The no-additional-components conjecture for outermost regions

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Let M′M' be an outermost region of a geometrostatic manifold, written as

M′=R3∖⋃i=−n′nΩi,M'={\mathbb R}^3\setminus\bigcup_{i=-n'}^n\Omega_i,

where each Ωi\Omega_i is diffeomorphic to a three-ball, has stable minimal boundary Σi=∂Ωi\Sigma_i=\partial\Omega_i, and every component Ωα\Omega_\alpha in the outermost-region description is one of these regions. The no-additional-components conjecture. For every Ωα\Omega_\alpha there exists an index i∈{1,…,n}i\in\{1,\ldots,n\} such that pi∈Ωαp_i\in\Omega_\alpha and

M′=R3∖⋃i=1nΩi.M'={\mathbb R}^3\setminus\bigcup_{i=1}^n\Omega_i.

Thus every component removed from the outermost region should contain at least one distinguished point pip_i, so no additional components with indices i≤0i\leq 0 occur. The claim concerns the topology of outermost regions in this setting and is stated without a resolution in the source.

References

Primary source

Christina Sormani and Iva Stavrov Allen, “Geometrostatic Manifolds of Small ADM Mass”, arXiv:1707.03008 (2018).

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