Published February 21, 2007
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Journal article
Angular momentum conservation for uniformly expanding flows
Creators
- 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