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Motivated by problems related to quasi-local mass in general relativity, we study the static metric extension conjecture proposed by R. Bartnik [4]. We show that, for any metric on ¯B 1 that is close enough to the Euclidean metric and has reflection invariant boundary data, there always exists an asymptotically flat and scalar flat static metric extension in M=ℝ3∖B 1 such that it satisfies Bartnik's geometric boundary condition [4] on ∂B 1.
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Miao, P. On Existence of Static Metric Extensions in General Relativity. Commun. Math. Phys. 241, 27–46 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-003-0925-2
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