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In relativity, the energy of a moving particle depends on the observer, and the rest mass is the minimal energy seen among all observers. The Wang-Yau quasi-local mass for a surface in spacetime introduced in [7] and [8] is defined by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-15 PoNing Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

In general relativity, quasi-local energy-momentum expressions have been constructed from various formulae. However, Newtonian theory of gravity gives a well known and an unique quasi-local mass expression (surface integration). Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu-Huei Wu , Chih-Hung Wang

We have proposed a program for determining the reference for the quasi-local energy defined in the covariant Hamiltonian formalism. Our program has been tested by applying it to the spherically symmetric spacetimes. With respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Chiang-Mei Chen , Jian-Liang Liu , James M. Nester , Ming-Fan Wu

Our topic concerns a long standing puzzle: the energy of gravitating systems. More precisely we want to consider, for gravitating systems, how to best describe energy-momentum and angular momentum/center-of-mass momentum (CoMM). It is known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-29 Chiang-Mei Chen , James M. Nester , Roh-Suan Tung

The purpose of the classical Einstein and Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensors is for determining the gravitational energy. Neither of them can guarantee a positive energy in holonomic frames. In the small sphere approximation, it has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 Lau Loi So

We first describe a class of spinor-curvature identities (SCI) which have gravitational applications. Then we sketch the topic of gravitational energy-momentum, its connection with Hamiltonian boundary terms and the issues of positivity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chiang-Mei Chen , James M. Nester , Roh-Suan Tung

Gravity, and the puzzle regarding its energy, can be understood from a gauge theory perspective. Gravity, i.e., dynamical spacetime geometry, can be considered as a local gauge theory of the symmetry group of Minkowski spacetime: the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-30 Chiang-Mei Chen , James M. Nester

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

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

We show that the Hamiltonian dynamics of the self-interacting, abelian p-form theory in D=2p+2 dimensional space-time gives rise to the quasi-local structure. Roughly speaking, it means that the field energy is localized but on closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Chruscinski

In General Relativity, there have been many proposals for defining the gravitational energy density, notably those proposed by Einstein, Tolman, Landau and Lifshitz, Papapetrou, M{\o}ller, and Weinberg. In this review, we firstly explored…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-12 Salvatore Capozziello , Maurizio Capriolo , Gaetano Lambiase

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

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

For a spacelike 2-surface in spacetime, we propose a new definition of quasi-local angular momentum and quasi-local center of mass, as an element in the dual space of the Lie algebra of the Lorentz group. Together with previous defined…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

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

Based on the quasi-local energy definition of Brown and York, we compute the integral of the trace of the extrinsic curvature over a codimension-2 hypersurface. In particular, we study the difference between the uncompactified Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Enrique Alvarez , Jesus Anero , Guillermo Milans del Bosch , Raquel Santos-Garcia

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

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

For describing the non-negative gravitational energy-momentum in terms of a pure Bel-Robinson type energy-momentum in a quasi-local 2-surface, both the Bel-Robinson tensor $B$ and tensor $V$ are suitable. We have found that this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-02 Lau Loi So

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