Speaker
Prof.
Hari Kunduri
(McMaster University, Mathematics and Physics)
Description
A foundational result of general relativity is that the positive mass theorem. This states that the ADM mass of an asymptotically flat initial data set is non-negative and vanishes if and only if the initial data embeds into Minkowski spacetime. I will discuss some recent work with A. Alaee and M. Khuri on extending this result to toric Riemannian manifolds with non-negative scalar curvature that are asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) and asymptotically locally flat (ALF).
Author
Prof.
Hari Kunduri
(McMaster University, Mathematics and Physics)