On the gravitational energy of the Kaluza Klein monopole

Abstract

We use local counterterm prescriptions for asymptotically flat space to compute the action and conserved quantities in five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein theories. As an application of these prescriptions we compute the mass of the Kaluza-Klein magnetic monopole. We find consistent results with previous approaches that employ a background subtraction.Comment: 11 pages, v.2 references and comments adde