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Removable singularity of positive mass theorem with continuous metrics

Differential Geometry 2020-12-29 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we consider asymptotically flat Riemannnian manifolds (Mn,g)(M^n,g) with C0C^0 metric gg and gg is smooth away from a closed bounded subset Σ\Sigma and the scalar curvature Rg0R_g\ge 0 on MΣM\setminus \Sigma. For given npn\le p\le \infty, if gC0W1,pg\in C^0\cap W^{1,p} and the Hausdorff measure Hnpp1(Σ)<\mathcal{H}^{n-\frac{p}{p-1}}(\Sigma)<\infty when np<n\le p<\infty or Hn1(Σ)=0\mathcal{H}^{n-1}(\Sigma)=0 when p=p=\infty, then we prove that the ADM mass of each end is nonnegative. Furthermore, if the ADM mass of some end is zero, then we prove that (Mn,g)(M^n,g) is isometric to the Euclidean space by showing the manifold has nonnegative Ricci curvature in RCD sense. This extends the result of [Lee-LeFloch2015] from spin to non-spin, also improves the result of [Shi-Tam2018] and [Lee2013]. Moreover, for p=p=\infty, this confirms a conjecture of Lee [Lee2013].

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@article{arxiv.2012.14041,
  title  = {Removable singularity of positive mass theorem with continuous metrics},
  author = {Wenshuai Jiang and Weimin Sheng and Huaiyu Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.14041},
  year   = {2020}
}

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35 pages

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