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We prove a positive mass theorem for $n$-dimensional asymptotically flat manifolds with a non-compact boundary if either $3\leq n\leq 7$ or if $n\geq 3$ and the manifold is spin. This settles, for this class of manifolds, a question posed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Sergio Almaraz , Ezequiel Barbosa , Levi Lopes de Lima

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 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

In this paper, we study the boundary behaviors of compact manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and with nonempty boundary. Using a general version of Positive Mass Theorem of Schoen-Yau and Witten, we prove the following theorem: For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuguang Shi , Luen-fai Tam

In 1981, Schoen-Yau and Witten showed that in General Relativity both the total energy $E$ and the total mass $m$ of an initial data set modeling an isolated gravitational system are non-negative. Moreover, if $E=0$, the initial data set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-24 Sven Hirsch , Yiyue Zhang

We prove a Riemannian positive mass theorem for manifolds with a single asymptotically flat end, but otherwise arbitrary other ends, which can be incomplete and contain negative scalar curvature. The incompleteness and negativity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Martin Lesourd , Ryan Unger , Shing-Tung Yau

The positive energy theorem for weighted asymptotically flat spin manifolds was proved by Baldauf and Ozuch \cite{BO}, and for non-spin case by Chu and Zhu \cite{CZh}. In this paper, we generalize the positive energy theorem for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Yaohua Wang , Xiao Zhang

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

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

We prove that the positive mass theorem applies to Lipschitz metrics as long as the singular set is low-dimensional, with no other conditions on the singular set. More precisely, let $g$ be an asymptotically flat Lipschitz metric on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Dan A. Lee

We formulate and prove a positive mass theorem for n-dimensional spin manifolds whose metrics have only the Sobolev regularity $C^0 \cap W^{1,n}$. At this level of regularity, the curvature of the metric is defined in the distributional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Dan A. Lee , Philippe G. LeFloch

On a smooth asymptotically flat Riemannian manifold with non-compact boundary, we prove a positive mass theorem for metrics which are only continuous across a compact hypersurface. As an application, we obtain a positive mass theorem on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

We extend Witten's spinor proof of the positive mass theorem to large classes of complete asymptotically flat non-spin manifolds, including all manifolds of dimension less than or equal to 11 and all manifolds of dimension less than 26…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anda Degeratu , Mark Stern

In this paper we consider the positive mass theorem for general initial data sets satisfying the dominant energy condition which are singular across a piecewise smooth surface. We find jump conditions on the metric and second fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Tin-Yau Tsang

In this article, we give a proof for positive mass theorem of asymptotically flat manifolds with arbitrary ends when the dimension is no greater than seven. As an application, we also show a positive mass theorem for asymptotically locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Jintian Zhu

In this article, we revisit the initial data rigidity theorem of Eichmair, Galloway and Mendes (arxiv:2009.09527). The goal is to strengthen their result by showing that the initial data sets concerned carry a vector field that is lightlike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Jonathan Glöckle

The rigidity of the spacetime positive mass theorem states that an initial data set $(M,g,k)$ satisfying the dominant energy condition with vanishing mass can be isometrically embedded into Minkowski space. This has been established by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Sven Hirsch , Yiyue Zhang

We single out a notion of staticity which applies to any domain in hyperbolic space whose boundary is a non-compact totally umbilical hypersurface. For (time-symmetric) initial data sets modeled at infinity on any of these latter examples,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Sergio Almaraz , Levi Lopes de Lima

We establish the positive energy theorem and a Penrose-type inequality for 3-dimensional asymptotically hyperboloidal initial data sets with toroidal infinity, weakly trapped boundary, and satisfying the dominant energy condition. In the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Aghil Alaee , Pei-Ken Hung , Marcus Khuri

We establish the positive energy theorem for weak asymptotically anti-de Sitter initial data sets with distributional curvature under the weak dominant energy condition.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-13 Yaohua Wang , Xiao Zhang