Counter-examples to the generalized positive action conjecture

Claude LeBrun

doi:10.1007/BF01221110

Counter-examples to the generalized positive action conjecture

Claude LeBrun

Mathematics

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

We give examples of complete locally asymptotically flat Riemannian 4-manifolds with zero scalar curvature and negative mass. The generalized positive action conjecture of Hawking and Pope [5] is therefore false.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	591-596
Number of pages	6
Journal	Communications in Mathematical Physics
Volume	118
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01221110
State	Published - Dec 1988

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