Yau's variant of the Penrose conjecture
Yau's variant of the Penrose conjecture
Let , and let be an asymptotically flat manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature containing an outermost minimal surface with induced metric . Let
be the eigenvalues of the operator , where is the Gauss curvature of . Yau's variant of the Penrose conjecture. The ADM mass should satisfy
This proposed inequality is a variant of the Penrose inequality involving the first positive eigenvalue of a curvature-weighted Laplacian. The paper's abstract states that it gives a counterexample to this recently conjectured variant, so the conjecture is refuted.
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Primary source
Sven Hirsch and Yipeng Wang, “On a Variant of the Penrose Conjecture”, arXiv:2604.26046 (2026).
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