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We introduce Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on manifolds with Baas-Sullivan singularities, prove a corresponding homology invariance principle and discuss admissible products. Using this theory we construct positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Bernhard Hanke

Inspired by the recent work of Physicists Hertog-Horowitz-Maeda, we prove two stability results for compact Riemannian manifolds with nonzero parallel spinors. Our first result says that Ricci flat metrics which also admits nonzero parallel…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xianzhe Dai , Xiaodong Wang , Guofang Wei

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

We show that an enlargeable Riemannian metric on a (possibly nonspin) manifold cannot have uniformly positive scalar curvature. This extends a well-known result of Gromov and Lawson to the nonspin setting. We also prove that every…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Simone Cecchini , Thomas Schick

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 prove some rigidity results for compact manifolds with boundary. In particular for a compact Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and simply connected mean convex boundary, it is shown that if the sectional curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fengbo Hang , Xiaodong Wang

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 prove a corresponding stability theorem for spaces that can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Dan A. Lee

We study rigidity problems for Riemannian and semi-Riemannian manifolds with metrics of low regularity. Specifically, we prove a version of the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem \cite{CheegerGromoll72splitting} for Riemannian metrics and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Michael Kunzinger , Argam Ohanyan , Alessio Vardabasso

We prove a scalar-mean rigidity theorem for compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary in dimension less than five by developing a dimension reduction argument for mean curvature, which extends Schoen-Yau's dimension reduction argument for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Jinmin Wang , Zhichao Wang , Bo Zhu

We show a closed Bach-flat Riemannian manifold with a fixed positive constant scalar curvature has to be locally spherical if its Weyl and traceless Ricci tensors are small in the sense of either $L^\infty$ or $L^{\frac{n}{2}}$-norm.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Yi Fang , Wei Yuan

We derive an explicit formula for the ADM mass of asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) almost K\"ahler manifolds. The formula expresses the mass in terms of the total Hermitian scalar curvature and topological data associated with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Partha Ghosh

We define the "sum of squares of the wavelengths" of a Riemannian surface (M,g) to be the regularized trace of the inverse of the Laplacian. We normalize by scaling and adding a constant, to obtain a "mass", which is scale invariant and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Kate Okikiolu

We study a class of non-smooth asymptotically flat manifolds on which metrics fails to be $C^1$ across a hypersurface $\Sigma$. We first give an approximation scheme to mollify the metric, then we prove that the Positive Mass Theorem still…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Pengzi Miao

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

An explicit lower bound for the mass of an asymptotically flat Riemannian 3-manifold is given in terms of linear growth harmonic functions and scalar curvature. As a consequence, a new proof of the positive mass theorem is achieved in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Hubert L. Bray , Demetre P. Kazaras , Marcus A. Khuri , Daniel L. Stern

In this paper, without assuming that manifolds are spin, we prove that if a compact orientable, and connected Riemannian manifold $(M^{n},g)$ with scalar curvature $R_{g}\geq 6$ admits a non-zero degree and $1$-Lipschitz map to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Tianze Hao , Yuguang Shi , Yukai Sun

The positive mass theorem states that the total mass of a complete asymptotically flat manifold with non-negative scalar curvature is non-negative; moreover, the total mass equals zero if and only if the manifold is isometric to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco

We prove a positive mass theorem for some noncompact spin manifolds that are asymptotic to products of hyperbolic space with a compact manifold. As conclusion we show the Yamabe inequality for some noncompact manifolds which are important…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-19 Bernd Ammann , Nadine Große

Some new differentiable sphere theorems are obtained via the Ricci flow and stable currents. We prove that if $M^n$ is a compact manifold whose normalized scalar curvature and sectional curvature satisfy the pointwise pinching condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-14 Juan-Ru Gu , Hong-Wei Xu

We show the smoothness of weakly Dirac-harmonic maps from a closed spin Riemann surface into stationary Lorentzian manifolds, and obtain a regularity theorem for a class of critical elliptic systems without anti-symmetry structures.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Wanjun Ai , Miaomiao Zhu