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Equation 26 · Part 1 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

Symbol J^munu

JμνJ^{\mu\nu}
JμνJ^{\mu\nu}

What this part means

JmJ^munu is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Its job in the formula

JmJ^munu is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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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