Positive Mass Theorem Research Articles

The positive energy theorem for weighted asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes

The positive energy theorem for weighted asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes

The positive mass theorem with arbitrary ends

The positive mass theorem with arbitrary ends

Tilted spacetime positive mass theorem with arbitrary ends

In this paper, we prove the spacetime positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat spin initial data sets with arbitrary ends and a non-compact boundary. Moreover, we demonstrate a quantitative shielding theorem, subject to the tilted boundary dominant energy condition. Our results are established by solving a mixed boundary value problem for the Dirac-Witten operator with a Callias potential.

Fill-ins with scalar curvature lower bounds and applications to positive mass theorems

Given a constant C and a smooth closed (n-1)\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$(n-1)$$\\end{document}-dimensional Riemannian manifold (Σ,g)\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$(\\Sigma , g)$$\\end{document} equipped with a positive function H, a natural question to ask is whether this manifold can be realised as the boundary of a smooth n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with scalar curvature bounded below by C and boundary mean curvature H. That is, does there exist a fill-in of (Σ,g,H)\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$(\\Sigma ,g,H)$$\\end{document} with scalar curvature bounded below by C? We use variations of an argument due to Miao and the author (Int Math Res Not 7:2019, 2019) to explicitly construct fill-ins with different scalar curvature lower bounds, where we permit the fill-in to contain another boundary component provided it is a minimal surface. Our main focus is to illustrate the applications of such fill-ins to geometric inequalities in the context of general relativity. By filling in a manifold beyond a boundary, one is able to obtain lower bounds on the mass in terms of the boundary geometry through positive mass theorems and Penrose inequalities. We consider fill-ins with both positive and negative scalar curvature lower bounds, which from the perspective of general relativity corresponds to the sign of the cosmological constant, as well as a fill-in suitable for the inclusion of electric charge.

Infinite-time blowing-up solutions to small perturbations of the Yamabe flow

In this paper, we examine a PDE aspect of the Yamabe flow as an energy-critical parabolic equation of the fast-diffusion type. It is well-known that under the validity of the positive mass theorem, the Yamabe flow on a smooth closed Riemannian manifold M exists for all time t and uniformly converges to a solution to the Yamabe problem on M as t→∞. We show that such results no longer hold if some arbitrarily small and smooth perturbation is imposed on it, by constructing solutions to the perturbed flow that blow up at multiple points on M in the infinite time. We also examine the stability of the blow-up phenomena under a negativity condition on the Ricci curvature at blow-up points.

Some stability results of positive mass theorem for uniformly asymptotically flat 3-manifolds

Some stability results of positive mass theorem for uniformly asymptotically flat 3-manifolds

Rigidity of non-compact static domains in hyperbolic space via positive mass theorems

Rigidity of non-compact static domains in hyperbolic space via positive mass theorems

A Green’s Function Proof of the Positive Mass Theorem

In this paper, a new proof of the Positive Mass Theorem is established through a newly discovered monotonicity formula, holding along the level sets of the Green’s function of an asymptotically flat 3-manifolds. In the same context and for 1<p<3\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$1<p<3$$\\end{document}, a Geroch-type calculation is performed along the level sets of p-harmonic functions, leading to a new proof of the Riemannian Penrose Inequality under favourable assumptions. A new characterisation of scalar curvature lower bounds in terms of the monotonicity formulas is also given.

Positive Mass Theorems for Spin Initial Data Sets With Arbitrary Ends and Dominant Energy Shields

Abstract We prove a positive mass theorem for spin initial data sets $(M,g,k)$ that contain an asymptotically flat end and a shield of dominant energy (a subset of $M$ on which the dominant energy scalar $\mu -|J|$ has a positive lower bound). In a similar vein, we show that for an asymptotically flat end $\mathcal{E}$ that violates the positive mass theorem (i.e., $\textrm{E} &amp;lt; |\textrm{P}|$), there exists a constant $R&amp;gt;0$, depending only on $\mathcal{E}$, such that any initial data set containing $\mathcal{E}$ must violate the hypotheses of Witten’s proof of the positive mass theorem in an $R$-neighborhood of $\mathcal{E}$. This implies the positive mass theorem for spin initial data sets with arbitrary ends, and we also prove a rigidity statement. Our proofs are based on a modification of Witten’s approach to the positive mass theorem involving an additional independent timelike direction in the spinor bundle.

Stability of the positive mass theorem under Ricci curvature lower bounds

Stability of the positive mass theorem under Ricci curvature lower bounds

Nonlinear Isocapacitary Concepts of Mass in 3-Manifolds with Nonnegative Scalar Curvature

We deal with suitable nonlinear versions of Jauregui's isocapacitary mass in 3-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and compact outermost minimal boundary. These masses, which depend on a parameter $1 &lt; p\leq 2$, interpolate between Jauregui's mass $p=2$ and Huisken's isoperimetric mass, as $p \to 1^+$. We derive positive mass theorems for these masses under mild conditions at infinity, and we show that these masses do coincide with the ADM mass when the latter is defined. We finally work out a nonlinear potential theoretic proof of the Penrose inequality in the optimal asymptotic regime.

