# Mass and Angular Momentum in General Relativity

@inproceedings{Jaramillo2010MassAA,
title={Mass and Angular Momentum in General Relativity},
author={J L Jaramillo and E. Gourgoulhon},
year={2010}
}
• Published 29 January 2010
• Physics
We present an introduction to mass and angular momentum in General Relativity. After briefly reviewing energy–momentum for matter fields, first in the flat Minkowski case (Special Relativity) and then in curved spacetimes with or without symmetries, we focus on the discussion of energy–momentum for the gravitational field. We illustrate the difficulties rooted in the Equivalence Principle for defining a local energy–momentum density for the gravitational field. This leads to the understanding…
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