English

The mass of light-cones

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-18 v2

Abstract

We give an elementary proof of positivity of total gravitational energy in space-times containing complete smooth light-cones.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1401.3789,
  title  = {The mass of light-cones},
  author = {Piotr T. Chruściel and Tim-Torben Paetz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3789},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages, short section added where the Bondi mass of space-times containing white hole regions is considered, this version corresponds to the one published in CQG

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