Published May 7, 2004
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Journal article
A poor man's positive energy theorem
Creators
- 1. Departement de Mathematiques, Faculte des Sciences, Parc de Grandmont, F37200 Tours (France)
- 2. Department of Mathematics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33124 (United States)
Description
We show that positivity of energy for stationary, asymptotically flat, non-singular domains of outer communications is a simple corollary of the Lorentzian splitting theorem. (letter to the editor)
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/L59/cqg4_9_l01.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/L59/cqg4_9_l01.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0264-9381/21/9/L01;
- PII
- S0264-9381(04)75572-0;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Journal Volume
- 21
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- p. L59-L63
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- CODEN
- CQGRDG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35083359
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ENERGY; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SINGULARITY
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES