{ "id": "1407.0673", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-07-02T18:33:13.000Z", "updated": "2014-07-02T18:33:13.000Z", "title": "A positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat manifolds with a non-compact boundary", "authors": [ "Sergio Almaraz", "Ezequiel Barbosa", "Levi Lopes de Lima" ], "comment": "30 pages", "categories": [ "math.DG", "gr-qc", "math.AP" ], "abstract": "We prove a positive mass theorem for $n$-dimensional asymptotically flat manifolds with a non-compact boundary if either $3\\leq n\\leq 7$ or if $n\\geq 3$ and the manifold is spin. This settles, for this class of manifolds, a question posed in a recent paper by the first author in connection with the long-term behavior of a certain Yamabe-type flow on scalar-flat compact manifolds with boundary.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-07-02T18:33:13.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "53C21", "53C20", "53C27" ], "keywords": [ "positive mass theorem", "non-compact boundary", "scalar-flat compact manifolds", "dimensional asymptotically flat manifolds", "yamabe-type flow" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 30, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1304450, "adsabs": "2014arXiv1407.0673A" } } }