Regularizing role of teleparallelism

Understand

The properties of the gravitational energy-momentum 3-form and of the superpotential 2-form are discussed in the covariant teleparallel framework, where the Weitzenb\"ock connection represents inertial effects related to the choice of the frame.

• Due to its odd asymptotic behavior, the contribution of the inertial effects often yields unphysical (divergent or trivial) results for the total energy of the system.
• However, in the covariant teleparallel approach, the energy is always finite and nontrivial.
• The teleparallel connection plays a role of a regularizing tool which subtracts the inertial effects without distorting the true gravitational contribution.