However, the construction is not complete. First, the construction does not work for two-surfaces, whose
topology is different from , and does not work even for certain topological two-spheres for which the
two-surface twistor equation admits more than four independent solutions (‘exceptional two-surfaces’).
Second, two additional objects, the infinity twistor and a Hermitian inner product on the space of
two-surface twistors, are needed to get the energy-momentum and angular momentum from the kinematical
twistor and to ensure their reality. The latter is needed if we want to define the quasi-local mass as
a norm of the kinematical twistor. However, no natural infinity twistor has been found, and
no natural Hermitian scalar product can exist if the two-surface cannot be embedded into a
conformally flat spacetime. In addition, in small surface calculations the quasi-local mass may be
complex. If, however, we do not want to form invariants of the kinematical twistor (e.g., the
mass), but we do want to extract the energy-momentum and angular momentum from the
kinematical twistor and we want them to be real, then only a special combination of the infinity
twistor and the Hermitian scalar product, the ‘bar-hook combination’ (see Eq. (7.9
)), would be
needed.
To save the main body of the construction, the definition of the kinematical twistor was modified. Nevertheless, the mass in the modified constructions encountered an inherent ambiguity in the small surface approximation. One can still hope to find an appropriate ‘bar-hook’, and hence, real energy-momentum and angular momentum, but invariants, such as norms, cannot be formed.
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Living Rev. Relativity 12, (2009), 4
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