Equality of total inner and outer masses for exhausting legal surfaces

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Let (M3,g,h)(M^3,g,h) satisfy μJ\mu \ge |J|, and suppose there is a nested sequence of connected legal surfaces

Σi=DiM,1i<,\Sigma_i=\partial D_i\subset M,\qquad 1\le i<\infty,

with iDi=M\bigcup_iD_i=M and limΣi=\lim |\Sigma_i|=\infty. Here legal means outer-minimising and admitting an asymptotically flat extension satisfying μJ\mu \ge |J| outside the surface in which it remains outer-minimising. The legal-surface total-mass conjecture. Then

minnertotal=moutertotalR{}.m_{inner}^{total}=m_{outer}^{total}\in\mathbb{R}\cup\{\infty\}.

This conjecture addresses when the total mass interval is single-valued beyond the asymptotically flat setting. The supplied text presents it as a belief and gives no resolution evidence.

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Primary source

Hubert L. Bray and Piotr T. Chrusciel, “The Penrose Inequality”, arXiv:gr-qc/0312047 (2004).

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