Proof of Positive Energy Theorem by spacetime foliations

Abstract

Here we present an alternative approach, requiring only basic tools of differential geometry. This method was conceived by Kijowski and first presented during the IV Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity in Rome (1986). It was later published in a generalized form by J. Jezierski, J. Kijowski in 1987 (Positivity of total energy in general relativity, Physical Review D {\bf 36} (1987), 1041-4). We summarize these results briefly and present a new foliation gauge.