Thomas Körber - Foliations of asymptotically flat 3-manifolds by stable constant mean curvature spheres

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 - 13:00
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Thomas Körber
U Vienna

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Stable constant mean curvature spheres encode important information on the asymptotic geometry of initial data sets for isolated gravitational systems. In this talk, I will present a short new proof (joint with M. Eichmair) based on Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction of the existence of an asymptotic foliation of such an initial data set by stable constant mean curvature spheres. In the case where the scalar curvature is non-negative, our method also shows that the leaves of this foliation are the only large stable constant mean curvature spheres that enclose the center of the initial data set.

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