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Quasilocal Energy in General Relativity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-04-13 v2

Abstract

We show that the quasilocal mass defined by Wang and Yau is not well-defined at spatial infinity. It approaches neither the ADM mass nor the ADM energy. We suggest an alternative scheme which retains all the desirable characteristics of the Wang-Yau mass and, in addition, asymptotes to the ADM energy at infinity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0905.0647,
  title  = {Quasilocal Energy in General Relativity},
  author = {Niall Ó Murchadha and Roh-Suan Tung and Naqing Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0647},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn. We find that there are significant difficulties with the computation and we are currently not happy with the results presented in this article.

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