A new quasi-local mass and positivity

DOI10.1007/S10114-007-7153-1zbMATH Open1148.53307arXivgr-qc/0603004OpenAlexW2121611824MaRDI QIDQ943527FDOQ943527

Authors: Xiao Zhang 

Publication date: 9 September 2008

Published in: Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use an idea of Wang and Yau to give a new definition of quasi-local mass for a topological sphere in an initial date set. The new definition modifies Brown-York's definition by using certain spinor norm as lapse function. And it requires mean curvature of the topological sphere satisfies apparent horizon conditions, the topological sphere can be isometrically into Euclidean 3-space and mean curvature of the initial date set does not change sign. The positivity holds if we further assume the image of the topological sphere in Euclidean 3-space has nonnegative mean curvature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603004

zbMATH Keywords

general relativitypositivityquasi-local mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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