Mass from an Extrinsic Point of View
Differential Geometry
2025-03-19 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We express the -th Gauss-Bonnet-Chern mass of an immersed submanifold of Euclidean space as a linear combination of two terms: the total -th mean curvature and the integral, over the entire manifold, of the inner product between the -th mean curvature vector and the position vector of the immersion. As a consequence, we obtain, for each , a geometric inequality that holds whenever the positive mass theorem (for the -th Gauss-Bonnet-Chern mass) holds.
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@article{arxiv.2403.06782,
title = {Mass from an Extrinsic Point of View},
author = {Alexandre de Sousa and Frederico Girão},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.06782},
year = {2025}
}