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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…

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We obtain an integral inequality for asymptotically linear harmonic functions on asymptotically flat 3-manifolds with noncompact boundary, which implies positivity of a convex combination of ADM masses of two conformally related metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Alex Freire , Mohammad Tariquel Islam

Built on a recent work of Almaraz, Barbosa, de Lima on positive mass theorems on asymptotically flat manifods with a noncompact boundary, we apply free boundary minimal surface techniques to prove their positive mass theorem and study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Xiaoxiang Chai

Motivated by the cosmic censorship conjecture in mathematical relativity, we establish the precise mass lower bound for an asymptotically flat Riemannian 3-manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature and minimal surface boundary, in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-26 Edward T. Bryden , Marcus A. Khuri , Benjamin D. Sokolowsky

In this paper, we prove the spacetime positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat spin initial data sets with arbitrary ends and a non-compact boundary. Moreover, we demonstrate a quantitative shielding theorem, subject to the tilted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-28 Daoqiang Liu

We give, via elementary methods, explicit formulas for the ADM mass which allow us to conclude the positive mass theorem and Penrose inequality for a class of graphical manifolds which includes, for instance, that ones with flat normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Heudson Mirandola , Feliciano Vitorio

We extend the validity of Brill's axisymmetric positive energy theorem to all asymptotically flat initial data sets with positive scalar curvature on simply connected manifolds.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Piotr T. Chrusciel

We study connections among the ADM mass, positive harmonic functions tending to zero at infinity, and the capacity of the boundary of asymptotically flat $3$-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. First we give new formulae that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Pengzi Miao

This paper deals with quasi-local isoperimetric versions of the positive mass theorem on $3$-manifolds endowed with continuous complete metrics having nonnegative scalar curvature in a suitable weak sense. As a corollary, we derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Gioacchino Antonelli , Mattia Fogagnolo , Stefano Nardulli , Marco Pozzetta

In this paper, we consider asymptotically flat Riemannnian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with $C^0$ metric $g$ and $g$ is smooth away from a closed bounded subset $\Sigma$ and the scalar curvature $R_g\ge 0$ on $M\setminus \Sigma$. For given $n\le…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Wenshuai Jiang , Weimin Sheng , Huaiyu Zhang

The rigidity of the Riemannian positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds states that the total mass of such a manifold is zero if and only if the manifold is isometric to the hyperbolic space. This leads to study the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco , Melanie Graf , Raquel Perales

We derive the Riemannian Positive Mass theorem in arbitrary dimensions, without any topological constraints. The main new tools are skin structures and surgeries on minimal hypersurfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-23 J. Lohkamp

We prove a Riemannian positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat spin manifolds with hypersurface singularities. Unlike earlier results, some components of the singular set may be mean-concave, provided that other components of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Georg Frenck , Bernhard Hanke , Sven Hirsch

The rigidity statement of the positive mass theorem asserts that an asymptotically flat initial data set for the Einstein equations with zero ADM mass, and satisfying the dominant energy condition, must arise from an embedding into…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Edward Bryden , Marcus Khuri , Christina Sormani

Asymptotically flat static causal fermion systems are introduced. Their total mass is defined as a limit of surface layer integrals which compare the measures describing the asymptotically flat spacetime and a vacuum spacetime near spatial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Felix Finster , Andreas Platzer

We use planar coordinates as well as hyperbolic coordinates to separate the de Sitter spacetime into two parts. These two ways of cutting the de Sitter give rise to two different spatial infinities. For spacetimes which are asymptotic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-09 Mingxing Luo , Naqing Xie , Xiao Zhang

Using the recent work of Brendle--Wang on the Riemannian positive mass theorem, we prove the spacetime positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat and asymptotically hyperboloidal initial data sets in arbitrary dimensions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Sven Hirsch , Marcus Khuri , Martin Lesourd , Yiyue Zhang

Within the general class of Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter spacetimes that are asymptotic to the A-de-S Schwarzschild metric, we give a simple positive mass theorem based on arguments from causal structure. A general result for all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Woolgar

Motivated by Witten's spinor proof of the positive mass theorem, we analyze asymptotically constant harmonic spinors on complete asymptotically flat nonspin manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Anda Degeratu , Mark Stern

We prove the existence of foliations by area-minimizing hypersurfaces in asymptotically flat (AF) manifolds with arbitrary dimension and arbitrary ends. Also we provide behaviors of those hypersurfaces near the infinity of AF ends and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Shihang He , Yuguang Shi , Haobin Yu