The positive mass conjecture for asymptotically flat manifolds with boundary
The positive mass conjecture for asymptotically flat manifolds with boundary
The simplest model is the closed half-space with its standard flat metric . Let be an asymptotically flat manifold with decay rate , and let and denote its scalar curvature and boundary mean curvature. Its mass is denoted by . Positive mass conjecture. If is asymptotically flat with decay rate as above and satisfies and , then
Equality occurs if and only if is isometric to . This is the boundary analogue of the positive mass theorem and is expected to give rigidity of the flat half-space in the zero-mass case; the supplied source does not establish the conjecture's resolution.
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Sergio Almaraz, Ezequiel Barbosa and Levi Lopes de Lima, “A positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat manifolds with a non-compact boundary”, arXiv:1407.0673 (2014).
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