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

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    $\begingroup$ 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?) $\endgroup$
    – Willie Wong
    Commented Jun 16, 2011 at 16:04
  • $\begingroup$ "good" = "one which you would recommend to a friend" $\endgroup$
    – ε-δ
    Commented Jun 20, 2011 at 13:53
  • $\begingroup$ Depends on the mathematical background and knowledge of said friend. $\endgroup$
    – Hollis Williams
    Commented Nov 19, 2020 at 11:30

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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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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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    $\begingroup$ 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. $\endgroup$
    – ε-δ
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Lecture notes (2009) by Rick Schoen on Relativity :

http://math.stanford.edu/~schoen/trieste2012/

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    – Ben McKay
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Dan Lee's book Geometric Relativity available here: https://bookstore.ams.org/gsm-201/

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Not a survey per se, but a good article on the theorem is the one below which gives a quick, clear sketch of the second part of Schoen and Yau's proof of the positive mass theorem.

It might be helpful to read this before reading the second part of the proof in order to not get lost in the details, especially if one does not have a background in PDE analysis.

  • Schoen R and Yau S-T 1979 Positivity of the Total Mass of a General Space-Time. Physical Review Letters 43, 20
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