Paper · May 1, 2017

Inverse Mean Curvature Flow and the Stability of the Positive Mass Theorem and Riemannian Penrose Inequality Under Metric Convergence

Brian Allen

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:1705.00591v4
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Abstract

We study the stability of the Positive Mass Theorem (PMT) and the Riemannian Penrose Inequality (RPI) in the case where a region of an asymptotically flat manifold can be foliated by a smooth solution of Inverse Mean Curvature Flow (IMCF) which is uniformly controlled. We consider a sequence of regions of asymptotically flat manifolds , foliated by a smooth solution to IMCF which is uniformly controlled, and if and then converges to a flat annulus with respect to metric convergence. If instead and then we show that converges to a topological annulus portion of the Schwarzschild metric with respect to metric convergence.

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Submitted
May 1, 2017
Last revised
Dec 20, 2017 (v4)
Subjects
math.DG
Journal
Annales Henri Poincare, April 2018, Volume 19, Issue 4, p. 1283-1306
DOI
10.1007/s00023-017-0641-7

Comments: 31 pages, Lemma 2.10 added, typos corrected. Final version to appear in Annales Henri Poincare

Mean curvature flowOther curvature flowsInverse mean curvature flowStability & uniquenessBoundaries & non-compactGeometric inequalitiesPhysics

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