Bartnik's mass and Hamilton's modified Ricci flow

DOI10.1007/S00023-016-0483-8zbMATH Open1351.83010arXiv1408.5524OpenAlexW2952844098WikidataQ100331822 ScholiaQ100331822MaRDI QIDQ331472FDOQ331472

Authors: Chen-Yun Lin, Christina Sormani 

Publication date: 27 October 2016

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide estimates on the Bartnik mass of constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces which are diffeomorphic to spheres and have positive mean curvature. We prove that the Bartnik mass is bounded from above by the Hawking mass and a new notion we call the asphericity mass. The asphericity mass is defined by applying Hamilton's modified Ricci flow and depends only upon the restricted metric of the surface and not on its mean curvature. The theorem is proven by studying a class of asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds foliated by surfaces satisfying Hamilton's modified Ricci flow with prescribed scalar curvature. Such manifolds were first constructed by the first author in her dissertation conducted under the supervision of M.T. Wang. We make a further study of this class of manifolds bounding the ADM masses of such manifolds and analyzing the rigid case when the Hawking mass of the inner surface of the manifold agrees with its ADM mass. New in 2020: After this paper was published, Hyun-Chul Jang observed that we dropped a term in our calculations. Tracking the consequences throughout, we see that we need only slightly change the definition of the asphericity mass and then all statements of our theorems, propositions, and lemmas remain the same as the published version with slight revisions to the proofs. Pengzi Miao observed we needed an assumption on Gauss curvature in Theorem 1. We include these corrections and also some clarifications where they are needed in blue. Both Hyun-Chul Jang and Pengzi Miao have approved of our corrections and we have sent an erratum to the journal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5524

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zbMATH Keywords

mean curvatureADM massHawking mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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