The Spacetime Positive Mass Theorem with Multiple Time Dimensions
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2026-03-10 v2 Analysis of PDEs
Differential Geometry
Abstract
We generalize the spacetime positive mass theorem to include multiple time dimensions. In particular, we show that the mass remains nonnegative in the sense that the energy is bounded from below by the trace norm of the linear momenta . Equality in this energy inequality implies a foliation by flat submanifolds of a generalized initial data set. Moreover, under an additional umbilicity assumption, we find that the initial data set isometrically embeds into a generalized pp-wave.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.20081,
title = {The Spacetime Positive Mass Theorem with Multiple Time Dimensions},
author = {Sven Hirsch and Alec Payne and Yiyue Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20081},
year = {2026}
}