Positivity of the Total Mass of a General Space-Time
- 12 November 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (20), 1457-1459
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.1457
Abstract
The positive-mass conjecture states that for a nontrivial isolated physical system, the total energy, which includes contributions from both matter and gravitation, is positive. This assertion has been demonstrated in the important case when the space-time admits a maximal slice. Here this assumption is removed and the general mass conjecture is demonstrated. Also the topology of all possible asymptotically flat space-times satisfying the local energy condition is determined.Keywords
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