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The Positive Mass Theorem with Arbitrary Ends

Differential Geometry 2021-03-05 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We prove a Riemannian positive mass theorem for manifolds with a single asymptotically flat end, but otherwise arbitrary other ends, which can be incomplete and contain negative scalar curvature. The incompleteness and negativity is compensated for by large positive scalar curvature on an annulus, in a quantitative fashion. In the complete noncompact case with nonnegative scalar curvature, we have no extra assumption and hence prove a long-standing conjecture of Schoen and Yau.

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@article{arxiv.2103.02744,
  title  = {The Positive Mass Theorem with Arbitrary Ends},
  author = {Martin Lesourd and Ryan Unger and Shing-Tung Yau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02744},
  year   = {2021}
}

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