Positive mass and Dirac operators on weighted manifolds and smooth metric measure spaces

Abstract

We show that the weighted positive mass theorem of Baldauf–Ozuch and Chu–Zhu is equivalent to the usual positive mass theorem under suitable regularity, and can be regarded as a positive mass theorem for smooth metric measure spaces. A stronger weighted positive mass theorem is established, unifying and generalizing their results. We also study Dirac operators on certain warped product manifolds associated to smooth metric measure spaces. Applications of this include, among others, an alternative proof for a special case of our positive mass theorem, eigenvalue bounds for the Dirac operator on closed spin manifolds, and a new way to understand the weighted Dirac operator using warped products.