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We define a generalized mass for asymptotically flat manifolds using some higher order symmetric function of the curvature tensor. This mass is non-negative when the manifold is locally conformally flat and the $\sigma_k$ curvature vanishes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-14 YanYan Li , Luc Nguyen

We prove a positive mass theorem for spin initial data sets $(M,g,k)$ that contain an asymptotically flat end and a shield of dominant energy (a subset of $M$ on which the dominant energy scalar $\mu-|J|$ has a positive lower bound). In a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Simone Cecchini , Martin Lesourd , Rudolf Zeidler

We prove that the positive mass theorem applies to Lipschitz metrics as long as the singular set is low-dimensional, with no other conditions on the singular set. More precisely, let $g$ be an asymptotically flat Lipschitz metric on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Dan A. Lee

We prove a Riemannian positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat spin manifolds with hypersurface singularities. Unlike earlier results, some components of the singular set may be mean-concave, provided that other components of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Georg Frenck , Bernhard Hanke , Sven Hirsch

There has been a lot of interests in Positive Mass Theorems for singular metrics on smooth manifolds. We prove a positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat (AF) spin manifolds with isolated conical singularities or more generally horn…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Xianzhe Dai , Yukai Sun , Changliang Wang

We prove positive mass theorems for asymptotically hyperbolic and asymptotically locally hyperbolic Riemannian manifolds with black-hole-type boundaries.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Piotr T. Chruściel , Gregory J. Galloway

In this paper we consider the positive mass theorem for general initial data sets satisfying the dominant energy condition which are singular across a piecewise smooth surface. We find jump conditions on the metric and second fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Tin-Yau Tsang

We describe explicitly the large volume isoperimetric regions of a natural class of asymptotically flat manifolds, in any dimension. These isoperimetric regions detect the mass and the center of mass of such manifolds when viewed as initial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Michael Eichmair , Jan Metzger

We extend the validity of Brill's axisymmetric positive energy theorem to all asymptotically flat initial data sets with positive scalar curvature on simply connected manifolds.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Piotr T. Chrusciel

We study connections among the ADM mass, positive harmonic functions tending to zero at infinity, and the capacity of the boundary of asymptotically flat $3$-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. First we give new formulae that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Pengzi Miao

Away from the central axis, we prove the stability of the Positive Mass Theorem in the $W^{1,p}$ sense for asymptotically flat axisymmetric manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature satisfying some additional technical assumptions. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Edward T. Bryden

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

We showed a positive energy theorem for asymptotically flat initial data sets with the concept of spectral PSC by He-Shi-Yu, Bi-Hao-He-Shi-Zhu and Brendle-Wang; and the Jang equation in Schoen-Yau, Eichmair and Jang. Then, we proved a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Tin-Yau Tsang

In this short paper, we review recent progress on the positive mass theorem for spacelike hypersurfaces which approach to null infinity in asymptotically flat spacetimes. We use it to prove, if the functions $c(u, \theta, \psi)$, $d(u,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiao Zhang

As an interesting application of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory and our work on the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern mass (Ge, Wang, Wu), we obtain a positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat graphs in $\R^{n+1}$ under a condition that $R+\alpha…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Yuxin Ge , Guofang Wang , Jie Wu

In this paper, we investigate the weighted mass for weighted manifolds. By establishing a version of density theorem and generalizing Geroch conjecture in the setting of $P$-scalar curvature, we are able to prove the positive weighted mass…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Jianchun Chu , Jintian Zhu

We study the stability of the Positive Mass Theorem using the Intrinsic Flat Distance. In particular we consider the class of complete asymptotically flat rotationally symmetric Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and no…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Dan A. Lee , Christina Sormani

The positive mass theorem states that the total mass of a complete asymptotically flat manifold with non-negative scalar curvature is non-negative; moreover, the total mass equals zero if and only if the manifold is isometric to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco

The rigidity of the Positive Mass Theorem states that the only complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature and zero mass is Euclidean space. We study the stability of this statement for spaces that can be realized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Dan A. Lee , Christina Sormani

In this paper, we want to prove positive mass theorems for ALF and ALG manifolds with model spaces $\mathbb R^{n-1}\times \mathbb S^1$ and $\mathbb R^{n-2}\times \mathbb T^2$ respectively in dimensions no greater than $7$ (Theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Peng Liu , Yuguang Shi , Jintian Zhu