Rigidity of Riemannian Penrose inequality with corners and its implications (Q820527)

The authors study suitable singular metrics attaining the optimal value in the Riemannian Penrose inequality. They demonstrate that the singular metric is necessarily smooth in properly specified coordinates. Applying this fact to hypersurfaces enclosing the horizon in a spatial Schwarzschild manifold, the result gives the rigidity of isometric hypersurfaces with the same mean curvature.