{ "id": "1211.7305", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-11-30T16:34:57.000Z", "updated": "2013-04-26T13:11:09.000Z", "title": "A positive mass theorem in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory", "authors": [ "Yuxin Ge", "Guofang Wang", "Jie Wu" ], "comment": "Withdrawn since main results were integrated into the new version of arXiv 1211.3645 as applications", "categories": [ "math.DG", "gr-qc" ], "abstract": "As an interesting application of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory and our work on the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern mass (Ge, Wang, Wu), we obtain a positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat graphs in $\\R^{n+1}$ under a condition that $R+\\alpha L_2$ is non-negative, where $R$ is the scalar curvature, $\\alpha\\in\\R$ a constant and $L_2$ the second Gauss-Bonnet curvature. A Penrose type inequality is also obtained in the case $\\alpha>0$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-04-26T13:11:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "positive mass theorem", "einstein-gauss-bonnet theory", "penrose type inequality", "second gauss-bonnet curvature", "scalar curvature" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1204983, "adsabs": "2012arXiv1211.7305G" } } }