Quasilocal momentum and angular momentum in Kerr spacetime
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 8 (4) , 697-701
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/8/4/014
Abstract
It is shown that the Kerr spacetime possesses a vector space V and an affine space M0 allowing definitions of quasilocal momentum and angular momentum with all the desired properties. The construction of V and M0 makes use of a natural, flat, metric connection with torsion and of a generalized twistor equation. The momentum and angular momentum contained within a finite 2-surface Sigma are expressed as the integrals over Sigma of two closed 2-forms.Keywords
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