scholarly journals Isoperimetry, Scalar Curvature, and Mass in Asymptotically Flat Riemannian 3‐Manifolds

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-905
Author(s):  
Otis Chodosh ◽  
Michael Eichmair ◽  
Yuguang Shi ◽  
Haobin Yu
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (767) ◽  
pp. 161-191
Author(s):  
Otis Chodosh ◽  
Michael Eichmair

AbstractWe extend the Lyapunov–Schmidt analysis of outlying stable constant mean curvature spheres in the work of S. Brendle and the second-named author [S. Brendle and M. Eichmair, Isoperimetric and Weingarten surfaces in the Schwarzschild manifold, J. Differential Geom. 94 2013, 3, 387–407] to the “far-off-center” regime and to include general Schwarzschild asymptotics. We obtain sharp existence and non-existence results for large stable constant mean curvature spheres that depend delicately on the behavior of scalar curvature at infinity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (768) ◽  
pp. 55-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Mantoulidis ◽  
Pengzi Miao ◽  
Luen-Fai Tam

AbstractWe derive new inequalities between the boundary capacity of an asymptotically flat 3-manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature and boundary quantities that relate to quasi-local mass; one relates to Brown–York mass and the other is new. We argue by recasting the setup to the study of mean-convex fill-ins with nonnegative scalar curvature and, in the process, we consider fill-ins with singular metrics, which may have independent interest. Among other things, our work yields new variational characterizations of Riemannian Schwarzschild manifolds and new comparison results for surfaces in them.


Author(s):  
Lan-Hsuan Huang ◽  
Dan A. Lee ◽  
Christina Sormani

AbstractThe rigidity of the Positive Mass Theorem states that the only complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature and


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (756) ◽  
pp. 227-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Jauregui ◽  
Dan A. Lee

AbstractGiven a sequence of asymptotically flat 3-manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature with outermost minimal boundary, converging in the pointed {C^{0}} Cheeger–Gromov sense to an asymptotically flat limit space, we show that the total mass of the limit is bounded above by the liminf of the total masses of the sequence. In other words, total mass is lower semicontinuous under such convergence. In order to prove this, we use Huisken’s isoperimetric mass concept, together with a modified weak mean curvature flow argument. We include a brief discussion of Huisken’s work before explaining our extension of that work. The results are all specific to three dimensions.


Author(s):  
Yaohua Wang

In this paper, we will consider 4-dimensional manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and constant mean curvature (CMC) boundary. For compact manifolds with boundary, the influence of the nonnegativity of the region scalar curvature to the geometry of the boundary is considered. Some inequalities are established for manifolds with inner boundary and outer boundary. Even for compact manifolds without inner boundary, we can obtain some inequalities involving the geometric quantities of the boundary and give some obstruction. We also discuss the 4-dimensional asymptotically flat extension of the 3-dimensional Bartnik data with CMC boundary and provide the upper bound of the Bartnik mass.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (13) ◽  
pp. 1940006
Author(s):  
Pengzi Miao ◽  
Naqing Xie

We construct asymptotically flat, scalar flat extensions of Bartnik data [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a metric of positive Gauss curvature on a two-sphere [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] is a function that is either positive or identically zero on [Formula: see text], such that the mass of the extension can be made arbitrarily close to the half area radius of [Formula: see text]. In the case of [Formula: see text], the result gives an analog of a theorem of Mantoulidis and Schoen [On the Bartnik mass of apparent horizons, Class. Quantum Grav. 32(20) (2015) 205002, 16 pp.], but with extensions that have vanishing scalar curvature. In the context of initial data sets in general relativity, the result produces asymptotically flat, time-symmetric, vacuum initial data with an apparent horizon [Formula: see text], for any metric [Formula: see text] with positive Gauss curvature, such that the mass of the initial data is arbitrarily close to the optimal value in the Riemannian Penrose inequality. The method we use is the Shi–Tam type metric construction from [Positive mass theorem and the boundary behaviors of compact manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature, J. Differential Geom. 62(1) (2002) 79–125] and a refined Shi–Tam monotonicity, found by the first named author in [On a localized Riemannian Penrose inequality, Commun. Math. Phys. 292(1) (2009) 271–284].


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