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Phys. Rev. D 52, 5665–5669 (1995)

Gravitational energy in asymptotically anti–de Sitter spacetimes

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N. Pinto-Neto and I. Damião Soares
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Zavier Sigaud, 150-Urca, 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Received 21 February 1995; published in the issue dated 15 November 1995

The prescription proposed by Komar in order to calculate the total gravitational mass acting on a test particle in a given stationary asymptotically flat spacetime is generalized to stationary asymptotically anti–de Sitter spacetimes. It is shown that this generalized Komar mass is different from the total gravitational energy calculated by Henneaux and Teitelboim for the Kerr–anti-de Sitter spacetime. This last total energy agrees, however, with the total charge-energy calculated using the Brown-York action formalism.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.52.5665
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.52.5665
PACS:
04.20.Cv, 04.20.Ha