A Green's function proof of the positive mass theorem

DOI10.1007/S00220-024-04941-8MaRDI QIDQ6202455zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Virginia Agostiniani, Lorenzo Mazzieri, Francesca Oronzio

Publication date 26 February 2024

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08402

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations on manifolds; differential operators (58Jxx) Global differential geometry (53Cxx) General relativity (83Cxx)

Abstract: 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 $3$-manifold. In the same context and for $1<p<3$, 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.

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