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We derive the Space-Time Positive Mass theorem in arbitrary dimensions, without topological constraints. The main new tools are skin structures and surgeries on minimal and marginally outer trapped hypersurfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-11 J. Lohkamp

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact conformally flat manifold of dimension $n\geq4$ with positive scalar curvature. According to a positive mass theorem by Schoen and Yau, the constant term in the development of the Green function of the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-21 Pierre Jammes

We describe a positive energy theorem for Einstein gravity coupled to scalar fields with first-derivative interactions, so-called P(X,phi) theories. We offer two independent derivations of this result. The first method introduces an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Benjamin Elder , Austin Joyce , Justin Khoury , Andrew J. Tolley

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

In this paper, we prove the Riemannian positive mass theorem up to dimension $19$, building on a combination of torical symmetrization and the singularity blow-up technique developed in [HSY26], together with the generic regularity theory…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Yuchen Bi , Tianze Hao , Shihang He , Yuguang Shi , Jintian Zhu

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

The purpose of this letter is to point out an argument which may ultimately lead to a rigorous proof of the Penrose inequality in the general case. The argument is a variation of Geroch's original proposal for a proof of the positive energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J Frauendiener

In this work we present a constructive proof that pure SU(3) Yang-Mills theory on R^4 exists as a nontrivial Wightman quantum field theory and exhibits a strictly positive mass gap. Our approach embeds the four-dimensional gauge theory as…

General Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 D. C. Jacobsen

We prove a positive mass theorem for continuous Riemannian metrics in the Sobolev space $W^{2, n/2}_{\mathrm{loc}}(M)$. We argue that this is the largest class of metrics with scalar curvature a positive a.c. measure for which the positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-08 James D. E. Grant , Nathalie Tassotti

Here we present an alternative approach, requiring only basic tools of differential geometry. This method was conceived by Kijowski and first presented during the IV Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity in Rome (1986). It was later…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-05 Jacek Jezierski , Piotr Waluk

We give a short review of recent progress on the positive energy theorem in general relativity, especially for spacetimes with nonzero cosmological constant.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Xiao Zhang

In this paper we use Noether symmetries of the geodesic Lagrangian in Bianchi V spacetimes to study various cosmological solutions of Einstein's field equations. Our first result is the identification of the subalgebras of Noether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Sajid Ali , Ibrar Hussain

The effective gravitational mass as well as the energy and momentum distributions of a radiating charged particle in Einstein's universe are evaluated. The Moller's energy-momentum complex is employed for this computation. The spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Elias C. Vagenas

We formulate and prove the Lorentzian version of the positive mass theorems with arbitrary negative cosmological constant for asymptotically AdS spacetimes. This work is the continuation of the second author's recent work on the positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Naqing Xie , Xiao Zhang

We give a correct tensor proof of the positive energy problem for the case including momentum on basis of conditions of existence of the two-to-one correspondence between the Sen-Witten spinor field and the Sen-Witten orthonormal frame.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Volodymyr Pelykh

We show that gravitational energy expression simplifies when a new set of coordinates that satisfies a certain asymptotic gauge condition is used. Compared to the ADM formula, positivity of the energy is more transparent in this new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-14 Ozgur Sarioglu , Bayram Tekin

We show a spacetime positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat initial data sets with a noncompact boundary. We develop a mass type invariant and a boundary dominant energy condition. Our proof is based on spinors.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Xiaoxiang Chai

The positive mass theorem in general relativity states that in an asymptotically flat spacetime, if the momentum--energy tensor is divergence-free and satisfies a dominant energy condition, then a total momentum--energy four-vector can be…

General Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Changbiao Wang

It has been shown that for the Reissner-Nordstrom solution to the vacuum Einstein field equations charge, like mass, has a unique space-time signature [Found. Phys. 38, 293-300 (2008)]. The presence of charge results in a negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerald E. Marsh

An $N = 1$ supersymmetric version of two dimensional dilaton gravity coupled to matter is considered. It is shown that the linear dilaton vacuum spontaneously breaks half the supersymmetries, leaving broken a linear combination of left and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Youngchul Park , Andrew Strominger