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A rigidity result for the graph case of the Penrose inequality

Differential Geometry 2021-07-30 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this note we prove a global rigidity result for asymptotically flat, scalar flat Euclidean hypersurfaces with a minimal horizon lying in a hyperplane, under a natural ellipticity condition. As a consequence we obtain, in the context of the Riemannian Penrose conjecture, a local rigidity result for the family of exterior Schwarzschild solutions (viewed as graphs in Euclidean space).

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@article{arxiv.1205.1132,
  title  = {A rigidity result for the graph case of the Penrose inequality},
  author = {Levi Lopes de Lima and Frederico Girão},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.1132},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages; abstract and introduction rewritten; minor corrections; references added; this posting has been superseded by arXiv:2107.03037, which handles the general pure Lovelock case