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Quasi-local mass on unit spheres at spatial infinity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-01-23 v1 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

In this note, we compute the limit of the Wang-Yau quasi-local mass on unit spheres at spatial infinity of an asymptotically flat initial data set. Similar to the small sphere limit of the Wang-Yau quasi-local mass, we prove that the leading order term of the quasi-local mass recovers the stress-energy tensor. For a vacuum spacetime, the quasi-local mass decays faster and the leading order term is related to the Bel-Robinson tensor. Several new techniques of evaluating quasilocal mass are developed in this note.

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@article{arxiv.1901.06954,
  title  = {Quasi-local mass on unit spheres at spatial infinity},
  author = {Po-Ning Chen and Mu-Tao Wang and Ye-Kai Wang and Shing-Tung Yau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06954},
  year   = {2019}
}

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24 pages

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