Energy and momentum of cylindrical gravitational waves
Abstract
It was found manyyears ago that in cylindrical polar coordinates the energy and momentum densities of gravitational waves, calculated with the help of a pseudo-tensor, vanish. However, using cartesian coordinates, one finds them to be finite and reasonable.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- April 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00757123
- Bibcode:
- 1993GReGr..25..429R