TY - JOUR T1 - On Conical Asymptotically Flat Manifolds AU - Li , Mingyang AU - Sun , Song JO - Journal of Mathematical Study VL - 2 SP - 188 EP - 210 PY - 2025 DA - 2025/06 SN - 58 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jms.v58n2.25.05 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jms/24210.html KW - Asymptotically flat, collapsing, gravitational instanton. AB -
We prove a conjecture of Petrunin and Tuschmann on the non-existence of asymptotically flat 4-manifolds asymptotic to the half plane. We also survey recent progress and questions concerning gravitational instantons, which serve as our motivation for studying this question.