Gibbons–Penrose inequality for surfaces in Schwarzschild spacetime

Let Σ\Sigma be a spacelike 22-surface in Schwarzschild spacetime, and let J\vec{J} denote its dual mean curvature vector. Suppose that the past null hypersurface generated by Σ\Sigma is smooth. Let mm be the total mass of the Schwarzschild spacetime. Gibbons–Penrose conjecture. Then

ΣJ,tdμ+16πm16πΣ.-\int_\Sigma \left\langle \vec{J},\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\right\rangle\,d\mu+16\pi m\geq\sqrt{16\pi|\Sigma|}.

This extends the Minkowski-space inequality by including the Schwarzschild mass term. 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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