Evolution of angular momentum and center of mass at null infinity (Q2042373)

In this article the authors investigate angular momentum and center of mass at null infinity of asymptotically flat vacuum spacetimes. The obtained results complement the classical and widely known results of [\textit{H. Bondi} et al., Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 269, 21--52 (1962; Zbl 0106.41903)] and associated with them Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group. The authors are particularly interested in the total flux of angular momentum and motion of center of mass. As a consequence of the study, the authors conclude about a) supertranslation invariance of the fluxes of the Chen-Wang-Yau conserved quantities, b) a conservation law of angular momentum in the spirit of [\textit{D. Christodoulou}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, No. 12, 1486--1489 (1991; Zbl 0990.83504)], c) a duality relation for null infinity. Finally, the authors find that their own (Chen-Wang-Yau) definition of angular momentum differs from the classical one.