Proof That the Bondi Mass is Positive
Abstract
It is demonstrated that the total mass of a nontrivial isolated physical system is positive even after part of its mass has been lost because of gravitational radiation. This method is an extension of the one that the authors used in the proff of the classical positive-mass conjecture.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.369
- Bibcode:
- 1982PhRvL..48..369S
- Keywords:
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- 04.20.Cv;
- 04.30.+x;
- Fundamental problems and general formalism