Twisting null geodesic congruences, scri, H-space and spin-angular momentum

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/22/003zbMATH Open1078.83008arXivgr-qc/0506046OpenAlexW2000322337MaRDI QIDQ5709844FDOQ5709844

Authors: Ezra T. Newman, Carlos N. Kozameh, Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza 

Publication date: 30 November 2005

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The purpose of this work is to return, with a new observation and rather unconventional point of view, to the study of asymptotically flat solutions of Einstein equations. The essential observation is that from a given asymptotically flat space-time with a given Bondi shear, one can find (by integrating a partial differential equation) a class of asymptotically shear-free (but, in general, twistiing) null geodesic congruences. The class is uniquely given up to the arbitrary choice of a complex analytic world-line in a four-parameter complex space. Surprisingly this parameter space turns out to be the H-space that is associated with the real physical space-time under consideration. The main development in this work is the demonstration of how this complex world-line can be made both unique and also given a physical meaning. More specifically by forcing or requiring a certain term in the asymptotic Weyl tensor to vanish, the world-line is uniquely determined and becomes (by several arguments) identified as the `complex center-of-mass'. Roughly, its imaginary part becomes identified with the intrinsic spin-angular momentum while the real part yields the orbital angular momentum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506046

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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