https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7779-z
Letter
Universality of the Poincaré gravitational form factor constraints
CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Route de Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau, France
* e-mail: peter.lowdon@polytechnique.edu
Received:
5
September
2019
Accepted:
24
February
2020
Published online:
5
March
2020
Relativistic spin states are convention dependent. In this work we prove that the zero momentum-transfer limits of the leading two form factors in the decomposition of the energy–momentum tensor matrix elements are independent of this choice. In particular, we demonstrate that these constraints are insensitive to whether the corresponding states are massive or not, and that they arise purely due to the Poincaré covariance of the states.
© The Author(s), 2020
