The Conformal Conjecture for asymptotically flat three-manifolds with boundary
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.
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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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