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An expression for quasi-local energy is suggested. The calculation looks locally at an Alexandrov neighborhood whose boundary is defined by the intersection of the future and past cones from nearby time-like separated points. The calculation uses the canonical formalism on a null cone and defines the quasi-local energy as a two-surface integral over the convergence of the past cone minus a similar integral over a surface in Minkowski space. This definition is suggested by the results of an analysis at null infinity.
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Goldberg, J.N. (2003). Quasi-Local Energy. In: Renn, J., et al. Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0111-3_17
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