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The positive mass theorem holds in every dimension even when the metric is only L∞ and has a singular set of Minkowski dimension less than n−3+2/n.

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arxiv 2606.23529 v2 pith:EQC6V7J6 submitted 2026-06-22 math.DG gr-qcmath.AP

Riemannian Positive Mass Theorem in All Dimensions in the Presence of Low-Codimension Singularities

Marcus Khuri , Jian Wang , Jinmin Wang This is my paper
classification math.DG gr-qcmath.AP MSC 53C2153C2483C99
keywords positive mass theoremasymptotically flat manifoldsL∞ metricsMinkowski dimensionscalar curvatureμ-bubblesconformal blow-upcodimension-three conjecture
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The classical Riemannian positive mass theorem says that an asymptotically flat manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature has nonnegative ADM mass, and mass zero only for Euclidean space. This paper extends that statement to metrics that are merely bounded and continuous, provided the set where the metric fails to be smooth is compact and has Minkowski dimension strictly less than n−3+2/n. Under that hypothesis the ADM mass of every end remains nonnegative. When the dimension of the singular set is tightened further to at most n−3+1/(n−1) and the mass of some end vanishes, the whole manifold must be Euclidean. The result therefore supplies a noncompact counterpart to Schoen’s long-standing codimension-three conjecture for positive scalar curvature. The argument proceeds by densifying the metric so that scalar curvature becomes strictly positive, conformally blowing the singular set out of existence with a Green potential, and then running a μ-bubble dimension-reduction that eventually reaches a three-dimensional contradiction.

Core claim

For any complete asymptotically flat L∞-manifold whose metric is smooth outside a compact set S of Minkowski dimension less than n−3+2/n and whose scalar curvature is nonnegative on the regular set, the ADM mass of every end is nonnegative; if in addition dim_M S ≤ n−3+1/(n−1) and the mass of some end is zero, then the manifold is isometric to Euclidean space.

What carries the argument

A two-stage conformal blow-up: first a Green-function factor that removes the original singular set while preserving an asymptotically flat end and a weighted scalar-curvature inequality, followed by a μ-bubble whose own singular set is blown up in turn, producing a weak (n−1)-data set to which the same argument applies inductively.

Load-bearing premise

The singular set must have Minkowski dimension strictly less than n−3+2/n so that it has vanishing W^{1,2}-capacity and so that the Green potential used for the first blow-up is non-integrable along every path that approaches the set.

What would settle it

An explicit complete asymptotically flat L∞-metric with nonnegative scalar curvature on the regular set, a compact singular set of Minkowski dimension strictly between n−3+2/n and n−2, and strictly negative ADM mass would refute the claim.

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Summary. The paper proves the Riemannian positive mass theorem for complete asymptotically flat L^∞-metrics that are smooth outside a compact singular set S of Minkowski dimension less than n-3+2/n, with nonnegative scalar curvature on the regular set. The ADM mass of every end is shown to be nonnegative; under the slightly stronger bound dim_M S ≤ n-3+1/(n-1), vanishing mass implies the manifold is Euclidean. The argument proceeds by a density theorem that produces strictly positive scalar curvature and harmonic asymptotics while preserving the mass up to an arbitrarily small error (Theorem 2.7), a Green-function conformal blow-up that removes S while retaining a weighted scalar-curvature inequality (Proposition 3.2), construction of stable µ-bubbles that descend the dimension (Propositions 3.4–3.6 and Theorem 3.7), and an inductive positive-mass statement for the resulting weak n-data sets (Theorem 4.2), reducing ultimately to a three-dimensional Gauss–Bonnet contradiction. Rigidity is obtained by establishing Ricci-flatness on the regular set, constructing global harmonic coordinates with Hölder control near S, and deriving weighted Hessian estimates via cut-offs adapted to the Minkowski dimension of S.

Significance. The result supplies a non-compact, asymptotically flat counterpart to Schoen’s codimension-three conjecture and extends the recent all-dimension positive-mass theorems of Bi–Hao–He–Shi–Zhu and Brendle–Wang to metrics with low-codimension singularities. The Minkowski-dimension threshold is sharp relative to the capacity and completeness estimates employed, and the concurrent compact counter-examples of Cecchini–Frenck–Zeidler underscore that the non-compact setting is more rigid. The technical contributions—capacity estimates across singular sets, a carefully calibrated Green-function blow-up, the notion of weak n-data sets, and the weighted Hessian control needed for rigidity—are substantial and of independent interest for singular scalar-curvature geometry.

