Counter-examples to the generalized positive action conjecture

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 118 - Trang 591-596 - 1988
Claude LeBrun1
1Department of Mathematics, State University of New York, Story Brook, USA

Tóm tắt

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.

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