Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4606112 | Differential Geometry and its Applications | 2014 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Inspired by Witten's insightful spinor proof of the positive mass theorem, in this paper, we use the spinor method to derive higher dimensional type conformal positive mass theorems on asymptotically flat spin manifolds with inner boundary, which states that under a condition about the plus (minus) relation between the scalar curvatures of the original and the conformal metrics in addition with some boundary condition, we will get the associated positivity of their ADM masses. The rigidity part of the plus part is used in the proof of black hole uniqueness theorems. They are related with quasi-local mass and the spectrum of Dirac operator.
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Authors
Qizhi Wang,