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Uniqueness of Scalar Field Energy and Gravitational Energy in the Radiating Regime

Uniqueness of Scalar Field Energy and Gravitational Energy in the Radiating Regime

The usual approaches to the definition of energy give an ambiguous result for the energy of fields in the radiating regime. We show that for a massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetime the definition may be rendered unambiguously by adding the requirement that the energy cannot increase in retarded time. …