Evolution of angular momentum and center of mass at null infinity

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04053-7MaRDI QIDQ2042373zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Poning Chen, Jordan Keller, M.-T. Wang, Ye-Kai Wang, Shing-Tung Yau

Publication date 29 July 2021

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03221

zbMATH Keywords

Bondi mass loss formulagravitational radiation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: We study how conserved quantities such as angular momentum and center of mass evolve with respect to the retarded time at null infinity, which is described in terms of a Bondi-Sachs coordinate system. These evolution formulae complement the classical Bondi mass loss formula for gravitational radiation. They are further expressed in terms of the potentials of the shear and news tensors. The consequences that follow from these formulae are (1) Supertranslation invariance of the fluxes of the CWY conserved quantities. (2) A conservation law of angular momentum `a la Christodoulou. (3) A duality paradigm for null infinity. In particular, the supertranslation invariance distinguishes the CWY angular momentum and center of mass from the classical definitions.

Review text

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.

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