Energy and momentum of cylindrical gravitational waves |
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Authors: | Nathan Rosen K. S. Virbhadra |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Physics, Technion, 32000 Haifa, Israel;(2) Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, 380 009 Ahmedabad, India |
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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. |
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