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Variational Symmetries And Conservation Laws In Linearized Gravity, Balraj Menon

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The methods of symmetry group analysis are applied to the action functional of linearized gravity to derive necessary conditions for the existence of variational symmetries. Two classes of variational symmetries of linearized gravity are discussed, and the local conservation laws associated with these variational symmetries are presented by applying Noether's theorem