Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
The Riemannian Penrose inequality

 

Tom Ilmanen

ETH
 
 

MIT

Room 2-190

4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16, 2000


 
 
Abstract:   The Penrose conjecture of general relativity (Riemannian case) states the following: in an asymptotically flat 3-manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature, the ADM mass bounds the area of each outermost minimal surface. Roughly speaking, the surface area of a black hole can be estimated by the total mass. A corollary is the positive mass theorem of Schoen and Yau.
See http://www.math.ethz.ch/~ilmanen/pub.html.  


 
Home Web page:  Alexandru I. Suciu  Created: March 1, 2000   
Comments to:  alexsuciu@neu.edu URL: http://www.math.neu.edu/bhmn/ilmanen.html