major comments (2)
  1. [§5.2, display (5.36)–(5.37)] In the rigidity argument of §5.2 the weighted Hessian estimate (5.36) relies on the cut-off error term r^{2b(γ-1)+1-δ} vanishing as r o0. The exponent is made positive by choosing δ close to 1/(n-1) and ε small, but the Hölder exponent γ furnished by De Giorgi–Nash–Moser theory (Lemma 5.2) is not quantified. A short remark confirming that any γ∈(0,1) works under the stated Minkowski bound, or an explicit lower bound on γ in terms of the ellipticity constants, would close this minor gap.
  2. [Corollary 4.8 and Lemma 4.9] The inductive step (Corollary 4.8) produces a weak (n-1)-data set whose weight ρ' satisfies ρ'-1∈C^{2,α}_{3-n-q'}(E'). When the original end is only C^{2,α}-asymptotically flat of order q>(n-2)/2, the decay of the new weight is slightly weaker than the original. While the subsequent induction still reaches dimension 3, it would be useful to record that the decay remains strong enough for the monopole formula and the logarithmic cut-off argument of Lemma 4.9 to apply without further loss.
minor comments (4)
  1. [§2] Several displayed equations in §2 (e.g., (2.21), (2.28)) contain typographical artifacts of the form “n□” that should be restored to the correct Sobolev exponents n/(n-2) and 2n/(n-2).
  2. [Introduction] The definition of a weak n-data set is introduced only in §4; a one-sentence forward reference in the introduction would help the reader anticipate the inductive framework.
  3. [Proposition 3.2] In Proposition 3.2 the range of the conformal exponent a is stated as max{1,2/(n-2),1/(n-2-σ)}<a<n/(n-2). A brief parenthetical remark that this interval is non-empty precisely when σ<n-3+2/n would make the dimensional hypothesis more transparent.
  4. [References] References [3] and [6] are cited as arXiv preprints; if published versions have appeared by the time of revision they should be updated.

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No significant circularity: classical ADM mass and Minkowski-dimension thresholds are forced by capacity/Wolff estimates; Brendle–Wang and Bi–Hao–He–Shi–Zhu are used as independent black boxes.

full rationale

The derivation is a self-contained geometric-analysis argument. The density theorem (Thm 2.7) produces a nearby metric with positive scalar curvature and harmonic asymptotics by solving a linear elliptic equation whose coefficients satisfy a smallness condition coming from the classical Sobolev constant; the mass shift is the explicit monopole term of that solution. The conformal blow-up (Prop 3.2) uses a Green’s potential whose a-power is non-integrable precisely when dim_M S < n−3+2/n (Wolff-potential lower bound), producing a complete smooth manifold that still carries the original ADM mass. The subsequent µ-bubble reduction and induction on weak n-data sets (Thm 4.2) adapt the already-published Brendle–Wang scheme; the only self-citations are ordinary bibliographic references to concurrent or prior work by overlapping authors, none of which is load-bearing for a uniqueness claim that forces the present result. No parameter is fitted to data and then re-predicted, no quantity is defined in terms of the conclusion it is said to imply, and the final mass inequality is the classical ADM flux. The stricter dimension bound for rigidity is likewise forced by the weighted Hessian cut-off estimates near S. Consequently the chain does not reduce to its inputs by construction.

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Pure existence/uniqueness theorem in geometric analysis; no free parameters are fitted. The load-bearing background consists of standard elliptic and geometric-measure-theory facts plus two recent external theorems that are used as black boxes. The only genuinely new conceptual object is the “weak n-data set,” introduced to make the inductive step close.

axioms (4)
  • standard math W^{1,2}-capacity of a compact set of Minkowski dimension < n−2 vanishes, permitting integration by parts across S (Prop. 2.8).
    Classical capacity theory; invoked repeatedly for density and for solving the conformal Laplacian.
  • domain assumption Existence and regularity of stable µ-bubbles with free boundary and the associated second-variation inequality (adapted from Brendle–Wang and Chodosh–Li).
    Taken as established GMT; the paper only verifies that the barriers and the weighted scalar-curvature inequality fit the existing framework.
  • domain assumption The smooth all-dimension positive-mass theorem of Brendle–Wang (and the Green’s-function blow-up of Bi–Hao–He–Shi–Zhu) hold.
    Cited as black-box input; the present work reduces the singular case to a setting where those theorems apply.
  • standard math De Giorgi–Nash–Moser theory and Cheng–Yau gradient estimates remain valid for L∞ metrics across a set of vanishing capacity.
    Used to obtain Hölder continuity of harmonic coordinates up to S (Lemma 5.2).
invented entities (1)
  • weak n-data set no independent evidence
    purpose: A manifold equipped with a weight ρ and a positive function Q satisfying a slightly weaker integral scalar-curvature inequality than Brendle–Wang’s original n-data set; allows the inductive dimension descent to close after the second conformal blow-up.
    Introduced ad hoc in §4 so that the µ-bubble produced by the first blow-up still carries enough structure for the next reduction step. No independent geometric meaning is claimed outside the proof.

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We prove the Riemannian positive mass theorem in all dimensions for asymptotically flat $L^\infty$-metrics with subcritical singular sets. More precisely, we consider complete asymptotically flat manifolds whose metrics are smooth away from a compact singular set of Minkowski dimension less than $n-3+\frac{2}{n}$, and whose scalar curvature is nonnegative on the regular set. We show that the ADM mass of each asymptotically flat end is nonnegative, and that the mass vanishes in some end only in the Euclidean case. For the rigidity statement, we require additionally that the Minkowski dimension of the singular set is not larger than $n-3+\frac{1}{n-1}$. This gives an asymptotically flat analogue of Schoen's codimension-three conjecture for positive scalar curvature. The proof combines a density theorem for singular asymptotically flat metrics, capacity estimates across the singular set, conformal blow-up inspired by Bi-Hao-He-Shi-Zhu [3], and a $\mu$-bubble dimension-descent argument adapted from Brendle-Wang [6].

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