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Positivity of the Total Mass of a General Space-Time

Schoen, Richard, Yau, Shing-Tung·1979·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.43.1457
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The positive-mass conjecture states that for a nontrivial isolated physical system, the total energy, which includes contributions from both matter and gravitation, is positive. This assertion has been demonstrated in the important case when the space-time admits a maximal slice. Here this assumption is removed and the general mass conjecture is demonstrated. Also the topology of all possible asymptotically flat space-times satisfying the local energy condition is determined.

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Authors
Schoen, R., & Yau, S.-T.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
1979-11-12
Volume
43
Issue
20
Pages
1457-1459
ISSN
0031-9007
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.43.1457
Cited by
131
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Language
en
Licence
link.aps.org/licenses/aps-default-license (vor)

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