Gravitational Energy in Van Stockum Space-Time
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the problem of energy and momentum distributions of Van Stockum space-time within the framework of two different theories of gravity, general relativity and teleparallel gravity. We have shown that for all homogeneous space-times with metric components being functions of time variable, , alone and independent of space variables the total gravitational energy for any finite volume is identically zero. By working with general relativity, we have calculated the energy-momentum density for Van Stockum space-time using double index complexes and in the framework teleparallel gravity, we used the energy-momentum complexes of Einstein, Bergmann-Thomson and Landau-Lifshitz. In our analysis, we sustained that general relativity and teleparallel gravity are equivalent theories of space-time under consideration. For space-time under consideration, we have shown that different complexes of energy-momentum density do not provide the same results neither in general relativity nor in teleparallel gravity.
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@article{arxiv.2104.01895,
title = {Gravitational Energy in Van Stockum Space-Time},
author = {Ragab M Gad and H. A. Alharbi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01895},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
16 pages No figures, Accepted for publication in Indian journal of physics (2021)