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We characterize the null energy condition for an $(n+1)$-dimensional Lorentzian manifold in terms of convexity of the relative $(n-1)$-Renyi entropy along displacement interpolations on null hypersurfaces. More generally, we also consider…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Christian Ketterer

In axially symmetric spacetimes the Penrose inequality can be strengthened to include angular momentum. We prove a version of this inequality for minimal surfaces, more precisely, a lower bound for the ADM mass in terms of the area of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-26 Pablo Anglada

We prove the equality case of the Penrose inequality in all dimensions for asymptotically flat hypersurfaces. It was recently proven by G. Lam that the Penrose inequality holds for asymptotically flat graphical hypersurfaces in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-03 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Damin Wu

In recent work, the notion of Double Convexity for a foliation of a conical null hypersurface was introduced to give a proof, if satisfied, of the Null Penrose Inequality. Double Convexity constrains the geometry of a Marginally Outer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-07 Henri Roesch

We establish a Penrose-Like Inequality for general (not necessarily time symmetric) initial data sets of the Einstein equations which satisfy the dominant energy condition. More precisely, it is shown that the ADM energy is bounded below by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-14 Marcus A. Khuri

We introduce a generalized version of the Jang equation, designed for the general case of the Penrose Inequality in the setting of an asymptotically flat space-like hypersurface of a spacetime satisfying the dominat energy condition. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Hubert L. Bray , Marcus A. Khuri

A universal geometric inequality for bodies relating energy, size, angular momentum, and charge is naturally implied by Bekenstein's entropy bounds. We establish versions of this inequality for axisymmetric bodies satisfying appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Jaroslaw S. Jaracz , Marcus A. Khuri

We provide a new proof of the Riemannian Penrose inequality for time-symmetric asymptotically flat initial data with a single black-hole horizon. The proof proceeds through a newly established monotonicity formula holding along the level…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Virginia Agostiniani , Carlo Mantegazza , Lorenzo Mazzieri , Francesca Oronzio

This paper develops a synthetic framework for the geometric and analytic study of null (lightlike) hypersurfaces in non-smooth spacetimes. Drawing from optimal transport and recent advances in Lorentzian geometry and causality theory, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Fabio Cavalletti , Davide Manini , Andrea Mondino

We formulate and prove a toy version of the Penrose inequality. The formulation mimics the original Penrose inequality in which the scenario is the following: A shell of null dust collapses in Minkowski space and a marginally trapped…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-09 Ingemar Bengtsson , Emma Jakobsson

We study the physics of photon rings in a wide range of axisymmetric black holes admitting a separable Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the geodesics. Utilizing the Killing-Yano tensor, we derive the Penrose limit of the black holes, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 D. Giataganas , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

We establish a lower bound on the total mass of the time slices of (n + 1)-dimensional asymptotically flat standard static spacetimes under the timelike convergence condition. The inequality can be viewed equivalently as a Minkowski-type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Brian Harvie

In this thesis we describe how minimal surface techniques can be used to prove the Penrose inequality in general relativity for two classes of 3-manifolds. We also describe how a new volume comparison theorem involving scalar curvature for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-20 Hubert L. Bray

In 1973, R. Penrose presented an argument that the total mass of a space-time which contains black holes with event horizons of total area $A$ should be at least $\sqrt{A/16\pi}$. An important special case of this physical statement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hubert L. Bray , Piotr T. Chrusciel

In this short paper, Penrose's famous singularity theorem is applied to the Kerr space-time. In the case of the maximally extended space-time, the assumptions of Penrose's singularity theorem are not satisfied as the space-time is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Jonathan Brook , Chris Stevens

Riemannian Penrose Inequalities are precise geometric statements that imply that the total mass of a zero second fundamental form slice of a spacetime is at least the mass contributed by the black holes, assuming that the spacetime has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Hubert Bray , Yiyue Zhang

We carry out model independent analyses for global structures of spherically symmetric regular black holes that evaporate and approach the extremal state spending infinite periods of time due to Hawking radiation. We assume the radius of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Kensuke Sueto , Hirotaka Yoshino

The Positive Mass Theorem states that a complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature has nonnegative mass. The Riemannian Penrose inequality provides a sharp lower bound for the mass when black holes are present.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Hubert L. Bray , Dan A. Lee

In this work, we prove an optimal Penrose inequality for asymptotically locally hyperbolic manifolds which can be realized as graphs over Kottler space. Such inequality relies heavily on an optimal weighted Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Yuxin Ge , Guofang Wang , Jie Wu , Chao Xia

We establish a Penrose-type inequality with angular momenta for four dimensional, biaxially symmetric, maximal, asymptotically flat initial data sets $(M,g,k)$ for the Einstein equations with fixed angular momenta and horizon inner boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-07 Aghil Alaee , Hari K. Kunduri