (LL) can be written as follows:
(3.1)
with
(3.2)
where
.
(3.3)
These complexes are called double index complexes [53].
The superpotential
or
is made up from the contravariant components of the metric tensor and their derivative. By definition, each of them is anti-symmetric in the pair of indices k and
, hence the complexes satisfy the local conservation law
,
, and
,
are, respectively, the energy and momentum density components. The complexes deriving from superpotential (3.3), are symmetrical in the two indices i and k; this permits the establishment of a conservation law of angular momentum as well.
The energy and momentum distributions in the above various complexes are defined by
(3.4)
(3.5)
where the first integration in both two above equations being carried out on the surface
and the second on a close two-surface S belonging to the same hypersurface and expanding to infinity.
Now, if we assume the general metric
(3.6)
where the metric components
are functions of time t alone and free of space variables. Consequently, the superpotential
and
are also functions of the time variable alone. From (3.1) and the antisymmetric of superpotential, we have
(3.7)
Therefore,
Theorem 1. For all homogeneous space-times anzatz with the metric (3.6) the total gravitational energy for any finite volume is identically zero.
3.1. Einstein Prescription
The non-vanishing superpotential components,
, of the Einstein complex for the line element (2.1), using Equation (3.2), are
(3.8)
where dot denotes a partial derivative with respect to t.
Inserting the above components into (3.1), we find the energy and momentum density components in the sense of Einstein definition, respectively, as follows
(3.9)
3.2. Møller Prescription
The non-vanishing superpotential components,
, of the Møller definition for the line element (2.1), using Equation (3.2), are
(3.10)
Inserting the above components into (1), we find the energy and momentum density components, respectively, as follows
(3.11)
3.3. Landau-Lifshitz Prescription
The non-vanishing superpotential components,
, of the Landau-Lifshitz prescription for the line element (2.1), using Equation (3.3), are
(3.12)
Using the above components in (3.1), we obtain the Landau-Lifshitz’s energy and momentum density components, respectively, as follows
(3.13)
3.4. Bergmann-Thomson Prescription
The non-vanishing superpotential components,
, of the Bergmann-Thomson complex for the line element (2.1), using Equation (3.3), are
(3.14)
Inserting the above components into (3.1), we get the energy and momentum density components using Bergmann-Thomson’s prescription, respectively, as follows
(3.15)
4. Teleparallel Gravity
The name of teleparallel gravity is usually used to denote the general three-parameter theory [54]. Teleparallel gravity theory has the same field equations as the theory of general relativity. It is an alternative formulation of gravity. In other words, it is equivalent to the theory of general relativity [55]. It can actually be understand as a gauge theory for the translation group based on Weitzenböck geometry [56].
4.1. Fundamental Concepts
In this section we are going to review the basic concepts of the theory of teleparallel gravity (see for example [54] [57] [58] [59] ).
In the theory of teleparallel gravity the tetrad,
, is play the main role, while the metric tensor play the main role in the theory of general relativity. There are many ways to create tetrad,
, one of these ways, it can be expressed by the dual basis of the differential one-form by choosing a coframe of the coordinate system [60]. Another way is by solving the following relation,
(4.1)
where
.
whose inverse is denoted by,
, should satisfy the relationships
(4.2)
and
(4.3)
where
is the covarint metric.
Using the Minkowski metric,
, the tangent space indices are raised and lowered while by using the space-time metric,
, the space-time indices are raised and lowered. The parallel transport of
between two neighboring points is coded into the covariant derivative
(4.4)
where
(4.5)
is a Weitzenböck connection [56]. This connection provides a torsion that is defined as follows
(4.6)
It is not symmetric in
and
.
1
.
The connection
and the Levi-Civita connection
1 are connected by the following relation
(4.7)
where
(4.8)
is called the contortion tensor.
The Weitzenböck connection
can be defined by the following three parts [54]
(4.9)
where
(4.10)
is the tensor part that represents the torsion tensor,
(4.11)
is the vector part that gives the torsion vector, and
(4.12)
is the axial-vector part that defines the torsion axial-vector, which represents the axial symmetry deviation from spherical symmetry [61].
and
are completely antisymmetric tensors with respect to the coordinates basis and defined by [62]
(4.13)
(4.14)
where
and
are the antisymmetric tensor densities of weight −1 and +1, respectively, with normalization
and
.
In the presence of matter, the action of teleparallel gravity is given by
(4.15)
where
,
is the Lagrangian of a source field and
(4.16)
is a tensor written in terms of the torsion of the Weitzenböck connection. In the above form,
and
are the three dimensionless coupling constants of Teleparallel Gravity.
These constants has a defined value that has been determined by Hayashi [54]
(4.17)
The energy-momentum complexes of Einstein, Bergmann-Thomson and Landau-Lifshitz in Teleparallel Gravity, respectively, are given by [30]
(4.18)
where
is the Freud’s super-potential and defined as follows
(4.19)
The energy and momentum distributions in the above complexes, respectively, are
(4.20)
where
is the energy,
are the momentum components and the integration hypersurface
is described by
constant.