Intrinsic flat stability of the positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic graphical manifolds

The rigidity of the Riemannian positive mass theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds states that the total mass of such a manifold is zero if and only if the manifold is isometric to the hyperbolic space. This leads to study the stability of this statement, that is, if the total mass of an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold is almost zero, is this manifold close to the hyperbolic space in any way? Motivated by the work of Huang, Lee and Sormani for asymptotically flat graphical manifolds with respect to intrinsic flat distance, we show the intrinsic flat stability of the positive mass theorem for a class of asymptotically hyperbolic graphical manifolds by adapting the positive answer to this question provided by Huang, Lee and the third named author.

A positive energy theorem for AdS solitons

The uncharged AdS4 soliton has been recently shown to be continuously connected to a magnetic, supersymmetric AdS4 soliton within N=8 gauged supergravity. By constructing the asymptotic superalgebra, we establish a positive energy theorem for the magnetic AdS4 solitons admitting well-defined asymptotic Killing spinors, antiperiodic on a contractible S1. We show that there exists only one discrete solution endowed with these boundary conditions satisfying the bound, the latter being saturated by the null energy supersymmetric configuration. Despite having negative energy, the uncharged AdS4 soliton does not contradict the positive energy theorem, as it does not admit well-defined asymptotic Killing spinors.

Fractional Yamabe Problem on Locally Flat Conformal Infinities of Poincaré-Einstein Manifolds

Abstract We study the fractional Yamabe problem first considered by Gonzalez-Qing [36] on the conformal infinity $(M^{n}, \;[h])$ of a Poincaré-Einstein manifold $(X^{n+1}, \;g^{+})$ with either $n=2$ or $n\geq 3$ and $(M^{n}, \;[h])$ locally flat, namely $(M, h),$ is locally conformally flat. However, as for the classical Yamabe problem, because of the involved quantization phenomena, the variational analysis of the fractional one exhibits a local situation and also a global one. The latter global situation includes the case of conformal infinities of Poincaré-Einstein manifolds of dimension either $n=2$ or of dimension $n\geq 3$ and which are locally flat, and hence the minimizing technique of Aubin [4] and Schoen [48] in that case clearly requires an analogue of the positive mass theorem of Schoen-Yau [49], which is not known to hold. Using the algebraic topological argument of Bahri-Coron [8], we bypass the latter positive mass issue and show that any conformal infinity of a Poincaré-Einstein manifold of dimension either $n=2$ or of dimension $n\geq 3$ and which is locally flat admits a Riemannian metric of constant fractional scalar curvature.

Density and positive mass theorems for incomplete manifolds

Density and positive mass theorems for incomplete manifolds

Compacitification and Positive Mass Theorem for Fibered Euclidean End

We consider the Positive Mass Theorem for Riemannian manifolds (M^{n},g) with the asymptotic end (mathbb {R}^{k}times X^{n-k}, g_{mathbb {R}^{k}}+g_{X}) (kge 3) by studying the corresponding compactification problem. Here (X, g_X) is a compact scalar flat manifold. We show that the Positive Mass Theorem holds if certain generalized connected sum admits no metric of positive scalar curvature. Moreover we establish the rigidity result, namely, the mass is zero iff M is isometric to mathbb {R}^{k}times X^{n-k}.

Mass, Capacitary Functions, and the Mass-to-Capacity Ratio

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 detect the ADM mass via harmonic functions. Then we derive a family of monotone quantities and geometric inequalities if the underlying manifold has simple topology. As an immediate application, we observe several additional proofs of the $3$-dimensional Riemannian positive mass theorem. One proof leads to new, sufficient conditions that imply positivity of the mass via $C^0$-geometry of regions separating the boundary and $\infty$. A special case of such sufficient conditions shows, if a region enclosing the boundary has relative small volume, then the mass is positive. As further applications, we obtain integral identities for the mass-to-capacity ratio. We also promote the inequalities to become equality on spatial Schwarzschild manifolds outside rotationally symmetric spheres. Among other things, we show the mass-to-capacity ratio is always bounded below by one minus the square root of the normalized Willmore functional of the boundary. Prompted by our findings, we carry out a study of manifolds satisfying a constraint on the mass-to-capacity ratio. We point out such manifolds satisfy improved inequalities, their mass has an upper bound depending only on the boundary data, there are no closed minimal surfaces enclosing the boundary, and these manifolds include static extensions in the context of the Bartnik quasi-local mass.

Total Mean Curvature and First Dirac Eigenvalue

In this note, we prove an optimal upper bound for the first Dirac eigenvalue of some hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space by combining a positive mass theorem and the construction of quasi-spherical metrics. As a direct consequence of this estimate, we obtain an asymptotic expansion for the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on large spheres in three-dimensional asymptotically flat manifolds. We also study this expansion for small geodesic spheres in a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold. We finally discuss how this method can be adapted to yield similar results in the hyperbolic space.

Rigidity of mass-preserving 1-Lipschitz maps from integral current spaces into [formula omitted

We prove that given an n-dimensional integral current space and a 1-Lipschitz map, from this space onto the n-dimensional Euclidean ball, that preserves the mass of the current and is injective on the boundary, then the map has to be an isometry. We deduce as a consequence a stability result with respect to the intrinsic flat distance, which implies the stability of the positive mass theorem for graphical manifolds as originally formulated by Huang–Lee–Sormani.

Inverse mean curvature flow and the stability of the positive mass theorem

Inverse mean curvature flow and the stability of the positive mass theorem