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Using Liu's modular invariance method and its odd-dimensional extension by Han and Yu, we establish new Witten rigidity theorems for the generalized Witten genus of twisted Dirac operators on even-dimensional spin$^c$ manifolds and twisted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Jianyun Guan , Kefeng Liu , Yong Wang

We classify spin ALE ancient Ricci flows and spin ALE expanding solitons with suitable groups at infinity. In particular, the only spin ancient Ricci flows with groups at infinity in $SU(2)$ and mild decay at infinity are hyperk\"ahler ALE…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Isaac M. Lopez , Tristan Ozuch

We give an application of a Huisken monotonicity-type formula for the mean curvature flow in a compact smooth manifold with a Riemannian metric that evolves by a shrinking self-similar solution of the extended Ricci flow. Our investigation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Hikaru Yamamoto

By a theorem of Mclean, the deformation space of an associative submanifold Y of an integrable G_2 manifold (M,\phi) can be identified with the kernel of a Dirac operator D:\Omega^{0}(\nu) -->\Omega^{0}(\nu) on the normal bundle \nu of Y.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-08-20 Selman Akbulut , Sema Salur

The Witten spinorial argument has been adapted in several works over the years to prove positivity of mass in the asymptotically AdS and asymptotically hyperbolic settings in arbitrary dimensions. In this paper we prove a scalar curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Lars Andersson , Mingliang Cai , Gregory J. Galloway

We analyze the level sets of the norm of the Witten spinor in an asymptotically flat Riemannian spin manifold of positive scalar curvature. Level sets of small area are constructed. We prove curvature estimates which quantify that, if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster

In this article, we introduce a mass-decreasing flow for asymptotically flat three-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. This flow is defined by iterating a suitable Ricci flow with surgery and conformal rescalings and has a number…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Robert Haslhofer

In this paper, it is elaborated the theory the Ricci flows for manifolds enabled with nonintegrable (nonholonomic) distributions defining nonlinear connection structures. Such manifolds provide a unified geometric arena for nonholonomic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We establish a weighted positive mass theorem which unifies and generalizes results of Baldauf--Ozuch and Chu--Zhu. Our result is in fact equivalent to the usual positive mass theorem, and can be regarded as a positive mass theorem for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Michael B. Law , Isaac M. Lopez , Daniel Santiago

We prove directly without using a density theorem that (i) the ADM mass defined in the usual way on an asymptotically flat manifold is equal to the mass defined intrinsically using Ricci tensor; (ii) the Hamiltonian formulation of center of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Pengzi Miao , Luen-Fai Tam

A spinor derivation is presented for quasilocal mean-curvature mass of spacelike 2-surfaces in General Relativity. The derivation is based on the Sen-Witten spinor identity and involves the introduction of novel nonlinear boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Stephen C. Anco

We provide estimates on the Bartnik mass of constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces which are diffeomorphic to spheres and have positive mean curvature. We prove that the Bartnik mass is bounded from above by the Hawking mass and a new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Chen-Yun Lin , Christina Sormani

A formula is given in terms of secondary characteristic classes for the leading order contribution to the spectral flow for a path of twisted Dirac operators on an odd dimensional, Riemannian manifold when the twisting is done by a path of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Clifford Henry Taubes

We consider a Riemannian spin manifold (M,g) with a fixed spin structure. The zero sets of solutions of generalized Dirac equations on M play an important role in some questions arising in conformal spin geometry and in mathematical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-08 Andreas Hermann

We prove that the mass endomorphism associated to the Dirac operator on a Riemannian manifold is non-zero for generic Riemannian metrics. The proof involves a study of the mass endomorphism under surgery, its behavior near metrics with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Bernd Ammann , Mattias Dahl , Andreas Hermann , Emmanuel Humbert

We derive a weighted $L^2$-estimate of the Witten spinor in a complete Riemannian spin manifold $(M^n,g)$ of non-negative scalar curvature which is asymptotically Schwarzschild. The interior geometry of $M$ enters this estimate only via the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster , Margarita Kraus

In this note we study conformal Ricci flow introduced by Arthur Fischer. We use DeTurck's trick to rewrite conformal Ricci flow as a strong parabolic-elliptic partial differential equations. Then we prove short time existences for conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Peng Lu , Jie Qing , Yu Zheng

We prove the positive mass theorem for manifolds with distributional curvature which have been studied in \cite{Lee2015} without spin condition. In our case, the manifold $M$ has asymptotically flat metric $g\in C^0\bigcap W^{1,p}_{-q}$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Yuqiao Li

In the first part of this short article, we define a renormalized F-functional for perturbations of non-compact steady Ricci solitons. This functional motivates a stability inequality which plays an important role in questions concerning…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-25 Robert Haslhofer

We review recent results relating linear stability to dynamical stability and the scalar curvature rigidity of Einstein manifolds. We discuss closed and open Einstein manifolds as well as complete noncompact Einstein manifolds which are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Klaus Kroencke