Minimizing properties of critical points of quasi-local energy

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-1909-0zbMATH Open1294.83020arXiv1302.5321OpenAlexW3103049105MaRDI QIDQ2249771FDOQ2249771

Authors: Poning Chen, M.-T. Wang, Shing-Tung Yau 

Publication date: 3 July 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 minimizing quasi-local energy associated with admissible isometric embeddings of the surface into the Minkowski space. A critical point of the quasi-local energy is an isometric embedding satisfying the Euler-Lagrange equation. In this article, we prove results regarding both local and global minimizing properties of critical points of the Wang-Yau quasi-local energy. In particular, under a condition on the mean curvature vector we show a critical point minimizes the quasi-local energy locally. The same condition also implies that the critical point is globally minimizing among all axially symmetric embedding provided the image of the associated isometric embedding lies in a totally geodesic Euclidean 3-space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5321

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zbMATH Keywords

critical pointsMinkowski spacemoving particlequasi-local energyisometric embeddingsWang-Yau quasi-local energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

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