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Killing energy with positive time signature (E=g(P,K))

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With metric signature (+−−−) and a future timelike stationary Killing vector K, positive energy is E=g(P,K) for future physical momentum P. A common (−+++) convention instead uses −g(P,K). The normalization of K fixes the observer or asymptotic time scale.

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