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arxiv: gr-qc/0403103 · v2 · submitted 2004-03-25 · 🌀 gr-qc

Quasilocal Center-of-Mass

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Gravitating systems have no well-defined local energy-momentum density. Various quasilocal proposals have been made, however the center-of-mass moment (COM) has generally been overlooked. Asymptotically flat graviating systems have 10 total conserved quantities associated with the Poincar{\'e} symmetry at infinity. In addition to energy-momentum and angular momentum (associated with translations and rotations) there is the boost quantity: the COM. A complete quasilocal formulation should include this quantity. Getting good values for the COM is a fairly strict requirement, imposing the most restrictive fall off conditions on the variables. We take a covariant Hamiltonian approach, associating Hamiltonian boundary terms with quasilocal quantities and boundary conditions. Unlike several others, our {\it covariant symplectic} quasilocal expressions do have the proper asymptotic form for all 10 quantities.

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