Abstract
Consider a one-parameter family of smooth Riemannian metrics on a two-sphere, {mathscr {S}}. By choosing a one-parameter family of smooth lapse and shift, these Riemannian two-spheres can always be assembled into smooth Riemannian three-space, with metric h_{ij} on a three-manifold Sigma foliated by a one-parameter family of two-spheres {mathscr {S}}_rho . It is shown first that we can always choose the shift such that the {mathscr {S}}_rho surfaces form a smooth inverse mean curvature foliation of Sigma . An integrodifferential expression, referring only to the area of the level sets and the lapse function, is also derived that can be used to quantify the Geroch mass. If the constructed Riemannian three-space happens to be asymptotically flat and the rho -integral of the integrodifferential expression is non-negative, then not only the positive mass theorem but, if one of the {mathscr {S}}_{rho } level sets is a minimal surface, the Penrose inequality also holds. Notably, neither of the above results requires the scalar curvature of the constructed three-metric to be non-negative.
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