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In this paper, we show that for a sequence of orientable complete uniformly asymptotically flat 3-manifolds \((M_i, g_i)\) with nonnegative scalar curvature and ADM mass \(m(g_i)\) tending to zero, by subtracting some open subsets \(Z_i\), whose boundary area satisfies \(\textrm{Area}(\partial Z_i) \le C m(g_i)^{\frac{1}{2}- \varepsilon }\), for any base point \(p_i \in M_i{\setminus } Z_i\), \((M_i{\setminus } Z_i, g_i, p_i)\) converges to the Euclidean space \(({\mathbb {R}}^3, g_E, 0)\) in the \(C^0\) modulo negligible volume sense. Moreover, if we assume that the Ricci curvature is uniformly bounded from below, then \((M_i, g_i, p_i)\) converges to \(({\mathbb {R}}^3, g_E, 0)\) in the pointed Gromov–Hausdorff topology.
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Dans cet article, nous démontrons que pour une suite de variétés tridimensionnelles orientables, complètes et uniformément asymptotiquement plates \((M_i, g_i)\) avec courbure scalaire non négative et dont la masse ADM \(m(g_i)\) tend vers zéro, en enlevant certains sous-ensembles ouverts \(Z_i\), dont la zone de frontière satisfait \(\textrm{Aire}(\partial Z_i) \le C \cdot m(g_i)^{\frac{1}{2} - \varepsilon }\), pour tout point de base \(p_i \in M_i {\setminus } Z_i\), le triplet \((M_i {\setminus } Z_i, g_i, p_i)\) converge vers l’espace euclidien \(({\mathbb {R}}^3, g_E, 0)\) dans le sens \(C^0\), modulo un volume négligeable. De plus, si nous supposons que la courbure de Ricci est uniformément bornée inférieurement, alors le triplet \((M_i, g_i, p_i)\) converge vers \(({\mathbb {R}}^3, g_E, 0)\) pour la topologie de Gromov–Hausdorff pointée.
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The author would like to express gratitude to his advisor, Prof. Xiuxiong Chen, for his encouragement and support. The author thanks Prof. Hubert Bray, Prof. Marcus Khuri and Prof. Antoine Song for their interests in this work and valuable discussions, and Hanbing Fang for introducing the reference [11]. The author also thanks the referee for providing very helpful and detailed comments and suggestions that led to the new Definition 1.1.
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Dong, C. Some stability results of positive mass theorem for uniformly asymptotically flat 3-manifolds. Ann. Math. Québec (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40316-024-00226-7
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