@article{HermannHumbert2016,
  author    = {Hermann, Andreas and Humbert, Emmanuel},
  title     = {About the mass of certain second order elliptic operators},
  series = {Advances in mathematics},
  volume    = {294},
  journal   = {Advances in mathematics},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {San Diego},
  issn      = {0001-8708},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.aim.2016.03.008},
  pages     = {596 -- 633},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Let (M, g) be a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension n >= 3 and let f is an element of C-infinity (M), such that the operator P-f := Delta g + f is positive. If g is flat near some point p and f vanishes around p, we can define the mass of P1 as the constant term in the expansion of the Green function of P-f at p. In this paper, we establish many results on the mass of such operators. In particular, if f := n-2/n(n-1)s(g), i.e. if P-f is the Yamabe operator, we show the following result: assume that there exists a closed simply connected non-spin manifold M such that the mass is non-negative for every metric g as above on M, then the mass is non-negative for every such metric on every closed manifold of the same dimension as M. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.},
  language  = {en}
}