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Stability results for complex Monge-Ampère equations in various classes.

Solves a complex Monge-Ampère equation on compact Hermitian manifolds.

Let $X$ be a compact Kähler manifold and $\{θ\}$ be a big cohomology class. We prove several results about the singularity type of full mass currents, answering a number of open questions in the field. First, we show that the Lelong numbers and multiplier ideal sheaves of $θ$-plurisubharmonic functions with full mass a…

New solutions found with negative mass in general relativity.

The paper extends entropy concepts to Monge-Ampère measures with prescribed singularities.

Let $X$ be a compact Kähler manifold. Given a big cohomology class $\{θ\}$, there is a natural equivalence relation on the space of $θ$-psh functions giving rise to $\mathcal S(X,θ)$, the space of singularity types of potentials. We introduce a natural pseudometric $d_{\mathcal {S}}$ on $\mathcal S(X,θ)$ that is non-de…

Mass in relativity linked to polyhedra geometry.

Mass in relativity linked to polyhedra geometry.

New mass definition linked to ADM mass for general metrics.

In this sequel paper we give a shorter, second proof of the monotonicity of the Hawking mass for time flat surfaces under spacelike uniformly area expanding flows in spacetimes that satisfy the dominant energy condition. We also include a third proof which builds on a known formula and describe a class of sufficient co…

Defined and proved monotonicity of a product on compact Hermitian manifolds.

We describe explicitly the large volume isoperimetric regions of a natural class of asymptotically flat manifolds, in any dimension. These isoperimetric regions detect the mass and the center of mass of such manifolds when viewed as initial data sets for the Einstein equations in general relativity. Using the positivit…

Study proves positivity of quasi-local masses in general relativity using spinors.

We define the "sum of squares of the wavelengths" of a Riemannian surface (M,g) to be the regularized trace of the inverse of the Laplacian. We normalize by scaling and adding a constant, to obtain a "mass", which is scale invariant and vanishes at the round sphere. This is an anlaog for closed surfaces of the ADM mass…

In this paper we characterize the intrinsic geometry of apparent horizons (outermost marginally outer trapped surfaces) in asymptotically flat spacetimes; that is, the Riemannian metrics on the two sphere which can arise. Furthermore we determine the minimal ADM mass of a spacetime containing such an apparent horizon. …

The center of mass in General Relativity is hard to define due to coordinate freedom.

Local minimality proven for stable free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces.

The classical notion of center of mass for an isolated system in general relativity is derived from the Hamiltonian formulation and represented by a flux integral at infinity. In contrast to mass and linear momentum which are well-defined for asymptotically flat manifolds, center of mass and angular momentum seem less …

New definitions of conserved quantities at null infinity resolve ambiguities in general relativity.

Study of quasilocal mass using isometric embedding in various spacetimes.

We identify a condition on spacelike 2-surfaces in a spacetime that is relevant to understanding the concept of mass in general relativity. We prove a formula for the variation of the spacetime Hawking mass under a uniformly area expanding flow and show that it is nonnegative for these so-called "time flat surfaces." S…

We bound the locations of outermost minimal surfaces in geometrostatic manifolds whose ADM mass is small relative to the separation between the black holes and prove the Intrinsic Flat Stability of the Positive Mass Theorem in this setting.

Mantoulidis and Schoen developed a novel technique to handcraft asymptotically flat extensions of Riemannian manifolds $(Σ\cong \mathbb{S}^2,g)$, with $g$ satisfying $λ_1 = λ_1(-Δ_g + K(g))>0$, where $λ_1$ is the first eigenvalue of the operator $-Δ_g+K(g)$ and $K(g)$ is the Gaussian curvature of $g$, with control on t…

Consider an asymptotically flat Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $n \geq 3$ with nonempty compact boundary. We recall the harmonic conformal class $[g]_h$ of the metric, which consists of all conformal rescalings given by a harmonic function raised to an appropriate power. The geometric significance is that eve…

The paper defines a new mass quantity for 3-manifolds and proves a positive mass theorem.

Researchers geometrically define asymptotic coordinates in General Relativity.

A mass-type invariant for smooth metric measure spaces and its relation with the fractional Yamabe problem

Study mass and center of mass in flat 3-manifolds, proving existence of foliations.

After a detailed introduction including new examples, we give an exposition focusing on the Riemannian cases of the positive mass, Penrose, and ZAS in- equalities of general relativity, in general dimension.

It is conjectured that the full (spacetime) Bartnik mass of a surface $Σ$ is realised as the ADM mass of some stationary asymptotically flat manifold with boundary data prescribed by $Σ$. Assuming this holds true for a 1-parameter family of surfaces $Σ_t$ evolving in an initial data set {with the dominant energy condit…

The X-ADM mass is shown to be equivalent to the ADM mass, proving the X-positive mass theorem in all dimensions.

First we restate the definition of a Zero Area Singularity, recently introduced by H. Bray. We then consider several definitions of mass for these singularities. We use the Inverse Mean Curvature Flow to prove some new results about the mass of a singularity, the ADM mass of the manifold, and the capacity of the singul…

First we review the definition of a negative point mass singularity. Then we examine the gravitational lensing effects of these singularities in isolation and with shear and convergence from continuous matter. We review the Inverse Mean Curvature Flow and use this flow to prove some new results about the mass of a sing…

We present the first estimation of the mass and spin magnitude of Kerr black holes resulting from the coalescence of binary black holes using a deep neural network. The network is trained on a dataset containing 80\% of the full publicly available catalog of numerical simulations of gravitational waves emission by bina…

Defines a spinorial quasilocal mass for compact manifolds.

We prove the Riemannian Penrose conjecture, an important case of a conjecture made by Roger Penrose in 1973, by defining a new flow of metrics. This flow of metrics stays inside the class of asymptotically flat Riemannian 3-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature which contain minimal spheres. In particular, if we …

The positive mass theorem is one of the fundamental results in general relativity. It states that, assuming the dominant energy condition, the total mass of an asymptotically flat spacetime is non-negative. The Penrose inequality provides a lower bound on mass by the area of the black hole and is closely related to the…

In this article, we survey recent developments in defining the quasi-local mass in general relativity. We discuss various approaches and the properties and applications of the different definitions. Among the expected properties, we focus on the rigidity property: for a surface in the Minkowski spacetime, one expects t…

There have been many attempts to define the notion of quasilocal mass for a spacelike 2-surface in spacetime by the Hamilton-Jacobi analysis. The essential difficulty in this approach is to identify the right choice of the background configuration to be subtracted from the physical Hamiltonian. Quasilocal mass should b…

Pairwise Label Smoothing improves deep model generalization by reducing overconfidence.

Identifies conditions for multiple invariant probabilities in Markov kernels.

We observe that an analogue of the Positive Mass Theorem in the time-symmetric case for three-space-time-dimensional general relativity follows trivially from the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. In this case we also have that the spatial slice is diffeomorphic to $\Real^2$.

The paper proves conditions for positive scalar curvature metrics on manifolds with incompressible hypersurfaces.

The study extends conserved quantities theory to non-compact boundary initial data sets.

Physicists believe, with some justification, that there should be a correspondence between familiar properties of Newtonian gravity and properties of solutions of the Einstein equations. The Positive Mass Theorem (PMT), first proved over twenty years ago \cite{SchoenYau79b,Witten81}, is a remarkable testament to this f…

The paper proves stability of the positive mass theorem using intrinsic flat convergence.

Local mass perspective on Bayesian inference

Develops theory of relatively geometric actions on CAT(0) cube complexes.