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Equation 25 · Part 8 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

Starting index or lower bound: Sigma

Pμ=∫ΣTμν dΣνP^\mu = \int_\Sigma T^{\mu\nu}\, d\Sigma_\nu
Σ\Sigma

What this part means

This label says where the repeated addition, multiplication, or accumulation starts. Read its value or condition together with the article’s description of the index.

Its job in the formula

Sigma appears in the bound of this integral. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.

The passage around this formula

Xμ(u,Σ)X^\mu(u,\Sigma) is this article’s first chart. It takes two pieces of auxiliary data, an observer and a slice, and returns a point. Different choices of (u,Σ\Sigma) for the identical physical body — the identical TαβT^{\alpha\beta} field, the identical total four-momentum PμP^\mu = ∫Σ\int_\Sigma TμνT^{\mu\nu}\, dΣν\Sigma_\nu and total angular momentum JμνJ^{\mu\nu} — can and do return different points, and the question this article is built to answer precisely is how different, and under what conditions the difference means something rather than nothing.

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Learn the underlying idea

Σ adds a collection of terms. Π multiplies them. The lower and upper labels tell you which terms belong to the collection.

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