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On the stress-energy tensor of a null shell in Einstein-Cartan gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

The stress-energy tensor of a matter shell whose history coincides with a null hypersurface in the Einstein-Cartan gravity is revisited. It is demonstrated that with a proper choice for the torsion discontinuity taken to be orthogonal to the null hypersurface and consistent with the antisymmetric property of torsion tensor, the modified expression for the asymmetric stress-energy tensor is automatically tangent to the hypersurface. The main differences with respect to a previous work are addressed

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@article{arxiv.1912.12650,
  title  = {On the stress-energy tensor of a null shell in Einstein-Cartan gravity},
  author = {S. Khakshournia and R. Mansouri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.12650},
  year   = {2020}
}

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7 pages