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On the near-equality case of the positive mass theorem (English)
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20 May 2009
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The positive mass conjecture states that any complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature has nonnegative mass. Moreover, the equality case of the positive mass conjecture states that in the above situation, if the mass is zero, then the Riemannian manifold must be Euclidean space. The positive mass conjecture was proved by R. Schoen and S. T. Yau for all manifolds of dimension less than \(8\), and it was proved by E. Witten for all spin manifolds. In the present paper, the author considers complete asymptotically flat manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature which are also harmonically flat in an end. He shows that whenever the positive mass theorem holds, any appropriately normalized sequence of such manifolds whose masses converge to zero must have metrics that uniformly converge to the Euclidean metric outside a compact region. This result is an ingredient in a proof, coauthored with H. Bray, of the Riemannian Penrose inequality in dimensions less than \(8\).
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positive mass conjecture
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complete asymptotically flat manifold
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scalar curvature
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