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We establish the inequality for Henneaux-Teitelboim's total energy-momentum for asymptotically anti-de Sitter initial data sets which are asymptotic to arbitrary $t$-slice in anti-de Sitter spacetime. In particular, when $t=0$, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-18 Yaohua Wang , Naqing Xie , Xiao Zhang

A new inequality for a nonlinear surface layer integral is proved for minimizers of causal variational principles. This inequality is applied to obtain a new proof of the positive mass theorem with volume constraint. Next, a positive mass…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran

We prove a new positive mass theorem for three-dimensional manifolds which are asymptotically hyperboloidal of order greater than $1$. The mass quantity under consideration is the volume-renormalized mass recently introduced in a paper by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Klaus Kroencke , Francesca Oronzio , Alan Pinoy

Extending the work of Park and Strominger, we prove a positive energy theorem for the exactly solvable quantum-corrected 2D dilaton gravity theories. The positive energy functional we construct is shown to be unique (within a reasonably…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Adel Bilal

For a given admissible vector field $X$, we define a geometric quantity for asymptotically flat $3$--manifolds, called $X$--ADM mass and we establish a relative positive mass theorem via a monotonicity formula along the level sets of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Carlo Mantegazza , Francesca Oronzio

In this paper, we prove conformal positive mass theorems for asymptotically flat manifolds with charge. We apply conformal relations to show that if the conformal sum of scalar curvature is not less than the norm square of electric field…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Wang Qizhi

We study the quasi-local masses arising in general relativity using spinors and prove their positivity property. This leads to the question of a pure quasi-local proof of the positivity of the Wang-Yau \cite{yau} quasi-local mass. More…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Puskar Mondal , Shing-Tung-Yau

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

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 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

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 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

We give a lower bound for the Lorentz length of the ADM energy-momentum vector (ADM mass) of 3-dimensional asymptotically flat initial data sets for the Einstein equations. The bound is given in terms of linear growth `spacetime harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Sven Hirsch , Demetre Kazaras , Marcus Khuri

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

Using the positive energy theorem, we derive some constraints on static steller models in asymptotically flat spacetimes in a general setting without imposing spherical symmetry. We show that there exist no regular solutions under certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tetsuya Shiromizu , Hirotaka Yoshino

In this paper, we consider compact graphical manifolds with boundary over (locally) hyperbolic static space. We prove the stability of the positive mass theorem with respect to the Federer--Fleming flat distance for the static quasi-local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Aghil Alaee , Jiusen Liu

The study of stable minimal surfaces in Riemannian $3$-manifolds $(M, g)$ with non-negative scalar curvature has a rich history. In this paper, we prove rigidity of such surfaces when $(M, g)$ is asymptotically flat and has horizon…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Alessandro Carlotto , Otis Chodosh , Michael Eichmair

Wang and Yau [10] introduced a quasi-local mass, which is a hyperbolic background generalization of Liu-Yau's expression [7] [8], and proved its positivity. In this note, we prove that the positivity of this quasi-local mass is still valid…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Xian-Tao Huang

This work considers positive energy theorems in asymptotically, locally AdS spacetimes. Particular attention is given to spacetimes where conformal infinity has compact, Einstein cross-sections admitting Killing or parallel spinors; a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Virinchi Rallabhandi

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