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The Positive Mass Conjecture states that any complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnnegative scalar curvature has nonnegative mass. Moreover, the equality case of the Positive Mass Conjecture states that in the above situation, if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dan A. Lee

The Witten spinorial argument has been adapted in several works over the years to prove positivity of mass in the asymptotically AdS and asymptotically hyperbolic settings in arbitrary dimensions. In this paper we prove a scalar curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Lars Andersson , Mingliang Cai , Gregory J. Galloway

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 positive mass theorem with angular momentum and charges for axially symmetric, simply connected, maximal, complete initial data sets with two ends, one designated asymptotically flat and the other either (Kaluza-Klein)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Aghil Alaee , Shing-Tung Yau

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

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

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

A positive mass theorem for General Relativity Theory is proved. The proof is 4-dimensional in nature, and relies completely on arguments pertaining to causal structure, the basic idea being that positive energy-density focuses null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 R. Penrose , R. D. Sorkin , E. Woolgar

We study the possibility that the vacuum energy density of scalar and internal-space gauge fields arising from the process of dimensional reduction of higher dimensional gravity theories plays the role of quintessence. We show that, for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 M. C. Bento , O. Bertolami

Following the Witten-Nester formalism, we present a useful prescription using Weyl spinors towards the positivity of mass. As a generalization of arXiv:1310.1663, we show that some "positivity conditions" must be imposed upon the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Masato Nozawa , Tetsuya Shiromizu

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

This paper addresses the question of whether Witten's proof of positive ADM energy for classical general relativity can be extended to give a proof of positive energy for a non-perturbative quantization of general relativity. To address…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Lee Smolin

We derive expressions for the total Hamiltonian energy of gravitating systems in higher dimensional theories in terms of the Riemann tensor, allowing a cosmological constant $\Lambda \in \mathbb{R}$. Our analysis covers asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-21 Hamed Barzegar , Piotr T. Chruściel , Michael Hörzinger

The positivity of the Bondi mass has been proven in 4 dimensions, but in higher dimensions the issue remains open. The formalism of the present paper has been developed to investigate this and is well suited to the higher dimensional case.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-24 Alex Thorne

We show that the borderline cases in the proof of the positive energy theorem for initial data sets, on spin manifolds, in dimensions $n\ge 3$, are only possible for initial data arising from embeddings in Minkowski space-time.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Piotr T. Chrusciel , Daniel Maerten

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

We observe that an analogue of the Positive Mass Theorem in the time-symmetric case for three-space-time-dimensional general relativity follows trivially from the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. In this case we also have that the spatial slice is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-02 Willie Wai-Yeung Wong

We prove a positive energy theorem in 2+1 dimensional gravity for open universes and any matter energy-momentum tensor satisfying the dominant energy condition. We consider on the space-like initial value surface a family of widening Wilson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Menotti , D. Seminara

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

The "positive square" of any tensor is presented in a universal and unified manner, valid in Lorentzian manifolds of arbitrary dimension, and independently of any (anti)-symmetry properties of the tensor. For rank-m tensors, the positive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 José M. M. Senovilla