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Quasi-local energy with respect to a static spacetime

Differential Geometry 2016-04-12 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

This article considers the quasi-local energy in reference to a general static spacetime. We follow the approach developed by the authors in [19, 20, 7, 9] and define the quasi-local energy as a difference of surface Hamiltonians, which are derived from the Einstein-Hilbert action. The new quasi-local energy provides an effective gauge independent measurement of how far a spacetime deviates away from the reference static spacetime on a finitely extended region.

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@article{arxiv.1604.02983,
  title  = {Quasi-local energy with respect to a static spacetime},
  author = {Po-Ning Chen and Mu-Tao Wang and Ye-Kai Wang and Shing-Tung Yau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02983},
  year   = {2016}
}

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16 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1603.02975