%0 Journal Article
%T A positive mass theorem for two spatial dimensions
%A Willie Wai-Yeung Wong
%J Mathematics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%X We observe that an analogue of the Positive Mass Theorem in the time-symmetric case for three-space-time-dimensional general relativity follows trivially from the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. In this case we also have that the spatial slice is diffeomorphic to $\Real^2$.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6279v2