Let (M, g) be a complete 3-dimensional asymptotically flat manifold with everywhere positive scalar curvature. We prove that, given a compact subset K  M, all volume preserving stable constant mean curvature surfaces of sufficiently large area will avoid K. This complements the results of G. Huisken and S.-T. Yau [17] and of J. Qing and G. Tian [26] on the uniqueness of large volume preserving stable constant mean curvature spheres in initial data sets that are asymptotically close to Schwarzschild with mass m > 0. The analysis in [17] and [26] takes place in the asymptotic regime of M. Here we adapt ideas from the minimal surface proof of the positive mass theorem [32] by R. Schoen and S.-T. Yau and develop geometric properties of volume preserving stable constant mean curvature surfaces to handle surfaces that run through the part of M that is far from Euclidean.

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A function$G$in a Bergman space$A$^{$p$}, 0<$p$<∞, in the unit disk$D$is called$A$^{$p$}-inner if |$G$|^{$p$}−1 annihilates all bounded harmonic functions in$D$. Extending a recent result by Hedenmalm for$p$=2, we show (Thm. 2) that the unique compactly-supported solution Φ of the problem $$\Delta \Phi = \chi _D (|G|^p - 1),$$ where χ_{$D$}denotes the characteristic function of$D$and$G$is an arbitrary$A$^{$p$}-inner function, is continuous in$C$, and, moreover, has a vanishing normal derivative in a weak sense on the unit circle. This allows us to extend all of Hedenmalm's results concerning the invariant subspaces in the Bergman space$A$^{2}to a general$A$^{$p$}-setting.