PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE
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On the notion quasilocal mass in general relativity Speaker(s): Mu-Tao Wang
Abstract: There have been many attempts to define quasilocal mass for a spacelike 2-surface in a spacetime by the Hamilton-Jacobi method. The essential difficulty in this approach is the choice of the background configuration to be subtracted from the physical Hamiltonian. The quasilocal mass should be positi... read more
Date: 08/05/2010 - 8:30 am
Collection: Connections in Geometry and Physics 2010
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