Monotone quantities on $3$-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature

Abstract

In this paper, we derive monotone quantities for harmonic functions on asymptotically flat 3-manifolds with simple topology and nonnegative scalar curvature. These monotone quantities are constant on spatial Schwarzschild manifolds outside rotationally symmetric spheres. To derive monotone quantities, our method is different from the ODE analysis in Xia-Yin-Zhou \cite{Xia} and Mazurowski-Yao \cite{Maz}, we follow the strategy developed in Miao \cite{Miao}. As applications, we recover and generalize some geometric inequalities and mass-capacity inequalities in Miao \cite{Miao} and Oronzio \cite{Oronzio}. Furthermore, we obtain the integral identities for the mass-capacity ratio which is parallel to the results in Miao \cite{Miao}.