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Could you suggest a good survey paper on positive mass theorem?

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Willie Wong

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Come to think of it, "good" is subjective. What are your backgrounds and what are you looking for in one such survey? (In particular, why not read the original papers?) – Willie Wong Jun 16 2011 at 16:04

"good" = "one which you would recommend to a friend" – ε-δ Jun 20 2011 at 13:53

Peter Smillie · Answer 1 · 2011-06-16 21:20:22Z UTC

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H. Bray's articles "Black Holes, Geometric Flows, and the Penrose Inequality in General Relativity" (Notices AMS, 2002) contains a very short, but elegant, survey of the positive mass theorem. He also has a longer survey that goes into several simpler cases.

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Peter Smillie

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This survey says only who-did-and-what but it does not discuss the ideas in the proof. It also does not mention many related results. – ε-δ Jun 20 2011 at 13:52

Willie Wong · Answer 2 · 2011-06-16 16:00:43Z UTC

Maybe Markus Khuri's RTG notes would help?

There's also a set of lecture notes by Rick Schoen for his 2009 course in Stanford on General Relativity, which has a nice discussion of the fundamental ideas involved in the proof of the PMT. I don't know if it is publich available on the internet though...

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