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Asymptotically flat extensions of CMC Bartnik data

Differential Geometry 2017-04-18 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Let gg be a metric on the 22-sphere S2\mathbb{S}^2 with positive Gaussian curvature and HH be a positive constant. Under suitable conditions on (g,H)(g, H), we construct smooth, asymptotically flat 33-manifolds MM with non-negative scalar curvature, with outer-minimizing boundary isometric to (S2,g)(\mathbb{S}^2, g) and having mean curvature HH, such that near infinity MM is isometric to a spatial Schwarzschild manifold whose mass mm can be made arbitrarily close to a constant multiple of the Hawking mass of (S2,g,H)(\mathbb{S}^2,g,H). Moreover, this constant multiplicative factor depends only on (g,H)(g, H) and tends to 11 as HH tends to 00. The result provides a new upper bound of the Bartnik mass associated to such boundary data.

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@article{arxiv.1612.05241,
  title  = {Asymptotically flat extensions of CMC Bartnik data},
  author = {Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco and Carla Cederbaum and Stephen McCormick and Pengzi Miao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05241},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages. v3: updated to agree with published version

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