In this paper we consider the positive mass theorem for general initial data sets satisfying the dominant energy condition which are singular across a piecewise smooth surface. We find jump conditions on the metric and second fundamental form which are sufficient for the positivity of the total spacetime mass. Our method extends that of [30] to the singular case (which we refer to as initial data sets with corners) using some ideas from [31]. As such we give an integral lower bound on the spacetime mass and we characterise the case of zero mass. Our approach also leads to a new notion of quasilocal mass which we show to be positive, extending the work of [54] to the spacetime case. Moreover, we give sufficient conditions under which spacetime Bartnik data sets cannot admit a fill-in satisfying the dominant energy condition. This generalises the work of [58] and [57] to the spacetime setting.
On a complete p-nonparabolic 3-dimensional manifold with non-negative scalar curvature and vanishing second homology, we establish a sharp monotonicity formula for the proper p-Green function along its level sets for 1 < p < 3. This can be viewed as a generalization of the recent result by in the case of p = 2. No smoothness assumption is made on the p-Green function when 1 < p ≤ 2. Several rigidity results are also proven.
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