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This article establishes a low-regularity Riemannian positive mass theorem for non-spin manifolds whose metrics are only $C^0 \cap W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,n}$ and smooth outside a compact set. The main theorem asserts that asymptotically flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Eduardo Hafemann

Motivated by the recent progress on positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat manifolds with arbitrary ends and the Gromov's definition of scalar curvature lower bound for continuous metrics, we start a program on the positive mass…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Jianchun Chu , Man-Chun Lee , Jintian Zhu

This paper contributes to the analysis of the peripheral (point) spectrum of positive linear operators on Banach lattices. We show that, under appropriate growth and regularity conditions, the peripheral point spectrum of a positive…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Jochen Glück

The first representation theorem establishes a correspondence between positive, self-adjoint operators and closed, positive forms on Hilbert spaces. The aim of this paper is to show that some of the results remain true if the underlying…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Balint Farkas , Mate Matolcsi

We prove an existence result for the Poisson equation on non-compact Riemannian manifolds satisfying weighted Poincar\'e inequalities outside compact sets. Our result applies to a large class of manifolds including, for instance, all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Giovanni Catino , Dario Daniele Monticelli , Fabio Punzo

We formulate and prove a positive mass theorem for n-dimensional spin manifolds whose metrics have only the Sobolev regularity $C^0 \cap W^{1,n}$. At this level of regularity, the curvature of the metric is defined in the distributional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Dan A. Lee , Philippe G. LeFloch

Let $\left( \mathcal{M},g\right) $ be a $d$-dimensional compact connected Riemannian manifold and let $\left\{ \varphi_{m}\right\}_{m=0}^{+\infty}$ be a complete sequence of orthonormal eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Luca Brandolini , Bianca Gariboldi , Giacomo Gigante

In this article, we prove an eigenvalue pinching theorem for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on compact hypersurfaces in a sphere. Let $(M^n,g)$ be a closed, connected and oriented Riemannian manifold isometrically immersed by $\phi$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Yingxiang Hu , Hongwei Xu

We prove the positive mass theorem on conical manifold with small cone angle and co-dimensional two singularities under the assumption that the ambient manifold admits a spin structure and locally conformal flat

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Yaoting Gui

A general fixed point theorem for isometries in terms of metric functionals is proved under the assumption of the existence of a conical bicombing. It is new even for isometries of Banach spaces as well as for non-locally compact…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Anders Karlsson

Let P be a second-order, linear, elliptic operator with real coefficients which is defined on a noncompact and connected Riemannian manifold M. It is well known that the equation Pu = 0 in M admits a positive supersolution which is not a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Debdip Ganguly , Yehuda Pinchover

Let $\Sigma$ be a complete Riemannian manifold with the volume doubling property and the uniform Neumann-Poincar$\mathrm{\acute{e}}$ inequality. We show that any positive minimal graphic function on $\Sigma$ is a constant.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Qi Ding

For a given admissible vector field $X$, we define a geometric quantity for asymptotically flat $3$--manifolds, called $X$--ADM mass and we establish a relative positive mass theorem via a monotonicity formula along the level sets of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Carlo Mantegazza , Francesca Oronzio

The Witten spinorial argument has been adapted in several works over the years to prove positivity of mass in the asymptotically AdS and asymptotically hyperbolic settings in arbitrary dimensions. In this paper we prove a scalar curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Lars Andersson , Mingliang Cai , Gregory J. Galloway

A classical theorem in conformal geometry states that on a manifold with non-positive Yamabe invariant, a smooth metric achieving the invariant must be Einstein. In this work, we extend it to the singular case and show that in all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Man-Chun Lee , Luen-Fai Tam

In this paper, we show that for a sequence of orientable complete uniformly asymptotically flat $3$-manifolds $(M_i , g_i)$ with nonnegative scalar curvature and ADM mass $m(g_i)$ tending to zero, by subtracting some open subsets $Z_i$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Conghan Dong

In this paper it is hown that given any smooth, positive function f on a closed, smooth manifold of dimension greater than four and with positive Paneitz invariant, there exists a metric on M such that $Q_g$ = f.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-30 David Raske

We explicitly compute the Green's function of the spinor Klein-Gordon equation on the Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds of the form $M_0 \times ... \times M_N$, with each factor being a space of constant sectional curvature. Our approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Alberto Enciso , Niky Kamran

We give, via elementary methods, explicit formulas for the ADM mass which allow us to conclude the positive mass theorem and Penrose inequality for a class of graphical manifolds which includes, for instance, that ones with flat normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Heudson Mirandola , Feliciano Vitorio

We establish Gromov-Hausdorff stability of the Riemannian positive mass theorem under the assumption of a Ricci curvature lower bound. More precisely, consider a class of orientable complete uniformly asymptotically flat Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Demetre Kazaras , Marcus Khuri , Dan Lee