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We prove that there are energetically stable bimetric theories. These theories satisfies a positive energy theorem. We construct a model example.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-23 Idan Talshir

Sharp comparison theorems are derived for all eigenvalues of the (weighted) Laplacian, for various classes of weighted-manifolds (i.e. Riemannian manifolds endowed with a smooth positive density). Examples include Euclidean space endowed…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Emanuel Milman

In this paper, we introduce a new family of mass-type invariants for time-symmetric initial data in space-times satisfying the Dominant Energy Condition. For positive cosmological constant, these invariants, unlike the total Hawking mass,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Virginia Agostiniani , Stefano Borghini , Lorenzo Mazzieri

The convergence of polyhomogeneous expansions of zero-rest-mass fields in asymptotically flat spacetimes is discussed. An existence proof for the asymptotic characteristic initial value problem for a zero-rest-mass field with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Juan A. Valiente-Kroon

We construct asymptotically flat, scalar flat extensions of Bartnik data $(\Sigma, \gamma, H)$, where $\gamma$ is a metric of positive Gauss curvature on a two-sphere $\Sigma$, and $H$ is a function that is either positive or identically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-12 Pengzi Miao , Naqing Xie

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

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 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

The results on local existence and continuation criteria obtained by G. Rein in [4] are extended to the case with a non-zero cosmological constant. It is also shown that for the spherically symmetric case and a positive cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sophonie Blaise Tchapnda , Norbert Noutchegueme

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

Stochastic conservation laws are often challenging when it comes to proving existence of non-negative solutions. In a recent work by J. Fischer and G. Gr\"un (2018, Existence of positive solutions to stochastic thin-film equations, SIAM J.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Federico Cornalba

We study positive energy solutions of the anisotropic Kepler problem with homogeneous potential. First some asymptotic property of positive energy solutions is obtained, as time goes to infinity. Afterwards, we prove the existence of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Guowei Yu

Motivated by the foliation by stable spheres with constant mean curvature constructed by Huisken-Yau, Metzger proved that every initial data set can be foliated by spheres with constant expansion (CE) if the manifold is asymptotically equal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Christopher Nerz

We prove the positive mass theorem on conical manifold with small cone angle and co-dimensional two singularities under the assumption that the ambient manifold admits a spin structure and locally conformal flat

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Yaoting Gui

The Positive Binding Conjecture is a proposed formulation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture appropriate to Anti de-Sitter (AdS) space. It proposes that in a consistent gravitational theory, with a $U(1)$ gauge symmetry, there must exist a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Stefano Andriolo , Marco Michel , Eran Palti

In relativity, the energy of a moving particle depends on the observer, and the rest mass is the minimal energy seen among all observers. The Wang-Yau quasi-local mass for a surface in spacetime introduced in [7] and [8] is defined by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-15 PoNing Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

We use the techniques of Bartnik (2005) to show that the space of solutions to the Einstein-Yang-Mills constraint equations on an asymptotically at manifold with one end and zero boundary components, has a Hilbert manifold structure; the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-02 Stephen McCormick

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

I describe the construction of a large class of asymptotically flat initial data with non-vanishing mass and angular momentum for which the metric and the extrinsic curvature have asymptotic expansions at space-like infinity in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dain

In this paper, the existence and uniqueness of foliations by constant mean curvature spheres on asymptotically flat manifolds of nonzero ADM mass in all dimensions were established. (A similar result in the case of positive mass was…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Rugang Ye