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Mass from an Extrinsic Point of View

Differential Geometry 2025-03-19 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We express the qq-th Gauss-Bonnet-Chern mass of an immersed submanifold of Euclidean space as a linear combination of two terms: the total (2q)(2q)-th mean curvature and the integral, over the entire manifold, of the inner product between the (2q+1)(2q+1)-th mean curvature vector and the position vector of the immersion. As a consequence, we obtain, for each qq, a geometric inequality that holds whenever the positive mass theorem (for the qq-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}
}