Alexandrov immersion obstruction conjecture for the Bartnik mass

Let ImmA(S2,R3)\operatorname{Imm}_{A}(S^2,\mathbb R^3) be the space of smooth Alexandrov immersed 22-spheres, and let I=ImmA(S2,R3)Emb(S2,R3)\mathcal I=\operatorname{Imm}_{A}(S^2,\mathbb R^3)\setminus\operatorname{Emb}(S^2,\mathbb R^3). For FIF\in\mathcal I, let (γ,H)(\gamma,H) be the metric and mean curvature induced by the Euclidean metric. Alexandrov immersion obstruction conjecture. Either

P(γ,H)=,\mathcal P_{(\gamma,H)}=\emptyset,

so that mB(γ,H)m_B(\gamma,H) is undefined, or mB(γ,H)m_B(\gamma,H) is not achieved by a static vacuum solution with boundary data (γ,H)(\gamma,H). This extends the known counterexamples from embedded spheres to general non-embedded Alexandrov immersions; the source presents it as open.

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Michael T. Anderson, “Recent progress and problems on the Bartnik quasi-local mass”, arXiv:1903.03822 (2019).

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