The positive mass theorem for non-spin manifolds with distributional curvature

Abstract

We prove the positive mass theorem for manifolds with distributional curvature which have been studied in \cite{Lee2015} without spin condition. In our case, the manifold $M$ has asymptotically flat metric $g\in C^0\bigcap W_{-q}^{1,p}$, $p>n$, $q>\frac{n-2}{2}$. We show that the generalized ADM mass $m_{ADM}(M,g)$ is non-negative as long as $q=n-2$, and $g$ has non-negative distributional scalar curvature, bounded curvature in the Alexandrov sense with its distributional Ricci curvature belonging to certain weighted Lebesgue space and some extra conditions.

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