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Quasi-Asimptotically Flat Spacetimes and Their ADM Mass

Ulises Nucamendi, Daniel Sudarsky

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9611043

Abstract

We define spacetimes that are asymptotically flat, except for a deficit solid angle α, and present a definition of their ``ADM'' mass, which is finite for this class of spacetimes, and, in particular, coincides with the value of the parameter M of the global monopole spacetime studied by Vilenkin and Barriola . Moreover, we show that the definition is coordinate independent, and explain why it can, in some cases, be negative.

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