Harmonic functions and the mass of 3-dimensional asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S12220-022-00924-0zbMATH Open1496.53048arXiv1911.06754OpenAlexW2987736968WikidataQ115376694 ScholiaQ115376694MaRDI QIDQ2128784FDOQ2128784

Authors: Hubert L. Bray, Demetre Kazaras, Marcus A. Khuri, Daniel Stern 

Publication date: 22 April 2022

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An explicit lower bound for the mass of an asymptotically flat Riemannian 3-manifold is given in terms of linear growth harmonic functions and scalar curvature. As a consequence, a new proof of the positive mass theorem is achieved in dimension three. The proof has parallels with both the Schoen-Yau minimal hypersurface technique and Witten's spinorial approach. In particular, the role of harmonic spinors and the Lichnerowicz formula in Witten's argument is replaced by that of harmonic functions and a formula introduced by the fourth named author in recent work, while the level sets of harmonic functions take on a role similar to that of the Schoen-Yau minimal hypersurfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06754

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic functionsblack holespositive mass theoreminitial data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90)

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