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Birkhoff's theorem is a classic result that characterizes locally spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations. In this paper, we illustrate the consequences of its local nature for the cases of vacuum and positive cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Kristin Schleich , Donald M. Witt

We show that the borderline cases in the proof of the positive energy theorem for initial data sets, on spin manifolds, in dimensions $n\ge 3$, are only possible for initial data arising from embeddings in Minkowski space-time.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Piotr T. Chrusciel , Daniel Maerten

We establish sufficient conditions for the appearance of apparent horizons in spherically symmetric initial data when spacetime is foliated extrinsically. Let $M$ and $P$ be respectively the total material energy and the total material…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Jemal Guven , Niall O Murchadha

We establish a type of positive energy theorem for asymptotically anti-de Sitter Einstein-Maxwell initial data sets by using Witten's spinoral techniques.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Yaohua Wang , Xu Xu

To make sense of a global space-time model and to give a meaning to the coordinates that we use, a choice of a constant curvature space-metric of reference it is as much necessary as it is a choice of units of mass, length and time. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-29 Ll. Bel

We establish the charged Penrose inequality for time symmetric initial data sets having an outermost minimal surface boundary and finitely many asymptotically cylindrical ends, with an appropriate rigidity statement. This is accomplished by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Jaroslaw Jaracz

We give a definition of mass for conformally compactifiable initial data sets. The asymptotic conditions are compatible with existence of gravitational radiation, and the compactifications are allowed to be polyhomogeneous. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. T. Chrusciel , J. Jezierski , S. Leski

We prove a positive volume theorem for asymptotically AdS spacetimes: the maximal volume slice has nonnegative vacuum-subtracted volume, and the vacuum-subtracted volume vanishes if and only if the spacetime is identically pure AdS. Under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-13 Netta Engelhardt , Åsmund Folkestad

In this paper, we prove Lorentzian positive mass theorem for spacetimes with distributional curvature. To do so, we introduce distributional curvature and generalized Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) momentum. As an application, we discuss a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-02 Keigo Shibuya

Energy conditions are attempts to summarise the properties of realistic descriptions of matter via constraints on the energy-momentum tensor. This is, for example, useful when one wants to understand the types of spacetime geometry that can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Hidde Stoffels

We observe that an analogue of the Positive Mass Theorem in the time-symmetric case for three-space-time-dimensional general relativity follows trivially from the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. In this case we also have that the spatial slice is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-02 Willie Wai-Yeung Wong

Temporal correlations in the KPZ universality class have gained significant attention, following the conjectures in [Ferr-Spoh'16]. Building on prior work in the zero temperature setting [Basu-Gang-Zhan'21], we address the time correlation…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Xiao Shen

This work considers positive energy theorems in asymptotically, locally AdS spacetimes. Particular attention is given to spacetimes where conformal infinity has compact, Einstein cross-sections admitting Killing or parallel spinors; a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Virinchi Rallabhandi

We generalize in this paper a theorem of Titchmarsh for the positivity of Fourier sine integrals. We apply then the theorem to derive simple conditions for the absence of positive energy bound states (bound states embedded in the continuum)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Khosrow Chadan , Reido Kobayashi

Spacetime is foliated by spatial hypersurfaces in the 3+1 split of General Relativity. The initial value problem then consists of specifying initial data for all relevant fields on one such a spatial hypersurface. These fields are the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-04 Wolfgang Tichy

In this paper, we introduce a new family of mass-type invariants for time-symmetric initial data in space-times satisfying the Dominant Energy Condition. For positive cosmological constant, these invariants, unlike the total Hawking mass,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Virginia Agostiniani , Stefano Borghini , Lorenzo Mazzieri

Penrose's original heuristic for his eponymous spacetime inequality -- a conjectured lower bound on the ADM mass in terms of the area of a horizon cross-section -- relies on the black hole final state conjecture. In this paper we isolate a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Ahmed Ellithy

In previous works, we showed that both time and space can emerge from entanglement within a globally constrained quantum Universe, with no background coordinates. By extending the Page and Wootters quantum time formalism to include both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Tommaso Favalli

Positivity bounds - the consequences of requiring a unitary, causal, local UV completion - place strong restrictions on theories of dark energy and/or modified gravity. We derive and investigate such bounds for Horndeski scalar-tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 Scott Melville , Johannes Noller

We find two conditions related to the {\it news functions} of the Bondi's radiating vacuum spacetimes. We provide a complete proof of the positivity of the Bondi mass by using Schoen-Yau's method under one condition and by using Witten's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-12 Wen-ling Huang , Shing Tung Yau , Xiao Zhang