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General relativity explains gravitational radiation from binary black hole or neutron star mergers, from core-collapse supernovae and even from the inflation period in cosmology. These waves exhibit a unique effect called memory or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Shing-Tung Yau

It is shown that due to Thomas precession, angular momentum is not generally a constant of the motion in a quasiclassical model of the Positronium atom consisting of circular-orbiting point charges with intrinsic spin and associated…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-12-13 David C. Lush

The symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes in general relativity are given by the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group, though there are proposed generalizations of its symmetry algebra. Associated with each symmetry is a charge and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-28 Arwa Elhashash , David A. Nichols

We consider a cylindrical metallic magnet that is set into rotation about a horizontal axis by a falling mass. In such a system the magnetic field will cause a radial current which is non-solenoidal. This leads to charge accumulation and a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-08-08 H. S. Mani , Praveen Pathak , Vijay A. Singh

Traditionally, the angular momentum of light is calculated for "bullet-like" electromagnetic wave packets, although in actual optical experiments "pencil-like" beams of light are more commonly used. The fact that a wave packet is bounded…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-14 Marco Ornigotti , Andrea Aiello

The total angular momentum of a close system is a conserved quantity, which should remain constant in time for any excitation experiment once the pumping signal has extinguished. Such conservation, however, is never satisfied in practice in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Jacopo Simoni , Stefano Sanvito

Nonlinear gravitational wave memory is a surprise of theoretical physics. Whereas it is understood that a gravitational wave induces oscillatory squeezing and stretching motion in a collection of freely-falling test masses, it is unexpected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Robert R. Caldwell

Monotonicity and recursivity are central assumptions in intertemporal consumption problems under ambiguity. We show that monotone recursive preferences admit both a recursive and an ex-ante representation, and that the certainty equivalent…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-23 Massimo Marinacci , Giulio Principi , Lorenzo Stanca

The conventional gravitational memory effect is a relative displacement in the position of two detectors induced by radiative energy flux. We find a new type of gravitational `spin memory' in which beams on clockwise and counterclockwise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger , Alexander Zhiboedov

It is well-known that electric spin angular momentum and electric orbital angular momentum are conserved under paraxial propagation of travelling waves in free-space. Here we study the electric and magnetic angular momentum in…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-04 Hang Li , Valeria Rodriguez-Fajardo , Peifeng Chen , Andrew Forbes

Somewhat surprisingly, in many of the widely used monographs and review articles the term Transverse-Traceless modes of linearized gravitational waves is used to denote two entirely different notions. These treatments generally begin with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Abhay Ashtekar , Béatrice Bonga

We extend the discussion on the difference between angular momentum and pseudo-angular momentum in field theory. We show that the often quoted expressions in [Phys.Rev.B 103, L100409 (2021)] only apply to a non-linear system, and derive the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Qi Dai , Zi-Wei Chen , Bang-Hui Hua , Xiang-Song Chen

In this article, we study the one-dimensional inverse problem of determining the memory kernel by the integral overdetermination condition for the direct problem of finding the velocity potential and the displacement of boundary points. A…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhanna D. Totieva , Kush Kinra , Manil T. Mohan

We present a simplified expression for the gravitational angular momentum in the framework of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR). The expression arises from the constraints equations of the Hamiltonian formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-24 J. F. da Rocha Neto , J. W. Maluf

The transit of a gravitating radiation pulse past arrays of detectors stationed near future null infinity in the vacuum is considered. It is shown that the relative positions and clock times of the detectors before and after the radiation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-24 Andrew Strominger , Alexander Zhiboedov

The non-linearity of the theory of gravity induces a hysteresis effect in both the systems interacting with gravity and in the gravitational field. The effect is usually referred to as the memory effect. In this paper, we explore this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Raihaneh Moti , Ali Shojai

Transport of angular momentum is a long-standing problem in stellar physics which recently became more acute thanks to the observations of the space-borne mission \emph{Kepler}. Indeed, the need for an efficient mechanism able to explain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-28 Kevin Belkacem

We study the difficulties associated with the evaluation of the total Bondi momentum at finite distances around the central source of a general (asymptotically flat) spacetime. Since the total momentum is only rigorously defined at future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emanuel Gallo , Luis Lehner , Osvaldo Moreschi

Astronomical observation of stellar rotation suggests that at least the surface layers of the Sun have lost a substantial amount of the angular momentum that they possessed at the beginning of the main-sequence phase of evolution; and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. O. Gough

Although the super-energy Bel-Robinson tensor gives a desirable gravitational energy-momentum in a small sphere region, the angular-momentum is vanishing. Intuitively, it should be non-zero. Our present work shows that indeed the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 Lau Loi So