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A dynamically preferred quasi-local definition of gravitational energy is given in terms of the Hamiltonian of a `2+2' formulation of general relativity. The energy is well-defined for any compact orientable spatial 2-surface, and depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Sean A. Hayward

A new notion of quasilocal mass is defined for generic, compact, two dimensional, spacelike surfaces in four dimensional spacetimes with negative cosmological constant. The definition is spinorial and based on work for vanishing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Virinchi Rallabhandi

The quasilocal energy of gravitational and matter fields in a spatially bounded region is obtained by employing a Hamilton-Jacobi analysis of the action functional. First, a surface stress-energy-momentum tensor is defined by the functional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. David Brown , James W. York

A coordinate-free approach to limits of spacetimes is developed. The limits of the Schwarzschild metric as the mass parameter tends to 0 or $\infty$ are studied, extending previous results. Besides the known Petrov type D and 0 limits,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 F. M. Paiva , M. J. Rebouças , M. A. H. MacCallum

We give a brief review of the definition of the Wang-Yau quasilocal mass and discuss the evaluation of which on surfaces of unit size at null infinity of an axi-symmetric spacetime in Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner coordinates.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-26 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Ye-Kai Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

In this note, we prove mass-capacity inequalities for asymptotically flat manifolds whose boundary capacity potential satisfies an overdetermined problem, referred to as critical area-normalized capacitors. As a consequence, we obtain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Simon Raulot

In this study, we employ eth-operators and spin-weighted spherical harmonics to express the ADM mass of a static space-time based on the mean values of its components over a a radius-$r$ sphere. While initially derived for standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Leon Escobar-Diaz , Chris Stevens

Spherically symmetric spacetimes admit the so-called Kodama vector, which provides a locally conserved current and a preferred time even for dynamical spacetime without any time translation symmetry. A charge associated with this conserved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-19 Shunichiro Kinoshita

We present two complementary approaches for determining the reference for the covariant Hamiltonian boundary term quasi-local energy and test them on spherically symmetric spacetimes. On the one hand, we isometrically match the 2-surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Ming-Fan Wu , Chiang-Mei Chen , Jian-Liang Liu , James M. Nester

We discuss our recent work [4] in which gravitational radiation was studied by evaluating the Wang-Yau quasi-local mass of surfaces of fixed size at the infinity of both axial and polar perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime, \`{a} la…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

For a given timelike displacement vector the covariant Hamiltonian quasi-local energy expression requires a proper choice of reference spacetime. We propose a program for determining the reference by embedding a neighborhood of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Ming-Fan Wu , Chiang-Mei Chen , Jian-Liang Liu , James M. Nester

In geometric inequalities ADM mass plays more fundamental role than the concept of quasi-local mass. This paper is to demonstrate that using the quasi-local mass some new insights can be acquired. In spherically symmetric spacetimes the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Károly Zoltán Csukás

Gravitating systems have no well-defined local energy-momentum density. Various quasilocal proposals have been made, however the center-of-mass moment (COM) has generally been overlooked. Asymptotically flat graviating systems have 10 total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 James M. Nester , Feng-Feng Meng , Chiang-Mei Chen

The behaviour of geometric quantities close to geometric pathologies of a spacetime is relevant to deduce the physical behaviour of the system. In this work, we compute the quasi-local mass quantities - the Hawking mass, the Brown-York mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-30 Nishanth Gudapati , Shing-Tung Yau

There have been many attempts to define the notion of quasilocal mass for a spacelike 2-surface in spacetime by the Hamilton-Jacobi analysis. The essential difficulty in this approach is to identify the right choice of the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

The quasilocal energy associated with a constant stationary time slice of the Kerr spacetime is presented. The calculations are based on a recent proposal \cite{by} in which quasilocal energy is derived from the Hamiltonian of spatially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Erik A. Martinez

A new inequality for a nonlinear surface layer integral is proved for minimizers of causal variational principles. This inequality is applied to obtain a new proof of the positive mass theorem with volume constraint. Next, a positive mass…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran

In this article, we estimate the quasi-local energy with reference to the Minkowski spacetime [16,17], the anti-de Sitter spacetime [4], or the Schwarzschild spacetime [3]. In each case, the reference spacetime admits a conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

An `effective' quasi-local energy expression, motivated by the (relativistically corrected) Newtonian theory, is introduced in exact GR as the volume integral of all the source terms in the field equation for the Newtonian potential in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Jörg Frauendiener , László B Szabados

This paper presents a complete set of quasilocal densities which describe the stress-energy-momentum content of the gravitational field and which are built with Ashtekar variables. The densities are defined on a two-surface $B$ which bounds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Stephen R. Lau