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The mass of light-cones

Piotr T. Chruściel, Tim-Torben Paetz

Classical and Quantum Gravity · 2014 · 10 citations · 14 references

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Abstract

We give an elementary proof of positivity of total gravitational energy in space-times containing complete smooth light-cones.

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