Lee–Sormani intrinsic flat stability conjecture for asymptotically flat manifolds

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Let MjM_j be asymptotically flat nn-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and no interior closed minimal surfaces, with either no boundary or boundary equal to an outermost minimizing surface. Fix A0>0A_0>0, and choose pjinΣjp_jin\Sigma_j on a special surface Σj⊂Mj\Sigma_j\subset M_j satisfying

Vol⁡n−1(Σj)=A0.\operatorname{Vol}_{n-1}(\Sigma_j)=A_0.

If

mADM(Mj)→0,\mathrm{m}_{\mathrm{ADM}}(M_j)\to 0,

then (Mj,pj)(M_j,p_j) converges to Euclidean space (En,0)(\mathbb{E}^n,0) in the pointed intrinsic flat sense. That is, for almost every D>0D>0,

dF(Bpj(D)⊂Mj,B0(D)⊂En)→0.d_{\mathcal{F}}\left(B_{p_j}(D)\subset M_j,B_0(D)\subset\mathbb{E}^n\right)\to 0.

This conjecture concerns intrinsic-flat stability of the rigidity case of the positive mass theorem. The stated version is false without careful selection of the points pjp_j: increasingly thin wells can contain the chosen points and prevent convergence to Euclidean space.

References

Primary source

Lan-Hsuan Huang, Dan A. Lee and Christina Sormani, “Intrinsic flat stability of the positive mass theorem for graphical hypersurfaces of Euclidean space”, arXiv:1408.4319 (2015).

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