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Frame dragging and super-energy

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that the vorticity appearing in stationary vacuum spacetimes is always related to the existence of a flow of super-energy on the plane orthogonal to the vorticity vector. This result, toghether with the previously established link between vorticity and super--energy in radiative (Bondi-Sachs) spacetimes strength further the case for this latter quantity as the cause of frame dragging.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0867,
  title  = {Frame dragging and super-energy},
  author = {L. Herrera and J. Carot and A. Di Prisco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0867},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages Latex. To appear in Phys.Rev. D. Typos corrected

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