Incompressible minimal surfaces, three-dimensional manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature, and the positive mass conjecture in general relativity
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 75 (6) , 2567
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.75.6.2567
Abstract
We study three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. We find new topological obstruction for such manifolds. Our method turns out to be useful in studying the positive mass conjecture in general relativity.Keywords
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