Stability of the positive mass theorem for special-surface tubular neighborhoods

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Let M\mathcal{M} be a subclass of asymptotically flat three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and no interior closed minimal surfaces, with either no boundary or boundary an outermost minimizing surface. For α0>0\alpha_0>0, let Σα0\Sigma_{\alpha_0} be a special surface with

Vol⁡2(Σα0)=α0,\operatorname{Vol}_{2}(\Sigma_{\alpha_0})=\alpha_0,

and let TD(Σα0)T_D(\Sigma_{\alpha_0}) denote its tubular neighborhood of radius DD. Let E3\mathbb{E}^3 be Euclidean space. Stability conjecture. Given any ϵ>0\epsilon>0, D>0D>0, and α0>0\alpha_0>0, there exists δ=δ(ϵ,D,α0)>0\delta=\delta(\epsilon,D,\alpha_0)>0 such that if M3∈MM^3\in\mathcal{M} has ADM mass m⁡ADM(M)<δ\operatorname{m}_{\mathrm{ADM}}(M)<\delta, then

dF(TD(Σα0)⊂M3, TD(Σα0)⊂E3)<ϵ.d_{\mathcal{F}}\bigl(T_D(\Sigma_{\alpha_0})\subset M^3,\,T_D(\Sigma_{\alpha_0})\subset\mathbb{E}^3\bigr)<\epsilon.

This proposes intrinsic flat stability of the positive mass theorem in the stated three-dimensional class, measured on fixed-radius tubular neighborhoods of special surfaces. The supplied text does not indicate whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Dan A. Lee and Christina Sormani, “Stability of the Positive Mass Theorem for Rotationally Symmetric Riemannian Manifolds”, arXiv:1104.2657 (2014).

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