English
Related papers

Related papers: Rigidity of free boundary MOTS

200 papers

In this article, we prove new rigidity results for compact Riemannian spin manifolds with boundary whose scalar curvature is bounded from below by a non-positive constant. In particular, we obtain generalizations of a result of Hang-Wang…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Simon Raulot

In work with P. Chru\'sciel, L. Nguyen and T.-T. Paetz [8], a positive mass theorem was obtained for asymptotically locally hyperbolic manifolds with boundary, having a toroidal end. The proof made use of properties of marginally outer…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Gregory J. Galloway , Tin-Yau Tsang

We prove a local minimizing property for strictly stable free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces in the relative current setting. Let $\Sigma^n$ be a compact, two-sided, properly embedded free-boundary minimal hypersurface in a compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Xiaoxiang Jiao , Hangyue Zhu

We concern $C^2$-compactness of the solution set of the boundary Yamabe problem on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary provided that their dimensions are $4$, $5$ or $6$. By conducting a quantitative analysis of a linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Seunghyeok Kim , Monica Musso , Juncheng Wei

We single out a notion of staticity which applies to any domain in hyperbolic space whose boundary is a non-compact totally umbilical hypersurface. For (time-symmetric) initial data sets modeled at infinity on any of these latter examples,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Sergio Almaraz , Levi Lopes de Lima

Recently a simple proof of the generalizations of Hawking's black hole topology theorem and its application to topological black holes for higher dimensional ($n\geq 4$) spacetimes was given \cite{rnew}. By applying the associated new line…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-29 István Rácz

Our work proves rigidity theorems for initial data sets associated with compact smooth spin manifolds with boundary and with compact convex polytopes, subject to the dominant energy condition. For manifolds with smooth boundary, this is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Christian Baer , Simon Brendle , Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow , Bernhard Hanke

We prove that a marginally outer trapped surface (MOTS) can form as a result of Einsteinian evolution in pure vacuum spacetime starting from regular initial data free of MOTSs due to pure boundary effects. We adapt a Cauchy-double-null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-19 Puskar Mondal , Shing-Tung Yau

Given a surface $\Sigma$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ diffeomorphic to $S^2$, Struwe (Acta Math., 1988) proved that for almost every $H$ below the mean curvature of the smallest sphere enclosing $\Sigma$, there exists a branched immersed disk which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Da Rong Cheng

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian three-dimensional manifold with boundary. We prove the compactness of the set of scalar-flat metrics which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Sergio Almaraz , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Shaodong Wang

Let $M^n$, $n\ge3$, be a compact differentiable manifold with nonpositive Yamabe invariant $\sigma(M)$. Suppose $g_0$ is a continuous metric with $V(M, g_0)=1$, smooth outside a compact set $\Sigma$, and is in $W^{1,p}_{loc}$ for some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Yuguang Shi , Luen-Fai Tam

We prove in this paper that, under suitable coinditions on an initial data set, we can obtain Area and Curvature Estimates for simple marginally outer trapped surfaces (or MOTS). Using this estimates, we derive a Compactness Theorem for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-30 José M. Espinar

The study of stable minimal surfaces in Riemannian $3$-manifolds $(M, g)$ with non-negative scalar curvature has a rich history. In this paper, we prove rigidity of such surfaces when $(M, g)$ is asymptotically flat and has horizon…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Alessandro Carlotto , Otis Chodosh , Michael Eichmair

In this article we extend several foundational results of the theory of complete minimal surfaces of finite index in the Euclidean space to minimal surfaces in asymptotically flat manifolds and, more generally, to marginally outer-trapped…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Alessandro Carlotto

We prove rigidity results involving the Hawking mass for surfaces immersed in a $3$-dimensional, complete Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with non-negative scalar curvature (resp. with scalar curvature bounded below by $-6$). Roughly, the main…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Andrea Mondino , Aidan Templeton-Browne

Let $C$ be a strictly convex domain in a $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by a constant and let $\Sigma$ be a constant mean curvature surface with free boundary in $C$. We provide a pinching…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Sung-Hong Min , Keomkyo Seo

On a compact three-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove the compactness of the full set of conformal metrics with positive constant scalar curvature and constant mean curvature on the boundary. This involves a blow-up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

We prove a harmonic asymptotics density theorem for asymptotically flat initial data sets with compact boundary that satisfy the dominant energy condition. We use this to settle the spacetime positive mass theorem, with rigidity, for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Dan A. Lee , Martin Lesourd , Ryan Unger

Let $ X $ be an oriented, closed manifold with $ \dim X \geqslant 2 $. Let $ (Z, \partial Z) $ be an oriented, compact manifold with (possibly empty) smooth boundary and $ \dim Z \geqslant 2 $. In this article, we show that if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jie Xu

We show that the combination of nonnegative 2-intermediate Ricci Curvature and strict positivity of scalar curvature forces rigidity of two-sided free boundary stable minimal hypersurface in a 4-manifold with bounded geometry and weakly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Yujie Wu