Penrose's Gibbons–Penrose inequality for surfaces in Minkowski spacetime
Penrose's Gibbons–Penrose inequality for surfaces in Minkowski spacetime
Let be a two-dimensional spacelike closed embedded orientable surface in Minkowski spacetime, diffeomorphic to . Let be a fixed future timelike vector satisfying . Let be the mean curvature vector of , and let be its dual mean curvature vector. A surface is past null convex when the past null hypersurface generated by it is smooth. Penrose's conjecture. Suppose that is past null convex. Then
This is a spacetime analogue of the Penrose inequality, relating the dual mean-curvature integral to the area of the surface. The source does not state a resolution, so the conjecture is treated as open.
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Simon Brendle and Mu-Tao Wang, “A Gibbons-Penrose inequality for surfaces in Schwarzschild spacetime”, arXiv:1303.1863 (2013).
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