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In this paper, we will show that the limit of the Brown–York mass of a family of convex revolution surfaces in an asymptotically Schwarzschild manifold is the ADM mass.
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Communicated by John M. Lee.
Research partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10901072) and GDNSF (9451503101004122).
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Fan, XQ., Kwong, KK. The Brown–York Mass of Revolution Surfaces in Asymptotically Schwarzschild Manifolds. J Geom Anal 21, 527–542 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-010-9157-9
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