Lorentz gauge and Coulomb gauge for tetrad field of gravity

Abstract

In general relativity, an inertial frame can only be established in a small region of spacetime, and locally inertial frames are mathematically represented by a tetrad field in gravity. The tetrad field is not unique due to the freedom to perform Lorentz transformations in locally inertial frames, and there exists freedom to choose the locally inertial frame at each spacetime point. The local Lorentz transformations are known as non-Abelian gauge transformations for the tetrad field, and to fix the gauge freedom, corresponding to the Lorentz gauge ${\partial }^{\mu }{\mathcal{A}}_{\mu }=0$ and Coulomb gauge ${\partial }^i{\mathcal{A}}_i=0$ in electrodynamics, the Lorentz gauge and Coulomb gauge for the tetrad field are proposed in the present work. Moreover, properties of the Lorentz gauge and Coulomb gauge for tetrad field are discussed, which show the similarities to those in electromagnetic field.

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