A positive mass theorem for low-regularity metrics

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Authors: James D. E. Grant, Nathalie Tassotti 

Publication date: 7 May 2012

Abstract: We prove a positive mass theorem for continuous Riemannian metrics in the Sobolev space $W_{mathrmloc}^{2,n/2}(M)$. We argue that this is the largest class of metrics with scalar curvature a positive a.c. measure for which the positive mass theorem may be proved by our methods.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) General relativity (83C99)

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