Approximate twistors and positive mass

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/7/075010zbMATH Open1215.83039arXiv1011.3712OpenAlexW2025855485MaRDI QIDQ2999458FDOQ2999458

Authors: Thomas Bäckdahl, Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon 

Publication date: 13 May 2011

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper the problem of comparing initial data to a reference solution for the vacuum Einstein field equations is considered. This is not done in a coordinate sense, but through quantification of the deviation from a specific symmetry. In a recent paper [T. B"ackdahl, J.A. Valiente Kroon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 231102 (2010)] this problem was studied with the Kerr solution as a reference solution. This analysis was based on valence 2 Killing spinors. In order to better understand this construction, in the present article we analyse the analogous construction for valence 1 spinors solving the twistor equation. This yields an invariant that measures how much the initial data deviates from Minkowski data. Furthermore, we prove that this invariant vanishes if and only of the mass vanishes. Hence, we get a proof of the positivity of mass.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3712

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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