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Positive mass theorem and free boundary minimal surfaces

Differential Geometry 2018-11-16 v1

Abstract

Built on a recent work of Almaraz, Barbosa, de Lima on positive mass theorems on asymptotically flat manifods with a noncompact boundary, we apply free boundary minimal surface techniques to prove their positive mass theorem and study the existence of positive scalar curvature metrics with mean convex boundary on a connected sum of the form (Tn1×[0,1])#M0(\mathbb{T}^{n-1}\times[0,1])\#M_0.

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@article{arxiv.1811.06254,
  title  = {Positive mass theorem and free boundary minimal surfaces},
  author = {Xiaoxiang Chai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.06254},
  year   = {2018}
}

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25 pages, 2 figures; comments welcome