Stability of the positive mass theorem for graphical hypersurfaces of Euclidean space

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Abstract: The rigidity of the positive mass theorem states that the only complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature and zero mass is Euclidean space. We prove a corresponding stability theorem for spaces that can be realized as graphical hypersurfaces in mathbbRn+1. Specifically, for an asymptotically flat graphical hypersurface MnsubsetmathbbRn+1 of nonnegative scalar curvature (satisfying certain technical conditions), there is a horizontal hyperplane PisubsetmathbbRn+1 such that the flat distance between M and Pi in any ball of radius ho can be bounded purely in terms of n, ho, and the mass of M. In particular, this means that if the masses of a sequence of such graphs approach zero, then the sequence weakly converges (in the sense of currents, after a suitable vertical normalization) to a flat plane in mathbbRn+1. This result generalizes some of the earlier findings of the second author and C. Sormani and provides some evidence for a conjecture stated there.









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