<p>In this thesis we calculate the Hawking mass numerically for surfaces in Kerr spacetime. The Hawking mass is a useful tool for proving the Penrose inequality and the result does not contradict the inequality. It also does not contradict the assumption that the Hawking mass should be monotonic for surfaces in Kerr spacetime. The Hawking mass is quasi-local and defined by the spin coefficents of Newman and Penrose, so first we give a discussion about quasi-local quantities and then a short description of the Newman-Penrose formalism.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:liu-2533 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Jonsson Holm, Jonas |
| Publisher | Linköping University, Department of Mathematics, Matematiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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