• DOI:10.1007/BF00757123
Corpus ID: 128145567

Energy and momentum of cylindrical gravitational waves

@article{Rosen1993EnergyAM,
  title={Energy and momentum of cylindrical gravitational waves},
  author={N. Rosen and K. S. Virbhadra},
  journal={General Relativity and Gravitation},
  year={1993},
  volume={25},
  pages={429-433}
}

N. Rosen, K. S. Virbhadra

Published 1993

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General Relativity and Gravitation

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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.