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Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 369–371 (1982)

Proof That the Bondi Mass is Positive

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Richard Schoen
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720

Shing Tung Yau
The Institute for Avanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Received 21 October 1981; published in the issue dated 8 February 1982

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.

© 1982 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.369
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.369
PACS:
04.20.Cv, 04.30.+x