Mass and volume of four-dimensional Einstein metrics
Differential Geometry
2025-12-09 v1
Abstract
Let be an Einstein manifold, where is a smooth, closed, oriented four-manifold and has positive Einstein constant. Given a point , let denote the (positive) Green's function of the conformal laplacian ; then is a complete, scalar-flat, asymptotically flat metric on . We first show that the ADM mass of can be expressed as an integral over , then use this identity to prove a lower bound for the mass of in terms of the volume of . As corollaries, we prove a 'mass times volume' inequality, plus various mass gap theorems characterizing the round metric on and the Fubini-Study metric on .
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@article{arxiv.2512.07257,
title = {Mass and volume of four-dimensional Einstein metrics},
author = {Matthew Gursky and Andrea Malchiodi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07257},
year = {2025}
}