$f(T)$ gravity and energy distribution in Landau-Lifshitz prescription

Abstract

We investigate in this paper the Landau-Lifshitz energy distribution in the framework of $f(T)$ theory view as a modified version of Teleparallel theory. From some important Teleparallel theory results on the localization of energy, our investigations generalize the Landau-Lifshitz prescription from the computation of the energy-momentum complex to the framework of $f (T)$ gravity as it is done in the modified versions of General Relativity. We compute the energy density in the first step for three plane symmetric metrics in vacuum. We find for the second metric that the energy density vanishes independently of $f (T)$ models. These metrics provide results in perfect agreement with those mentioned in literature. In the second step the calculations are performed for the Cosmic String Spacetime metric. It results that the energy distribution depends on the mass $M$ of cosmic string and it is strongly affected by the parameter of the considered $f (T)$ quadratic model.