Komar angular momentum with inner boundaries

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Komar angular momentum with inner boundaries by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
With zero cosmological constant and the component Hodge star operator convention , the Einstein field equations and Killing equation give . If is tangent to a spacelike hypersurface, the trace term pulls back to zero. For , Stokes theorem yields
The inner Komar charges cannot be dropped for a vacuum Kerr black hole, whose angular momentum is nonzero although its stress-energy tensor vanishes. A matter-only volume formula requires a regular filling with no inner boundaries.

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