4.2. Energy-Momentum Density in Teleparallel Gravity
In order to calculate the Einstein, Bergmann-Thomson and Landau-Lifshitz’s energy and momentum complexes of the metric in teleparallel gravity, we consider the tetrad components of the line element (2.1). The tetrad components represented by
as follows
(4.21)
and its inverse
is
(4.22)
We can inspect that (4.21) and (4.22) satisfy the tetrad conditions (4.2), and hence the condition
so
Using the above components of
and
in (4.5) we construct the Weitzenböck connection, whose non-vanishing components are
(4.23)
Using (4.6) and the above components, we find the non-vanishing torsion components as following
(4.24)
Using this torsion component into Equation (4.16), we found the non-vanishing components of the tensor
as follows
(4.25)
Using these components (4.25) in the relation (4.19) then insert it in equations (4.18), we obtain the energy and momentum densities in the sense of Einstein, Landau-Lifshitz, and Bergmann-Thomson, respectively, as follows.
The energy-momentum density components in the Einstein prescription will become
(4.26)
The energy-momentum density components in the Landau-Lifshitz prescription will become
(4.27)
The energy-momentum density components in the Bergmann-Thomson prescription will become
(4.28)
5. Special Cases
According to the value of
using (2.3), we define
, the function
can be defined from the solution of the Einstein field equations as follows [51] [52].
(5.1)
We consider from the general case of the Bianchi type space-time the following Special Cases.
Case I
The metric (2.1) reduces to BII space time if
(5.2)
Solving the above equation, we get
where
being some arbitrary constants. Without loss of generality, when
and by solving the non-homogeneous linear differential Equation (5.1) we find
,
where
being some arbitrary constants.
Then the corresponding metric is expressed by the line element
(5.3)
Assuming that
then the line element becomes
(5.4)
Case II
When
, we get BVIII space-time
(5.5)
This is a homogeneous equation has the general solution as
where
being some arbitrary constants. Without loss of generality, when
and by solving equation (5.1), we find
where
being some arbitrary constants.
Then the corresponding metric takes the form,
(5.6)
Assuming that
then the line element become as follows,
(5.7)
Case III
Finally, the BIX space-time can be found when
(5.8)
Solving the above equation, we have the general solution as follows
with
being some arbitrary constants. Without loss of generality, when
, the solution of (5.1) becomes
where
being some arbitrary constants.
Therefore, the corresponding metric takes the form,
(5.9)
Assuming that
then the line element is expressed by,
(5.10)
Now we are going to obtain the energy-momentum density in GR by using Einstein’s, Møller, Landau-Lifshitz and Bergman-Thompson prescriptions, and then in TG by using Einstein’s, Landau-Lifshitz and Bergman-Thompson energy-momentum complexes.
Einstein prescription
The energy-momentum density components in the sense of Einstein, respectively, as follows
For the BII space-time represented by the line element (5.4),
(5.11)
(5.12)
and for the BVIII space-time showed by the line element (5.7),
(5.13)
(5.14)
and for the BIX space-time expressed by the line element (5.10),
(5.15)
(5.16)
Møller prescription
The energy-momentum density components using the Møller prescription are as follows,
For the BII space-time represented by the line element (5.4),
(5.17)
and for the BVIII space-time defined by the line element (5.7),
(5.18)
and for the BIX space-time showed by the line element (5.10),
(5.19)
Landau-Lifshitz prescription
We obtain the Landau-Lifshitz’s energy-momentum density components, respectively, as follows
For the BII space-time expressed by the line element (5.4),
(5.20)
(5.21)
and for the BVIII space-time represented by the line element (5.7),
(5.22)
(5.23)
and for the BIX space-time showed by the line element (5.10),
(5.24)
(5.25)
Bergmann-Thomson prescription
We obtain the components of energy and momentum densities using the Bergmann-Thomson definition, respectively, as follows
For the BII space-time represented by the line element (5.4),
(5.26)
(5.27)
For the BVIII space-time defined by the line element (5.7),
(5.28)
(5.29)
For the BIX space-time represented by the line element (5.10),
(5.30)
(5.31)
6. Discussion and Summary
In the present work, we have obtained the energy and momentum density components for the non diagonal Bianchi types for some well known energy-momentum complexes such as Einstein, Landau-Lifshitz, Bergmann-Thompson and Møller prescriptions using double index complexes in GR and as well as in TG. The general results of the non diagonal Bianchi type universes have been used to calculate the energy and momentum of BII, BVIII and BIX Universes.
Our result indicates the following:
1) We obtained that the Einstein prescription agrees with Bergmann-Thompson prescription. In these two prescriptions, we get the same energy-momentum density in GR as well as in TG,
2) The only non vanishing momentum density components are the third momentum component. Otherwise, it vanishes identically for all prescriptions in both theories
3) Many researchers investigated the Bianchi type-II cosmological model in both theories and they indicated that the energy vanishes for all regions, see [27] [41] [50] [63] [64]. Our result agrees with them in the case of Einstein, Bergmann-Thompson, and Møller.
4) It is clear that the energy density in the Møller prescription is zero for all the non-diagonal Bianchi types in GR. Our result agrees with [45] where they obtained the energy-momentum density of some diagonal anisotropic Bianchi type Universes using different energy-momentum complexes in the framework of General Relativity. They found that unlike the other prescriptions, in the case of Møller, the energy is zero for all types of Bianchi Universes they have considered. Also, our result agrees with [49]. They found that Møller is the only prescription where the energy density is equal to zero for Bianchi type-IV Universe. Lassner [65] indicates that Møller energy-momentum complex is a powerful concept of energy and momentum in general relativity. Our result agrees with him.
5) While, in other prescriptions the energy density does not vanish for all types expect for Bianchi type-II space-time as we already indicated.
6) If the scale factors of the metric are function in t only, then the total energy-momentum density is identically zero for all Bianchi types space-times. This sustains our theorem (1).
7) In all prescriptions, the expressions for the energy and momentum density are well-defined.