Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Hawking energy,,lets discuss about it and its implication in life

The Hawking energy or Hawking mass is one of the possible definitions of mass in general relativity. It is a measure of the bending of ingoing and outgoing rays of light that areorthogonal to a 2-sphere surrounding the region of space whose mass is to be defined.


Let  be a 3-dimensional sub-manifold of a relativistic spacetime, and let  be a closed 2-surface. Then the Hawking mass  of  is defined to be
where  is the mean curvature of 

n the Schwarzschild metric, the Hawking mass of any sphere  about the central mass is equal to the value  of the central mass.
A result of Geroch implies that Hawking mass satisfies an important monotonicity condition. Namely, if  has nonnegative scalar curvature, then the Hawking mass of  is non-decreasing as the surface  flows outward at a speed equal to the inverse of the mean curvature. In particular, if  is a family of connected surfaces evolving according to
where  is the mean curvature of  and  is the unit vector opposite of the mean curvature direction, then
Said otherwise, Hawking mass is increasing for the inverse mean curvature flow
Hawking mass is not necessarily positive. However, it is asymptotic to the ADM[4] or the Bondi mass, depending on whether the surface is asymptotic to spatial infinity or null infinity.

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