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A new way to calculate black hole mass using alternative gravity?
E. D. Emtsova, A. N. Petrov
May 22, 2026
Teleparallel gravity rewrites Einstein's theory using tetrads instead of curvature, but lacks a clean field-theory toolkit. This work builds one from scratch — a Lagrangian framework where gravitational perturbations propagate on any background, with proper gauge invariance and conserved charges via Noether's theorem. As a sanity check, it recovers the correct mass and angular momentum for Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes, and derives standard gravitational wave equations in TT-gauge.
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