Scalar curvature lower bounds on asymptotically flat manifolds

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the scalar curvature in the distributional sense of \cite{MR3366052} and the scalar curvature lower bound in the $\beta -$weak $(\beta \in (0,\frac{1}{2}))$ sense of \cite{MR4685089} on an asymptotically flat $n-$manifold with a $W^{1,p}(p>n)$ metric. We first show that the scalar curvature lower bound under the Ricci-DeTurck flow depends on the scalar curvature lower bound in the $\beta -$weak sense and the time. Then we prove that the lower bound of the distributional scalar curvature of a $W^{1,p}$ metric coincides with the lower bound of the scalar curvature in the $\beta -$weak sense at infinity.