Measuring mass via coordinate cubes

DOI10.1007/S00220-020-03811-3MaRDI QIDQ2006406zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pengzi Miao

Publication date 9 October 2020

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11757

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotically flat manifoldspositive mass theoremscalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: Inspired by a formula of Stern that relates scalar curvature to harmonic functions, we evaluate the mass of an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold along faces and edges of a large coordinate cube. In terms of the mean curvature and dihedral angle, the resulting mass formula relates to Gromov's scalar curvature comparison theory for cubic Riemannian polyhedra. In terms of the geodesic curvature and turning angle of slicing curves, the formula realizes the mass as integration of the angle defect detected by the boundary term in the Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

Review text

Stern gave an interesting formula relating the scalar curvature of a manifold and the level set of its harmonic functions. If the manifold \((M, g)\) is asymptotically flat, by applying Stern's formula, Bray, Kazaras, Khuri,and Stern gave a new proof of the 3-dimensional positive mass theorem, which was originally proved by Schoen and Yau, and later by Witten. Motivated by Stern's formula, the author studies the mass of an asymptotically flat 3-manifold \((M,g)\) using the level set of coordinate function, which is a linear growth harmonic function in Eucliean space. More precisely, the author obtains a formula of the mass as an integral over large coordinate cubes. This geometric mass formula expresses the mass as an integral of the mean curvature on the boundary of the cube and the dihedra angles along the edges of the cube asymptotically. As an application, together with the positive mass theorem, this geometric mass formula for 3-dimensional asymptotically flat manifolds has connection with Gromov's scalar curvature comparison theory for cubic Riemannian polyhedra. This geometric mass formula also realizes the mass in terms of the geodesic curvature and turning angle of the curve which is the intersection by the boundary of cube and the coordinate plane.

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