The conformal Laplacian operator and the mass of asymptotically flat manifolds

Xiao Zhang
Chinese Academy of Science

Abstract

We define the eventual nonnegativity for the first Neumann eigenvalue of the conformal Laplacian operator on asymptotically flat manifolds. We prove the positivity of the mass under this condition when the manifolds don't contain black holes. We also discuss the back hole's case.

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