A positive Bondi-type mass in asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/20/205011zbMATH Open1327.83102arXiv1505.06637OpenAlexW3104535431MaRDI QIDQ3453167FDOQ3453167

Authors: László B. Szabados, Paul Tod 

Publication date: 20 November 2015

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

Abstract: The general structure of the conformal boundary $mathscr{I}^{+}$ of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes is investigated. First we show that Penrose's quasi-local mass, associated with a cut $calS$ of the conformal boundary, can be zero even in the presence of outgoing gravitational radiation. On the other hand, following a Witten--type spinorial proof, we show that an analogous expression based on the Nester--Witten form is finite only if the Witten spinor field solves the 2-surface twistor equation on $calS$, and it yields a positive functional on the 2-surface twistor space on $calS$, provided the matter fields satisfy the dominant energy condition. Moreover, this functional is vanishing if and only if the domain of dependence of the spacelike hypersurface which intersects $mathscr{I}^{+}$ in the cut $calS$ is locally isometric to the de Sitter spacetime. For non-contorted cuts this functional yields an invariant analogous to the Bondi mass.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06637

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zbMATH Keywords

de Sitter spacetimeBondi masstwo-surface twistors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Gravitational waves (83C35) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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