The positive mass conjecture for asymptotically flat manifolds with boundary

The simplest model is the closed half-space R+n\mathbb R^n_+ with its standard flat metric δ\delta. Let (M,g)(M,g) be an asymptotically flat manifold with decay rate τ>(n2)/2\tau>(n-2)/2, and let RgR_g and HgH_g denote its scalar curvature and boundary mean curvature. Its mass is denoted by m(M,g)\mathfrak m_{(M,g)}. Positive mass conjecture. If (M,g)(M,g) is asymptotically flat with decay rate τ>(n2)/2\tau>(n-2)/2 as above and satisfies Rg0R_g\geq 0 and Hg0H_g\geq 0, then

m(M,g)0.\mathfrak m_{(M,g)}\geq 0.

Equality occurs if and only if (M,g)(M,g) is isometric to (R+n,δ)(\mathbb R^n_+,\delta). 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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