Is mass conformally invariant ?
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By using the Garfinkle, Horowitz and Strominger black hole solutions as examples, we illustrate that, with respect to the reference action functional proposed by Hawking and Horowitz, the asymp-totic mass parameter is not invariant between two conformally related static spherically symmetric metrics.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997