Energy-Momentum and Angular Momentum Carried by Gravitational Waves in Extended New General Relativity (Q4804484)

The authors first give an outline of that version of the Poincaré gauge theory which was proposed by one of the authors (T.K.) in 1986 to formulate then the so-called extended new general relativity (ENGR), published by T.K. in 1991, as a reduction of this theory. In contrast to general relativity theory, this ENGR, since it is a teleparallel theory of gravity, allows for a general definition of dynamical energy-momentum and spin angular momentum densities of gravitational and matter fields as space-time vector densities. In this paper, the energy-momentum and angular momentum carried by gravitational waves radiated from Newtonian point masses are examined. For this purpose, the authors present the gravitational field equations and the energy-momentum of the gravitational field in the weak-field approximation, give the average of the energy-momentum over a sufficiently large space-time region for plane wave solutions of the linearized field equations, and calculate finally the quadrupole radiation formula for a gravitational wave emitted from a system of point masses. It is shown that, in the considered approximation, the losses of energy-momentum and angular momentum as well as the wave form are identical to the corresponding quantities in general relativity.