Localization of energy for a Kerr black hole
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 , 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