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Llarull type theorems on complete manifolds with positive scalar curvature

Differential Geometry 2024-03-25 v3

Abstract

In this paper, without assuming that manifolds are spin, we prove that if a compact orientable, and connected Riemannian manifold (Mn,g)(M^{n},g) with scalar curvature Rg6R_{g}\geq 6 admits a non-zero degree and 11-Lipschitz map to (S3×Tn3,gS3+gTn3)(\mathbb{S}^{3}\times \mathbb{T}^{n-3},g_{\mathbb{S}^{3}}+g_{\mathbb{T}^{n-3}}), for 4n74\leq n\leq 7, then (Mn,g)(M^{n},g) is locally isometric to S3×Tn3\mathbb{S}^{3}\times\mathbb{T}^{n-3}. Similar results are established for noncompact cases as (S3×Rn3,gS3+gRn3)(\mathbb{S}^{3}\times \mathbb{R}^{n-3},g_{\mathbb{S}^{3}}+g_{\mathbb{R}^{n-3}}) being model spaces (see Theorem \ref{noncompactrigidity1}, Theorem \ref{noncompactrigidity2}, Theorem \ref{noncompactrigidity3}, Theorem \ref{noncompactrigidity4}). We observe that the results differ significantly when n=4n=4 compared to n5n\geq 5. Our results imply that the ϵ\epsilon-gap length extremality of the standard S3\mathbb{S}^3 is stable under the Riemannian product with Rm\mathbb{R}^m, 1m41\leq m\leq 4 (see D3D_{3}. Question in Gromov's paper \cite{Gromov2017}, p.153).

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@article{arxiv.2310.10173,
  title  = {Llarull type theorems on complete manifolds with positive scalar curvature},
  author = {Tianze Hao and Yuguang Shi and Yukai Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10173},
  year   = {2024}
}

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