Asymptotically flat extensions of CMC Bartnik data

Abstract: Let

g

be a metric on the

2

-sphere

m a t h b b S^{2}

with positive Gaussian curvature and

H

be a positive constant. Under suitable conditions on

(g, H)

, we construct smooth, asymptotically flat

3

-manifolds

M

with non-negative scalar curvature, with outer-minimizing boundary isometric to

(m a t h b b S^{2}, g)

and having mean curvature

H

, such that near infinity

M

is isometric to a spatial Schwarzschild manifold whose mass

m

can be made arbitrarily close to a constant multiple of the Hawking mass of

(m a t h b b S^{2}, g, H)

. Moreover, this constant multiplicative factor depends only on

(g, H)

and tends to

1

as

H

tends to

0

. The result provides a new upper bound of the Bartnik mass associated to such boundary data.

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