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20242026
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6 papers

math.DG2026

The Hyperboloidal and Spacetime Positive Mass Theorem in All Dimensions

Sven Hirsch, Marcus Khuri, Martin Lesourd +1

Using the recent work of Brendle--Wang on the Riemannian positive mass theorem, we prove the spacetime positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat and asymptotically hyperboloida…

gr-qc2026

The Spacetime Positive Mass Theorem with Multiple Time Dimensions

Sven Hirsch, Alec Payne, Yiyue Zhang

We generalize the spacetime positive mass theorem to include multiple time dimensions. In particular, we show that the mass remains nonnegative in the sense that the energy is…

gr-qc2025

Causal character of imaginary Killing spinors and spinorial slicings

Sven Hirsch, Yiyue Zhang

We characterize spin initial data sets that saturate the BPS bound in the asymptotically AdS setting. This includes both gravitational waves and rotating black holes in higher dime…

math.DG2025

Rigidity of Asymptotically Hyperboloidal Initial Data Sets with Vanishing Mass

Sven Hirsch, Hyun Chul Jang, Yiyue Zhang

In Special Relativity, massless objects are characterized as either vacuum states or as radiation propagating at the speed of light. This distinction extends to General Relativity…

gr-qc2025

Initial data sets with vanishing mass are contained in pp-wave spacetimes

Sven Hirsch, Yiyue Zhang

In 1981, Schoen-Yau and Witten showed that in General Relativity both the total energy and the total mass of an initial data set modeling an isolated gravitational system a…

math.DG2024

Stability of Llarull's theorem in all dimensions

Sven Hirsch, Yiyue Zhang

Llarull's theorem characterizes the round sphere among all spin manifolds whose scalar curvature is bounded from below by . In this paper we show that if the scalar c…