Published February 21, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Angular momentum conservation for uniformly expanding flows

  • 1. School of Science, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237 (China)
  • 2. Center for Astrophysics, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234 (China)

Description

Angular momentum has recently been defined as a surface integral involving an axial vector and a twist 1-form, which measures the twisting around the spacetime due to a rotating mass. The axial vector is chosen to be a transverse, divergence-free, coordinate vector, which is compatible with any initial choice of axis and integral curves. Then a conservation equation expresses the rate of the change of angular momentum along a uniformly expanding flow as a surface integral of angular momentum densities, with the same form as the standard equation for an axial Killing vector, apart from the inclusion of an effective energy tensor for gravitational radiation

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/24/4/012;
PII
S0264-9381(07)36370-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
24
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 923-930
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38083836
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COORDINATES; COSMOLOGY; DENSITY; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; INTEGRALS; MASS; SPACE-TIME; VECTORS
Descriptors DEC
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIONS; TENSORS