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The null infinity limit of the gravitational energy-momentum and energy flux determined by the covariant Hamiltonian quasi-local expressions is evaluated using the NP spin coefficients. The reference contribution is considered by three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiaoning Wu , Chiang-Mei Chen , James M. Nester

We discuss the concepts of energy and mass in relativity. On a finitely extended spatial region, they lead to the notion of quasilocal energy/mass for the boundary 2-surface in spacetime. A new definition was found in [27] that satisfies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-08 Mu-Tao Wang

We investigate a quasi-local energy naturally introduced by Kodama's prescription for a spherically symmetric space-time with a positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We find that this quasi-local energy is well behaved inside a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken-ichi Nakao

A quasi-local mass, typically defined as an integral over a spacelike $2$-surface $\Sigma$, should encode information about the gravitational field within a finite, extended region bounded by $\Sigma$. Therefore, in attempts to quantize…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Bowen Zhao , Shing-Tung Yau , Lars Andersson

We study various definitions of the gravitational field energy based on the usage of isometric embeddings in the Regge-Teitelboim approach. For the embedding theory we consider the coordinate translations on the surface as well as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-10 D. A. Grad , R. V. Ilin , S. A. Paston , A. A. Sheykin

In general relativity, the local gravitational energy is best characterised by the quasilocal mass. The small sphere limit of quasilocal mass provides us the most local notion of gravitational energy. In four dimensions, the limits were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-27 Jinzhao Wang

Using the Noether Charge formulation, we study a perturbation of the conserved gravitating system. By requiring the boundary term in the variation of the Hamiltonian to depend only on the symplectic structure, we propose a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Roh S. Tung

We prove the following stronger verson of the positivity of quasi-local mass stated in gr-qc/0303019: the quasi-local energy (mass) of each connected component of the boundary of a compact spacelike hypersurface which satisfies the local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu , Shing-Tung Yau

In [13], a new quasi-local energy is introduced for spacetimes with a non-zero cosmological constant. In this article, we study the small sphere limit of this newly defined quasi-local energy for spacetimes with a negative cosmological…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Po-Ning Chen

The quasi-local energy conservation law is derived from the vacuum Einstein's equations on the timelike boundary surface in the canonical (2,2)-formalism of general relativity. The quasi-local energy and energy flux integral agree with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jong Hyuk Yoon

In this paper, by arising condition in variation, from equal time to non-equal time, I reconsider how geometrodynamics equations allow to be derived from variational principle in general relativity and then find the variation of extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-15 Qian Chen

It is shown that under proper conditions in an appropriate coordinate system with a suitable time slicing the Hamiltonian and the Einstein-Hilbert action including all necessary boundary terms can be written on shell in terms of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Bjoern S. Schmekel

Recent advances in quantum thermodynamics have been focusing on ever more elementary systems of interest, approaching the limit of a single qubit, with correlations, strong coupling and non-equilibrium environments coming into play. Under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Luis Rodrigo Torres Neves , Frederico Brito

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

Whether energy is conserved in a universe which keeps expanding is an intriguing question. It is tempting to argue that the total energy within the universe would have to increase as the universe expands. Upon more detailed inspection the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-23 Bjoern S. Schmekel

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-13 Niall Ó Murchadha , Roh-Suan Tung , Naqing Xie

A general prescription for constructing quasi-local conserved quantities in General Relativity is proposed. The construction is applied to BMS symmetry generators in Newman-Unti gauge, so as to define quasi-local BMS charges. It is argued…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Henk Bart

The definition of quasi-local mass for a bounded space-like region in space-time is essential in several major unsettled problems in general relativity. The quasi-local mass is expected to be a type of flux integral on the boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

It is argued that, unlike for other fields, the quasilocal parts of the gravitational field are always bounded by surfaces of extremal area.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-27 Joan Camps

We define a new gauge independent quasi-local mass and energy, and show its relation to the Brown-York Hamilton-Jacobi analysis. A quasi-local proof of the positivity, based on spacetime harmonic functions, is given for admissible closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Aghil Alaee , Marcus Khuri , Shing-Tung Yau