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A new conformal quasi-local energy in general relativity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-06-06 v1 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We construct new conserved quasi-local energies in general relativity using the formalism developed by \cite{CWY}. In particular, we use the optimal isometric embedding defined in \cite{yau,yau1} to transplant the conformal Killing fields of the Minkowski space back to the 2 2- surface of interest in the physical spacetime. For an asymptotically flat spacetime of order 11, we show that these energies are always finite. Their limit as the total energies of an isolated system is evaluated and a conservation law under Einsteinian evolution is deduced.

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@article{arxiv.2406.02621,
  title  = {A new conformal quasi-local energy in general relativity},
  author = {Puskar Mondal and Shing-Tung Yau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.02621},
  year   = {2024}
}

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comments welcome. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2401.13909