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In the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity the energy density of asymptotically flat gravitational fields can be naturaly defined as a scalar density restricted to a three-dimensional spacelike hypersurface $\Sigma$. Integration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. W. Maluf , E. F. Martins , A. Kneip

This paper defines an angular velocity for time-dependent functions on the sphere, and applies it to gravitational waveforms from compact binaries. Because it is geometrically meaningful and has a clear physical motivation, the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-27 Michael Boyle

In the framework of the quasigroup approach to conservation laws in general relativity, we show how the infinite-parametric Newman-Unti group of asymptotic symmetries can be reduced to the Poincare quasigroup. We compute Noether's charges…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Alfonso Zack Robles , Alexander I. Nesterov , Claudia Moreno

In the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, we show that the energy-momentum density for the gravitational field can be described by a true spacetime tensor. It is also invariant under local (gauge) translations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. C. de Andrade , L. C. T. Guillen , J. G. Pereira

We study gravitational waves to first and second order in amplitude in vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes. The Einstein equations are solved to first order and these solutions are superposed to form a time-symmetric ingoing and then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-13 J. Bicak , J. Katz , T. Ledvinka , D. Lynden-Bell

In General Relativity, the issue of defining the gravitational energy contained in a given spatial region is still unresolved, except for particular cases of localized objects where the asymptotic flatness holds for a given spacetime. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-06 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo , Gaetano Lambiase

The general relativistic notion of gravitational and inertial mass is discussed from the general viewpoint of the tidal forces implicit in the curvature and the Einstein field equations within ponderable matter. A simple yet rigorously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Widom

I introduce a covariant four-vector $\mathcal{G}^a[v]$, which can be interpreted as the momentum density attributed to the spacetime geometry by an observer with velocity $v^a$, and describe its properties: (a) Demanding that the total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 T. Padmanabhan

We show that, when boosted to the infinite momentum frame, the quark and gluon orbital angular momentum operators defined in the nucleon spin sum rule of X. S. Chen et al. are the same as those derived from generalized transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Yong Zhao , Keh-Fei Liu , Yibo Yang

Procedures for projecting angular momentum in a model describing a hot nucleus that takes into account large-amplitude quadrupole fluctuations are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the effect angular-momentum projection has on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 W. E. Ormand , P. F. Bortignon , R. A. Broglia

In this paper, we elaborate the problem of energy-momentum in general relativity by energy-momentum prescriptions theory. Our aim is to calculate energy and momentum densities for the general form of gravitational waves. In this connection,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-02 Amir M. Abbassi , Saeed Mirshekari

The article deals with the role of gravitational radiation energy in the large-scale dynamics of the universe. Motivated by the observed accelerated expansion, we investigate whether gravitational energy, treated as a well-defined physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 S. C. Ulhoa , F. L. Carneiro , J. W. Maluf

Using Euler's equations of motion and the Hamiltonian formulation, we obtain the equations of motion of systems with internal angular momentum that are moving with respect to a given reference frame, when subjected to a torque which is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Dorado

In relativistic quantum mechanics, elementary particles are described by irreducible unitary representations of the Poincare group. The same applies to the center-of-mass kinematics of a multi-particle system that is not subject to external…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-22 Walter Smilga

The so-called $\Gamma\Gamma$-form of the gravitational Lagrangian, long known to provide its most compact expression as well as the most efficient generation of the graviton vertices, is taken as the starting point for discussing General…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 E. T. Tomboulis

The paper aims to adopt the complex octonion to formulate the angular momentum, torque, and force etc in the electromagnetic and gravitational fields. Applying the octonionic representation enables one single definition of angular momentum…

General Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Zi-Hua Weng

We considered the problem of the proportionality of inertial and gravitational masses in classical mechanics. We found that the kinetic energy of a material mass point m in a circular motion with a constant angular velocity around another…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrew E. Chubykalo , Stoyan J. Vlaev

It is a long-standing problem in general relativity that the notion of angular momentum of an isolated system has supertranslation ambiguity. In this paper, we argue that the ambiguity is essentially because of the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Pujian Mao , Jun-Bao Wu , Xiaoning Wu

In geometric algebra, the rotation of a vector is described using rotors. Rotors are phasors where the imaginary number has been replaced by a oriented plane element of unit area called a unit bivector. The algebra in three dimensional…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 S. D. Brechet

It has been tested precisely that the inertial and gravitational masses are equal. Here we reveal that the inertial and gravitational momenta may differ. More generally, the inertial and gravitational energy-momentum tensors may not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-21 Xiang-Song Chen