The Green's function mass conjecture for the fractional Yamabe problem

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Let (X,g+)(X,g_+) be a conformally compact Einstein manifold with compactification (X,g)(\overline X,\overline g) and boundary NN, and suppose that Λγ(N,[gN])>0\Lambda^\gamma(N,[\overline g|_N])>0. Let GpG_p be the positive Green's function associated to a point pNp\in N. If either (N,[gN])(N,[\overline g|_N]) is locally conformally flat or n=2n=2, then, for qXq\in\overline X near pp, GpG_p has the expansion

Gp(q)=cn,γdg(q,p)2γn+A+O(dg(q,p)min{1,2γ}),G_p(q)=c_{n,\gamma}d_{\overline g}(q,p)^{2\gamma-n}+A+O'(d_{\overline g}(q,p)^{\min\{1,2\gamma\}}),

where ARA\in\mathbb R, cn,γ>0c_{n,\gamma}>0, and dg(,)d_{\overline g}(\cdot,\cdot) is the distance function. Green's function mass conjecture. The constant AA satisfies A0A\geq 0, with equality if and only if (X,g)(\overline X,\overline g) is conformally diffeomorphic to the standard unit ball in Rn+1\mathbb R^{n+1}. The assertion is presented in the context of the fractional Yamabe problem and is attributed to Kim, Musso, and Wei; no resolution is supplied in the source.

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Sergio Almaraz, Levi Lopes de Lima and Shaodong Wang, “A mass-type invariant for smooth metric measure spaces and its relation with the fractional Yamabe problem”, arXiv:2606.23248 (2026).

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