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We present a definition of angular momentum for radiative spacetimes which does not suffer from any ambiguity of supertranslations. We succeed in providing an appropriate notion of {\it intrinsic} angular momentum; and at the same time a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Osvaldo M. Moreschi

We define the angular momentum at null infinity in higher dimensions. The asymptotic symmetry at null infinity becomes the Poincare group in higher dimensions. This fact implies that the angular momentum can be defined without any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Kentaro Tanabe , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Shunichiro Kinoshita

A modification of General Relativity that is based on the gravitational Standard-Model Extension and incorporates nondynamical background fields has recently been studied via the ADM formalism. Our objective in this paper is to develop a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-15 Carlos M. Reyes , Marco Schreck

The ``standard'' expressions for total energy, linear momentum and also angular momentum of asymptotically flat Bondi metrics at null infinity are also obtained from differential conservation laws on asymptotically flat backgrounds, derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Joseph Katz , Dorit Lerer

We give physical explanations of explicit invariant expressions for the energy and angular momentum densities of gravitational fields in stationary space-times. These expressions involve non-locally defined conformal factors. In certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 D. Lynden-Bell , Joseph Katz , Jiri Bicak

The gravitational energy-momentum and angular momentum satisfy the algebra of the Poincare group in the full phase space of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity. The expression for the gravitational energy-momentum may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 J. W. Maluf , S. C. Ulhoa

A new definition of quasi--local angular momentum of non--axisymmetric marginally outer trapped surfaces is proposed. It is based on conformal decomposition of the two--dimensional metric and the action of the group of conformal symmetries.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mikolaj Korzynski

In teleparallelism one is able to tackle the gravitational energy and angular momentum problems in a way that distinguishes this theory from other theories of gravity, such as general relativity. However, unlike the $4$-momentum, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 J. B. Formiga , R. D. Costa

We carry out the Hamiltonian formulation of the three- dimensional gravitational teleparallelism without imposing the time gauge condition, by rigorously performing the Legendre transform. Definition of the gravitational angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Sousa , R. B. Pereira , J. F. da Rocha-Neto

Energy-momentum (and angular momentum) for the Metric-Affine Gravity theory is considered from a Hamiltonian perspective (linked with the Noether approach). The important roles of the Hamiltonian boundary term and the many choices involved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 James M. Nester , Chiang-Mei Chen , Yu-Heui Wu

The energy-momentum and angular momentum contained in a spacelike two-surface of spherical topology are estimated by joining the two-surface to null infinity via an approximate no-incoming-radiation condition. The result is a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Adam D. Helfer

Angular momentum can be defined by rearranging the Komar surface integral in terms of a twist form, encoding the twisting around of space-time due to a rotating mass, and an axial vector. If the axial vector is a coordinate vector and has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean A. Hayward

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

The supertranslation ambiguity issue of angular momentum is a long-standing problem in general relativity. Recently, there appeared the first definition of angular momentum at null infinity that is supertranslation invariant. However, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 Xiaokai He , Xiaoning Wu , Naqing Xie

The ADM formalism is reviewed and techniques for decomposing generic components of metric, connection and curvature are obtained. These techniques will turn out to be enough to decompose not only Einstein equations but also covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 L. Fatibene , M. Ferraris , M. Francaviglia , L. Lusanna

An angular momentum operator in loop quantum gravity is defined using spherically symmetric states as a non-rotating reference system. It can be diagonalized simultaneously with the area operator and has the familiar spectrum. The operator…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Bojowald

Four expressions involving sums of position and velocity coordinates bounding the total angular momentum of particle systems, and by extension of any continuous or discontinuous material systems, are derived which are tighter for any…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Daniel Pfenniger

We describe the dynamics of a relativistic extended object in terms of the geometry of a configuration of constant time. This involves an adaptation of the ADM formulation of canonical general relativity. We apply the formalism to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Riccardo Capovilla , Jemal Guven , Efrain Rojas

How does one measure the angular momentum carried away by gravitational radiation during the merger of a binary black hole? This has been a subtle issue since the 1960's due to the discovery of ``supertranslation ambiguity": the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-07 Mu-Tao Wang

In general relativity, an idealized distant observer is situated at future null infinity where light rays emitted from the source approach. This article concerns conserved quantities such as mass, energy-momentum, angular momentum, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-11 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Ye-Kai Wang , Shing-Tung Yau