The positive mass conjecture with arbitrary ends

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Let NnN^n be a complete manifold diffeomorphic to Rn\mathbb{R}^n, let XnX^n be a complete connected non-compact manifold, and let gg be a smooth complete metric on

Mn=Nn#XnM^n=N^n\mathbin{\#}X^n

with nonnegative scalar curvature R0R\geq 0. Assume that gg is asymptotically flat on NnN^n with suitable fall-off. Positive mass conjecture with arbitrary ends. The ADM mass of (Mn,g)(M^n,g) measured in the asymptotically flat end NnN^n is nonnegative. This extends the positive mass principle to an asymptotically flat end connected to an otherwise arbitrary complete non-compact manifold. The source presents it as a conjectural implication from which the LCF Liouville conjecture follows; no resolution is supplied in the given text.

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Martin Lesourd, Ryan Unger and Shing-Tung Yau, “Positive Scalar Curvature on Noncompact Manifolds and the Liouville Theorem”, arXiv:2009.12618 (2020).

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