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Yamabe flow and ADM Mass on asymptotically flat manifolds

Differential Geometry 2012-10-19 v3 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the behavior of ADM mass and Einstein-Hilbert functional under the Yamabe flow. Through studying the Yamabe flow by weighted spaces, we show that ADM mass and Einstein-Hilbert functional are well-defined and monotone non-increasing under the Yamabe flow on nn-dimensional, n3n\geq 3, asymptotically flat manifolds. In the case of dimension n=3n=3 or 4, we obtain that the ADM mass is invariant under the Yamabe flow and the Yamabe flow is the gradient flow of Einstein-Hilbert functional on asymptotically flat manifolds

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@article{arxiv.1109.2443,
  title  = {Yamabe flow and ADM Mass on asymptotically flat manifolds},
  author = {Liang Cheng and Anqiang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.2443},
  year   = {2012}
}