TITLE:
Birkhoff’s Theorem and Lie Symmetry Analysis
AUTHORS:
Avijit Mukherjee, Subham B. Roy
KEYWORDS:
Birkhoff’s Theorem, Lie Symmetry Analysis, Noether Point Symmetry
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Vol.7 No.4,
September
8,
2021
ABSTRACT: Three dimensional space is said to be spherically symmetric if it admits SO(3) as the group of isometries. Under this symmetry condition, the Einstein’s Field equations for vacuum, yields the Schwarzschild Metric as the unique solution, which essentially is the statement of the well known Birkhoff’s Theorem. Geometrically speaking this theorem claims that the pseudo-Riemanian space-times provide more isometries than expected from the original metric holonomy/ansatz. In this paper we use the method of Lie Symmetry Analysis to analyze the Einstein’s Vacuum Field Equations so as to obtain the Symmetry Generators of the corresponding Differential Equation. Additionally, applying the Noether Point Symmetry method we have obtained the conserved quantities corresponding to the generators of the Schwarzschild Lagrangian and paving way to reformulate the Birkhoff’s Theorem from a different approach.