From bending of light to positive mass: a non-PDE perspective

DOI10.1063/5.0050978zbMATH Open1465.83018arXiv2101.02081OpenAlexW3169161340MaRDI QIDQ5000203FDOQ5000203

Authors: Xiaokai He, Xiao-Ning Wu, Naqing Xie 

Publication date: 9 July 2021

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

Abstract: Penrose et al. investigated the physical incoherence of the spacetime with negative mass via the bending of light. Precise estimates of time-delay of null geodesics were needed and played a pivotal role in their proof. In this paper, we construct an intermediate diagonal metric and make a reduction of this problem to a causality comparison in the compactified spacetimes regarding timelike connectedness near the conformal infinities. This different approach allows us to avoid encountering the difficulties and subtle issues Penrose et al. met. It provides a new, substantially simple, and physically natural non-PDE viewpoint to understand the positive mass theorem. This elementary argument modestly applies to asymptotically flat solutions which are vacuum and stationary near infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02081

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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