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Rigidity of Hawking mass for surfaces in three manifolds

Differential Geometry 2018-03-16 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

It is well-know that Hawking mass is nonnegative for a stable constant mean curvature (CMCCMC) sphere in three manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature. R. Bartnik proposed the rigidity problem of Hawking mass of stable CMCCMC spheres. In this paper, we show partial rigidity results of Hawking mass for stable CMCCMC spheres in asymptotic flat (AFAF) manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. If the Hawking mass of a nearly round stable CMCCMC surface vanishes, then the surface must be standard sphere in R3\mathbb{R}^3 and the interior of the surface is flat. The similar results also hold for asymptotic hyperbolic manifolds. A complete AF manifold has small or large isoperimetric surface with zero Hawking mass must be flat. We will use the mean-field equation and monotonicity of Hawking mass as well as rigidity results of Y. Shi in our proof.

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@article{arxiv.1703.02352,
  title  = {Rigidity of Hawking mass for surfaces in three manifolds},
  author = {Jiacheng Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02352},
  year   = {2018}
}

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