Intrinsic flat 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 study the stability of this statement for spaces that can be realized as graphical hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. We prove (under certain technical hypotheses) that if a sequence of complete asymptotically flat graphs of nonnegative scalar curvature has mass approaching zero, then the sequence must converge to Euclidean space in the pointed intrinsic flat sense. The appendix includes a new Gromov-Hausdorff and intrinsic flat compactness theorem for sequences of metric spaces with uniform Lipschitz bounds on their metrics.


The authors consider the class of uniformly asymptotically flat graphical hypersurfaces of Euclidean space which have uniformly bounded depth and non-negative scalar curvature. The authors show that if a sequence of such elements has mass approaching 0, then the sequence converges to a Euclidean space in the pointed intrinsic flat sense. This means that if the ADM mass is small, then the manifold is close to a Euclidean space. The introduction contains a statement of the main results. Section 2 provides the background. Main results from previous papers are reviewed here. Section 3 deals with limiting results. Section 4 provides the required estimates of a geometrical nature. Section 5 treats bi-Lipschitz maps. Section 6 uses these results to prove the one of the main results and Section 7 uses pointed convergence to prove the other main result. Appendix A provides a theorem concerning intrinsic flat limits of integral current spaces.




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