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Critical metrics of the volume functional on compact three-manifolds with smooth boundary

Differential Geometry 2016-06-23 v2

Abstract

We study the space of smooth Riemannian structures on compact three-manifolds with boundary that satisfies a critical point equation associated with a boundary value problem, for simplicity, Miao-Tam critical metrics. We provide an estimate to the area of the boundary of Miao-Tam critical metrics on compact three-manifolds. In addition, we obtain a B\"ochner type formula which enables us to show that a Miao-Tam critical metric on a compact three-manifold with positive scalar curvature must be isometric to a geodesic ball in S3.\Bbb{S}^3.

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@article{arxiv.1603.05456,
  title  = {Critical metrics of the volume functional on compact three-manifolds with smooth boundary},
  author = {R. Batista and R. Diógenes and M. Ranieri and E. Ribeiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05456},
  year   = {2016}
}

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to appear in The Journal of Geometric Analysis