Bartnik's stationary vacuum conjecture for mass minimizers
Bartnik's stationary vacuum conjecture for mass minimizers
Let be a compact initial data set with nonempty smooth boundary, satisfying the dominant energy condition, and let be a Bartnik mass minimizer for . Bartnik's stationary vacuum conjecture. The interior initial data should embed in a vacuum spacetime admitting a timelike Killing vector field; equivalently, should embed in a vacuum and strongly stationary spacetime. The conjecture concerns the expected geometric characterization of Bartnik mass minimizers; it was originally formulated in three dimensions and can naturally be posed in general dimensions. The pp-wave counterexamples discussed by Huang and Lee disprove it for zero Bartnik mass in dimensions .
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Primary source
Sven Hirsch and Lan-Hsuan Huang, “Monotonicity of Causal Killing Vectors and Geometry of ADM Mass Minimizers”, arXiv:2510.10306 (2025).
Additional references
8 papers in this index state this conjecture (2003–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2509.03478, arXiv:2206.00079, arXiv:2206.00082, arXiv:2103.15887, arXiv:2007.00593, arXiv:2007.05452, arXiv:math/0304259.
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