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Gravitational Mass in Asymptotically de Sitter Space-Times with Compactified Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We define gravitational mass in asymptotically de Sitter space-times with compactified dimension. It was shown that the mass can be negative for space-time with matter spreading beyond the cosmological horizon scale or large outward `momentum' in four dimension. We give simple examples with negative energy in higher dimensions even if the matter is not beyond horizon or system does not have large `momentum'. They do not have the lower bound on the mass. We also give a positive energy argument in higher dimensions and realise that elementary fermion cannot exist in our examples.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9902049,
  title  = {Gravitational Mass in Asymptotically de Sitter Space-Times with Compactified Dimensions},
  author = {Tetsuya Shiromizu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9902049},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, the version to be published in Phys. Rev. D