The rigidity statement in the Horowitz-Myers conjecture

Time：Fri., 09:00-10:00 am, Oct. 10, 2025

Venue：Jingzhai 105, Tsinghua University

Organizer：Bowen Zhao

Speaker：Simon Brendle

Hyperbolic Mass

Organizers：

Bowen Zhao

Speaker：

Simon Brendle Columbia University

Time：

Fri., 09:00-10:00 am, Oct. 10, 2025

Venue：

Jingzhai 105, Tsinghua University

Online：

Zoom 518 868 7656 (BIMSA)

Title:

The rigidity statement in the Horowitz-Myers conjecture

Abstract:

We discuss an alternative proof of the Horowitz-Myers conjecture in dimension 3 \leq N \leq 7. Moreover, we show that a metric that achieves equality in the Horowitz-Myers conjecture is locally isometric to a Horowitz-Myers metric. This is joint work with Pei-Ken Hung. https://bimsa.net/talk.html?id=62983

DATEOctober 9, 2025

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