Proof of the Positive-Action Conjecture in Quantum Relativity
- 26 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 42 (9), 547-548
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.42.547
Abstract
We extend our previous method of proving the positive-mass conjecture to prove the positive-action conjecture of Hawking for asymptotically Euclidean metric. This result is crucial in proving the path integral convergent in the Euclidean quantum gravity theory.Keywords
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