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In this work, we investigate the geometry and topology of compact Einstein-type manifolds with nonempty boundary. First, we prove a sharp boundary estimate, as consequence we obtain under certain hypotheses that the Hawking mass is bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Maria Andrade , Ana Paula de Melo

The Positive Mass Theorem implies that any smooth, complete, asymptotically flat 3-manifold with non-negative scalar curvature which has zero total mass is isometric to (R^3, delta_{ij}). In this paper, we quantify this statement using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hubert Bray , Felix Finster

Small deformations of marginally (outer) trapped surfaces are considered by using their stability operator. In the case of spherical symmetry, one can use these deformations on any marginally trapped round sphere to prove several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-16 José M. M. Senovilla

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

We give a lower bound for the Lorentz length of the ADM energy-momentum vector (ADM mass) of 3-dimensional asymptotically flat initial data sets for the Einstein equations. The bound is given in terms of linear growth `spacetime harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Sven Hirsch , Demetre Kazaras , Marcus Khuri

We will study the $1$-weighted Ricci curvature in view of the extrinsic geometric analysis. We derive several geometric consequences concerning stable weighted minimal hypersurfaces in weighted manifolds under a lower $1$-weighted Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Yasuaki Fujitani , Yohei Sakurai

Hawking's theorem on the topology of black holes asserts that cross sections of the event horizon in 4-dimensional asymptotically flat stationary black hole spacetimes obeying the dominant energy condition are topologically 2-spheres. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gregory J. Galloway , Richard Schoen

In this article we develope a spinorial proof of the Shi-Tam theorem for the positivity of the Brown-York mass without necessity of building non smooth infinite asymptotically flat hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space and use the positivity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 S. Montiel

The Schouten tensor \ $A$ \ of a Riemannian manifold \ $(M,g)$ provides important scalar curvature invariants $\sigma_k$, that are the symmetric functions on the eigenvalues of $A$, where, in particular, $\sigma_1$ \ coincides with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Boris Botvinnik , Mohammed Labbi

We study topological obstructions to the existence of a Riemannian metric on manifolds with boundary such that the scalar curvature is non-negative and the boundary is mean convex. We construct many compact manifolds with boundary which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Ezequiel Barbosa , Franciele Conrado

Let $(\tilde{\Sigma},h_{ab},K_{ab})$ be an initial data set and let $x^a$ be a symmetry vector of $\tilde{\Sigma}$. Consider a MOTS $\mathcal{S}$ in $\tilde{\Sigma}$ and let the symmetry vector be decomposable along the unit normal to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Abbas M. Sherif

Improving a singularity theorem in General Relativity by Galloway and Ling we show the following (cf.\ Theorem 1): If a globally hyperbolic spacetime $M$ satisfying the null energy condition contains a closed, spacelike Cauchy surface…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Eric Ling , Carl Rossdeutscher , Walter Simon , Roland Steinbauer

We prove that if a family of metrics, $g_i$, on a compact Riemannian manifold, $M^n$, have a uniform lower Ricci curvature bound and converge to $g_\infty$ smoothly away from a singular set, $S$, with Hausdorff measure, $H^{n-1}(S) = 0$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Sajjad Lakzian

For compact submanifolds in Euclidean and Spherical space forms with Ricci curvature bounded below by a function $\alpha(n,k,H,c)$ of mean curvature, we prove that the submanifold is either isometric to the Einstein Clifford torus, or a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Jianquan Ge , Ya Tao , Yi Zhou

Inspired by the study of $V$-static manifold about classification, in this article, we apply the recent results obtained by Freitas and Gomes (Compact gradient Einstein-type manifolds with boundary, 2022) to prove the rigidity results for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Xiaomin Chen

We prove results for free-boundary hypersurfaces in the upper unit hemisphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}_{+}$ of $\mathbb{R}^{n+2}$. First we show that if the norm squared of the second fundamental form is constant, the Morse index of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Crísia Ramos de Oliveira

Let $M$ be a manifold which admits a metric with positive scalar curvature (or a positive intermediate curvature in a suitable sense). We study the moduli space ${\mathscr{M}}^{{\mathsf{pos}}_*}_{\sqcup}(M\times I)_g$ of concordances of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Boris Botvinnik , David J. Wraith

We consider a convex solid cone $\mathcal{C}\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with vertex at the origin and boundary $\partial\mathcal{C}$ smooth away from $0$. Our main result shows that a compact two-sided hypersurface $\Sigma$ immersed in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-14 César Rosales

In this paper we prove the following. Let $\Sigma$ be an $n$--dimensional closed hyperbolic manifold and let $g$ be a Riemannian metric on $\Sigma \times \mathbb{S}^1$. Given an upper bound on the volumes of unit balls in the Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Hannah Alpert , Kei Funano

Given a complete Riemannian metric of nonnegative scalar curvature on $\Sigma \times (-\infty, 0 ] $, where $\Sigma$ denotes a $2$-sphere, we exhibit conditions that imply the existence of a closed minimal surface homologous to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Pengzi Miao , Sehong Park