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Localization of energy for a Kerr black hole

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

In the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity the energy density of asymptoticaly flat gravitational fields can be naturally defined as a scalar density restricted to a three dimensional spacelike hypersurface. The scalar density has simple expression in terms of the trace of the torsion tensor. Here we obtain the formal expression of the localized energy for a Kerr black hole. The energy inside a surface of constant radius can be explicitly calculated in the limit of small aa, the specific angular momentum. Such expression turns out to be exactly the same as the one obtained by means of the method recently proposed by Brown and York.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9504011,
  title  = {Localization of energy for a Kerr black hole},
  author = {Jose W. Maluf and Andreas Kneip},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9504011},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

11 pages, Latex file, no figures. The calculation of the energy inside a surface of constant radius, in the limit of small specific angular momentum $a$, has been improved. We arrive exactly at the known expression without expanding the square root which appears in the expression of the energy