Proof That the Bondi Mass is Positive

Richard Schoen and Shing Tung Yau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 369 – Published 8 February 1982
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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.

  • Received 21 October 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.369

©1982 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Richard Schoen

  • University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720

Shing Tung Yau

  • The Institute for Ad¯vanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

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Vol. 48, Iss. 6 — 8 February 1982

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