Existence of a Bartnik minimal mass extension via intrinsic-flat compactness

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Let Ω0\Omega_0 be a region and let PM(Ω0)\mathcal{PM}(\Omega_0) denote the class of asymptotically flat extensions containing an isometric image of Ω0\Omega_0. Bartnik extension compactness conjecture. There exists a sequence

Mj∈PM(Ω0),mADM(Mj)→mB(Ω0),M_j\in\mathcal{PM}(\Omega_0),\qquad m_{ADM}(M_j)\to m_B(\Omega_0),

with a limit Mj→M∞M_j\to M_\infty such that

mADM(M∞)=mB(Ω0)=lim⁡j→∞mADM(Mj),m_{ADM}(M_\infty)=m_B(\Omega_0)=\lim_{j\to\infty}m_{ADM}(M_j),

where M∞M_\infty is asymptotically flat, smooth, scalar flat, and static. The proposed approach addresses existence of the minimal mass extension, but the required compactness and asymptotic-flatness control remain open.

References

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Christina Sormani, “Scalar Curvature and Intrinsic Flat Convergence”, arXiv:1606.08949 (2016).

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