Paper · Jul 12, 2023

A volume-renormalized mass for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds

Mattias Dahl, Klaus Kroencke, Stephen McCormick

math.DGarXiv:2307.06196v2
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We define a geometric quantity for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds, which we call the volume-renormalized mass. It is essentially a linear combination of the ADM mass surface integral and a renormalization of the volume. We show that the volume-renormalized mass is well-defined and diffeomorphism invariant under weaker fall-off conditions than required to ensure that the renormalized volume and the ADM mass surface integral are well-defined separately. We prove several positivity results for the volume-renormalized mass. We also use it to define a renormalized Einstein–Hilbert action and a renormalized expander entropy which is nondecreasing under the Ricci flow. Further, we show that local maximizers of the entropy are local minimizers of the volume-renormalized mass.

Comments: 45 pages; v2: presentation clarified and typos fixed

Ricci flowRicci solitonsBoundaries & non-compactPhysics

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