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Quasilocal energy in modified gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-02-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A new generalization of the Hawking-Hayward quasilocal energy to scalar-tensor gravity is proposed without assuming symmetries, asymptotic flatness, or special spacetime metrics. The procedure followed is simple but powerful and consists of writing the scalar-tensor field equations as effective Einstein equations and then applying the standard definition of quasilocal mass.

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@article{arxiv.1508.06849,
  title  = {Quasilocal energy in modified gravity},
  author = {Valerio Faraoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06849},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Corrected an error and added a section on Einstein frame. Matches version published in Class. Quantum Grav

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