Failure of Bartnik mass minimization for nonembedded locally flat balls

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Let F:BˉR3F:\bar B\rightarrow\mathbb R^3 be a smooth immersion of a 3-ball that is not an embedding, and equip the ball with the pulled-back Euclidean metric F(gEucl)F^*(g_{\mathrm{Eucl}}). Failure of Bartnik mass minimization for nonembedded locally flat balls. The region (Bˉ,F(gEucl))(\bar B,F^*(g_{\mathrm{Eucl}})) admits no admissible extension realizing its Bartnik mass. The paper notes that the corresponding stronger version of the Bartnik mass conjecture is disproved for a particular locally flat ball; this general formulation is presented as a conjecture and its status is not established in the source.

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Michael T. Anderson and Jeffrey L. Jauregui, “Embeddings, immersions and the Bartnik quasi-local mass conjectures”, arXiv:1611.08755 (2019).

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