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We provide estimates on the Bartnik mass of constant mean curvature surfaces which are diffeomorphic to spheres and have positive mean curvature. We prove that the Bartnik mass is bounded from above by the Hawking mass and a new notion we call the asphericity mass. The asphericity mass is defined by applying Hamilton’s modified Ricci flow and depends only upon the restricted metric of the surface and not on its mean curvature. The theorem is proven by studying a class of asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds foliated by surfaces satisfying Hamilton’s modified Ricci flow with prescribed scalar curvature. Such manifolds were first constructed by the first author in her dissertation conducted under the supervision of M. T. Wang. We make a further study of this class of manifolds which we denote Ham3, bounding the ADM masses of such manifolds and analyzing the rigid case when the Hawking mass of the inner surface of the manifold agrees with its ADM mass.
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06 March 2020
Hyun-Chul Jang observed that we dropped a term in our calculations in [1].
06 March 2020
Hyun-Chul Jang observed that we dropped a term in our calculations in [1].
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Communicated by James A. Isenberg.
Dedicated to Richard Hamilton on the occasion of his 70th birthday
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Lin, CY., Sormani, C. Bartnik’s Mass and Hamilton’s Modified Ricci Flow. Ann. Henri Poincaré 17, 2783–2800 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-016-0483-8
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