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Let (M,g) be a complete 3-dimensional asymptotically flat manifold with everywhere positive scalar curvature. We prove that, given a compact subset K of M, all volume preserving stable constant mean curvature surfaces of sufficiently large…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-18 Michael Eichmair , Jan Metzger

We provide a quantization of the Schwarzschild spacetime in the presence of a cosmological constant, based on midisuperspace methods developed in the spherically symmetric sector of loop quantum gravity, using in particular the 'improved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Esteban Mato , Javier Olmedo , Sahil Saini

Let $g$ be a metric on the $2$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^2$ with positive Gaussian curvature and $H$ be a positive constant. Under suitable conditions on $(g, H)$, we construct smooth, asymptotically flat $3$-manifolds $M$ with non-negative scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco , Carla Cederbaum , Stephen McCormick , Pengzi Miao

In this work we study spacelike hypersurfaces immersed in spatially open standard static spacetimes with complete spacelike slices. Under appropriate lower bounds on the Ricci curvature of the spacetime in directions tangent to the slices,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Giulio Colombo , José A. S. Pelegrín , Marco Rigoli

The paper establishes a sharp and rigid isoperimetric-type inequality in Lorentzian signature under the assumption of Ricci curvature bounded below in the timelike directions. The inequality is proved in the high generality of Lorentzian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

The classical result of Cauchy's surface area formula states that the surface area of the boundary $\partial K=\Sigma$ of any $n$-dimensional convex body in the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be obtained by the average…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Yen-Chang Huang

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 prove a corresponding stability theorem for spaces that can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Dan A. Lee

We study scalar curvature deformation for asymptotically locally hyperbolic (ALH) manifolds with nonempty compact boundary. We show that the scalar curvature map is locally surjective among either (1) the space of metrics that coincide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Hyun Chul Jang

We identify a condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in a spacetime that is relevant to understanding the concept of mass in general relativity. We prove a formula for the variation of the spacetime Hawking mass under a uniformly area expanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Hubert L. Bray , Jeffrey L. Jauregui

This note concerns the area growth and bottom spectrum of complete stable minimal surfaces in a three-dimensional manifold with scalar curvature bounded from below. When the ambient manifold is the Euclidean space, by an elementary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Ovidiu Munteanu , Chiung-Jue Anna Sung , Jiaping Wang

The Minkowski inequality is a classical inequality in differential geometry, giving a bound from below, on the total mean curvature of a convex surface in Euclidean space, in terms of its area. Recently there has been interest in proving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Stephen McCormick

The classical Minkowski inequality in the Euclidean space provides a lower bound on the total mean curvature of a hypersurface in terms of the surface area, which is optimal on round spheres. In this paper we employ a locally constrained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Julian Scheuer

We prove rigidity results involving the Hawking mass for surfaces immersed in a $3$-dimensional, complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with non-negative scalar curvature (resp. with scalar curvature bounded below by $-6$). Roughly, the main…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Andrea Mondino , Aidan Templeton-Browne

We consider the long-time behaviour of the mean curvature flow of spacelike hypersurfaces in the Lorentzian product manifold $M\times\mathbb{R}$, where $M$ is asymptotically flat. If the initial hypersurface $F_0\subset M\times\mathbb{R}$…

Bounds for the area of general closed marginally trapped surfaces (MTSs) are presented. They do not require any stability condition, and are determined by a constant that depends on a particular component of the Einstein tensor on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 José M. M. Senovilla

This article concerns a natural generalization of the classical asymptotic Plateau problem in hyperbolic space. We prove the existence of a smooth complete hypersurface of constant scalar curvature with a prescribed asymptotic boundary at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Bin Wang

We consider the spacetime presented by Bonnor \cite{Bonnor98}, whose matter content is a spheroid of electrically counterpoised dust, in the context of the geometrical inequalities between area and charge. We determine numerically the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Andrés Aceña

We prove some sharp isoperimetric type inequalities for domains with smooth boundary on Riemannian manifolds. For example, using generalized convexity, we show that among all domains with a lower bound $l$ for the cut distance and Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Kwok-Kun Kwong

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

For appropriately values of $H$, we obtain an area estimate for a complete non-compact $H$-surface of finite topology and finite area, embedded in a three-manifold of negative curvature. Moreover, in the case of equality and under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-29 Vanderson Lima