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The Newtonian limit of Penrose's quasi-local mass

B P Jeffryes

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Penrose's definition, (1982), of quasi-local mass is applied in the Newtonian limit of general relativity. The calculations are for 2-surfaces within a hypersurface of constant Newtonian time t. The leading-order terms in both the mass within the 2-surface and the difference between the mass and a conserved mass within the 2-surface are calculated. The former is just the Newtonian mass contained within the 2-surface and the latter, for a 2-surface surrounding an isolated system, gives the standard expression for the energy of the system. When applied to 2-surfaces containing parts of a system results interpretable in terms of binding energies appear.


PACS

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

MSC

83C60 Spinor and twistor methods; Newman-Penrose formalism

83C25 Approximation procedures, weak fields

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 5 (September 1986)



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