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| ====== Bianchi Identities ====== | ====== Bianchi Identities ====== | ||
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| - | The boundary of a boundary is zero | ||
| - | <cite>John Wheeler</cite> | ||
| - | </blockquote> | ||
| - | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
| - | The Bianchi identities have a close connection the [[http://wiki.physicsinsider.com/doku.php?id=noethers_theorems#tab__researcher|Noether's second theorem]]. | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
| - | <tabbox Layman?> | + | Intuitively, Bianchi identities state that "//the boundary of a boundary is zero//". |
| - | <note tip> | + | |
| - | Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. | + | For example, let's consider a disk: O |
| - | </note> | + | |
| + | The disk has a boundary, which is a circle. A circle has no boundary. | ||
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| + | Next, let's consider a line segment: | | ||
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| + | It is one-dimensional like the circle but has a boundary: the two endpoints. But then again, this boundary (=the two endpoints) don't have a boundary. | ||
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| - | <tabbox Student> | + | <tabbox Concrete> |
| + | For an extremely illuminating discussion see | ||
| - | <note tip> | + | * [[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01882731|The Boundary of a Boundary Principle - a unified approach]] by Arkady Kheyfets. |
| - | In this section things should be explained by analogy and with pictures and, if necessary, some formulas. | + | |
| - | </note> | + | |
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| - | <tabbox Researcher> | + | |
| - | <note tip> | + | In addition, good discussion can be found in |
| - | The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//. | + | |
| - | </note> | + | |
| - | --> Common Question 1# | + | * See chapter 15 in "Gravitation" by Misner Thorne and Wheeler and also |
| + | * page 253 in Gauge fields, knots, and gravity by J. Baez | ||
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| - | --> Common Question 2# | + | Bianchi identities express the fact that the boundary of a boundary is always zero. Mathematically this follows by applying Stoke's theorem twice. This is discussed explicitly in the book No-Nonsense Electrodynamics by Schwichtenberg |
| - | <-- | + | <tabbox Abstract> |
| - | + | In general relativity, the Bianchi identity | |
| - | <tabbox Examples> | + | $$ \nabla R = \nabla \nabla \theta =0 $$ |
| + | roughly says "that the sum over a closed two-dimensional surface of rotations induced by Riemannian curvature is equal to zero." ([[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01882731|Source]]) | ||
| + | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | ||
| + | <blockquote> | ||
| + | When we get to gauge theories we will see that Maxwell's equations are a special case of the Yang-Mills equations, which describe not only electromagnetism but also the strong and weak nuclear forces. A generalization of the identity $d^2=0$, the Bianchi identity, implies conservation of "charge" in all these theories - although these theories have different kinds of "charge". Similarly, we will see when we get to general relativity that due to the Bianchi identity, Einstein's equations for gravity automatically imply local conservation of energy and momentum! | ||
| - | --> Example1# | + | <cite> page 96 in Gauge fields, knots, and gravity by John Baez</cite> |
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| - | + | <blockquote> | |
| - | <-- | + | The boundary of a boundary is zero |
| + | <cite>John Wheeler</cite> | ||
| + | </blockquote> | ||
| - | --> Example2:# | + | The Bianchi identities have a close connection the [[theorems:noethers_theorems|Noether's second theorem]]. |
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| - | <-- | + | |
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| - | <tabbox History> | + | |
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