On The Capacity of Surfaces in Manifolds with Nonnegative Scalar Curvature

dc.creatorBray, Hubert
dc.creatorMiao, Pengzi
dc.date2007-07-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:50:33Z
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dc.descriptionGiven a surface in an asymptotically flat 3-manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature, we derive an upper bound for the capacity of the surface in terms of the area of the surface and the Willmore functional of the surface. The capacity of a surface is defined to be the energy of the harmonic function which equals 0 on the surface and goes to 1 at infinity. Even in the special case of Euclidean space, this is a new estimate. More generally, equality holds precisely for a spherically symmetric sphere in a spatial Schwarzschild 3-manifold. As applications, we obtain inequalities relating the capacity of the surface to the Hawking mass of the surface and the total mass of the asymptotically flat manifold.
dc.description18 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3337
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3337
dc.identifierInvent. math. 172, 459-475 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1007/s00222-007-0102-x
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/164980
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subject83C99, 53C20
dc.titleOn The Capacity of Surfaces in Manifolds with Nonnegative Scalar Curvature
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