Spinor fields and the positive energy theorem

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, , Citation A Dimakis and F Muller-Hoissen 1990 Class. Quantum Grav. 7 283 DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/7/3/005

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Abstract

It is shown that the spinor field in Witten's proof of the positive energy theorem determines via Witten's equation a class of orthonormal frame fields with respect to which an expression for the total energy of an asymptotically flat spacetime becomes manifestly non-negative.

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