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These lecture notes deal with two topics that I believe are closely related. The first topic is the Kaluza-Klein theory — an old approach to unification of gauge fields with general relativity which is now more interesting than ever. The second topic is the positive energy theorem. It is relevant to Kaluza-Klein theory because it has a bearing on the question of what determines the stable ground state of general relativity; that is the key question that underlies the Kaluza-Klein theory.
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Witten, E. (1983). Kaluza-Klein Theory and the Positive Energy Theorem. In: Capri, A.Z., Kamal, A.N. (eds) Particles and Fields 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3593-1_6
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