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Title: The 1/H Flow and the Hawking-Penrose Conjecture
Speaker: Professor Thomas Ilmanen
Speaker Info: Northwestern University
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The Hawking-Penrose conjecture of general relativity, in its Riemannian form, states that the ADM mass (gravity flux at infinity) bounds the area of each horizon in an asymptotically flat 3-manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature. We prove this using the -1/H flow.