A Jang equation approach to the Penrose inequality

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2010.27.741zbMATH Open1193.53169arXiv0910.4785OpenAlexW2963730935MaRDI QIDQ972050FDOQ972050

Authors: Hubert L. Bray, Marcus A. Khuri 

Publication date: 25 May 2010

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a generalized version of the Jang equation, designed for the general case of the Penrose Inequality in the setting of an asymptotically flat space-like hypersurface of a spacetime satisfying the dominat energy condition. The appropriate existence and regularity results are established in the special case of spherically symmetric Cauchy data, and are applied to give a new proof of the general Penrose Inequality for these data sets. When appropriately coupled with an inverse mean curvature flow, analogous existence and regularity results for the associated system of equations in the nonspherical setting would yield a proof of the full Penrose Conjecture. Thus it remains as an important and challenging open problem to determine whether this system does indeed admit the desired solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4785

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zbMATH Keywords

Penrose inequalityspherical symmetryinverse mean curvature flowspace-like hypersurfacesgeneralized Jang equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Black holes (83C57) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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