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.
- Received 16 July 1979
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.1457
©1979 American Physical Society
