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A positive mass theorem for low-regularity metrics

Differential Geometry 2012-05-08 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove a positive mass theorem for continuous Riemannian metrics in the Sobolev space Wloc2,n/2(M)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 mass theorem may be proved by our methods.

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@article{arxiv.1205.1302,
  title  = {A positive mass theorem for low-regularity metrics},
  author = {James D. E. Grant and Nathalie Tassotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.1302},
  year   = {2012}
}

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