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Conservation laws with respect to curved backgrounds associated with black holes and cosmological models
Pavičevič, Mak ; Bičák, Jiří (advisor) ; Schmidt, Josef (referee)
in English We review the problem of defining energy, momentum etc. and their con- servation in curved spacetimes and a possible resolution in the form of a background spacetime. Our focus is set on superpotentials, which, when in- tegrated on a spatial boundary, yield conserved charges, while a conserved vector current is a divergence of a superpotential. Within this thesis, we build a minimal mathematical formalism necessary to prove and interpret Noether's theorem which unites symmetries and conservation laws. We em- phasize the significance of Killing vector fields - generators of isometries. After a short historical overview, the KBL superpotential is presented in de- tail, which makes it possible to define conserved quantities with respect to a curved background spacetime. We then employ its generalization within the Horndeski scalar-tensor theory of gravity. We concentrate on a subclass con- taining non-minimal derivative coupling of the Einstein tensor and a scalar field. We find superpotentials for spherically symmetric, static spacetimes (e.g. exterior of black holes) and time-dependent cosmological spacetimes, in particular with respect to (Anti-)de Sitter backgrounds. 1
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