Osvaldo M Moreschi 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 5409 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/23/008
Osvaldo M Moreschi
Show affiliationsThere are several definitions in the literature of the notion of total angular momentum in general relativity. However, none of them can be said to capture the physical notion of intrinsic angular momentum of the sources in the presence of gravitational radiation. We present a definition of angular momentum for radiative spacetimes which does not suffer from any ambiguity of supertranslations. We have succeeded in providing an appropriate notion of intrinsic angular momentum and, at the same time, a definition of centre of mass frame at future null infinity. This notion is required in calculations involving radiation of angular momentum, as, for example, is expected in binary coalescence of black holes.
04.20.Cv Fundamental problems and general formalism
04.70.-s Physics of black holes
04.20.Gz Spacetime topology, causal structure, spinor structure
Issue 23 (7 December 2004)
Received 13 April 2004, in final form 23 September 2004
Published 9 November 2004
Osvaldo M Moreschi 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 5409
Joseph Hoshen 1997 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 8459
C B Yang 2004 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 L523
D T Burns et al 2007 Phys. Med. Biol. 52 7125
U Bellotti and M Bornatici 1997 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 4273
M Sahimi 1987 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 20 L1293
C G Böhmer and T Harko 2007 Class. Quantum Grav. 24 3191
J J Ludlam et al 2005 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 17 L321
R Wehlitz et al 1999 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 32 L635
Qiu Cong-Xin and Xu Ren-Xin 2006 Chinese Phys. Lett. 23 3205