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Limit of quasilocal mass at spatial infinity

Differential Geometry 2015-05-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the limit of quasilocal mass defined in [4] and [5] for a family of spacelike 2-surfaces in spacetime. In particular, we show the limit coincides with the ADM mass at spatial infinity. The limit for coordinate spheres of a boosted slice of the Schwarzchild solution is computed explicitly and shown to give the expected energy-momentum four vector.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0906.0200,
  title  = {Limit of quasilocal mass at spatial infinity},
  author = {Mu-Tao Wang and Shing-Tung Yau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.0200},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages, a new section ``Review of the definition of quasilocal energy" is added. Typos corrected

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