Initial Data Rigidity Results

Commun Math Phys. 2021;386(1):253-268. doi: 10.1007/s00220-021-04033-x. Epub 2021 Feb 27.

Abstract

We prove several rigidity results related to the spacetime positive mass theorem. A key step is to show that certain marginally outer trapped surfaces are weakly outermost. As a special case, our results include a rigidity result for Riemannian manifolds with a lower bound on their scalar curvature.