Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1997-08-23
Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 3413-3423
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
LaTeX file, 13 pages, submitted to Class. Quant. Grav
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/14/12/023
We derive a general integral formula on an embedded hypersurface for general relativistic space-times. Suppose the hypersurface is foliated by two-dimensional compact ``sections'' $S_s$. Then the formula relates the rate of change of the divergence of outgoing light rays integrated over $S_s$ under change of section to geometric (convexity and curvature) properties of $S_s$ and the energy-momentum content of the space-time. We derive this formula using the Sparling-Nester-Witten identity for spinor fields on the hypersurface by appropriate choice of the spinor fields. We discuss several special cases which have been discussed in the literature before, most notably the Bondi mass loss formula.
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