id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_hgq52iwbgvcmnl4fxxvnwjtge4 Vincent Lam Gravitational and Nongravitational Energy: The Need for Background Structures 2011 11 .pdf application/pdf 5010 305 51 The aim of this paper is to discuss some aspects of the nature gravitational energy within the general theory of relativity. This is a very general definition of the energy-momentum tensor associated with any given matter fields, whose dynamics is derived from a energy-momentum conservation from the point of view of the space-time that is, by their associated Killing vector fields.4 The existence of a genuine (that is, integral) energy(-mometum) conservation law is then bound Now the integral formulation (6) genuinely means (non-gravitational) energy-mometum conservation (with respect to the intergal curves of the timelike vector field with respect to which integral non-gravitational energy-momentum conservation can be obtained; indeed, a timelike Killing vector field can be dependence of tµν shows that there is indeed no local (unique) gravitational energy-momentum, in the sense that such quantity cannot be in background with respect to which gravitational (and non-gravitational indeed) energy-momentum can be defined and localized. ./cache/work_hgq52iwbgvcmnl4fxxvnwjtge4.pdf ./txt/work_hgq52iwbgvcmnl4fxxvnwjtge4.txt