The Conformal Conjecture for asymptotically flat three-manifolds with boundary
Let be a smooth asymptotically flat 3-manifold with compact, smooth, nonempty boundary , with extending smoothly to . Given , there exists a smooth, positive function on and metric . Let be the outermost minimal area enclosure of with respect to .
Conformal Conjecture. The function is harmonic with respect to and tends to 1 at infinity; in the metric , the areas of and differ by at most ; and is disjoint from .
The third condition makes a smooth zero-mean-curvature surface in . The conjecture is known in the spherically symmetric case and is needed for the arguments establishing the ZAS inequality.
References
Primary source
Hubert L. Bray and Jeffrey L. Jauregui, “A geometric theory of zero area singularities in general relativity”, arXiv:0909.0522 (2012).
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