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On Area Comparison and Rigidity Involving the Scalar Curvature

Differential Geometry 2013-09-05 v1

Abstract

We prove a splitting theorem for Riemannian n-manifolds with scalar curvature bounded below by a negative constant and containing certain area-minimising hypersurfaces (Theorem 3). Thus we generalise [25,Theorem 3] by Nunes. This splitting result follows from an area comparison theorem for hypersurfaces with non-positive Sigma-constant (Theorem 4) that generalises [23, Theorem 2]. Finally, we will address the optimality of these comparison and splitting results by explicitly constructing several examples.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1050,
  title  = {On Area Comparison and Rigidity Involving the Scalar Curvature},
  author = {Vlad Moraru},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1050},
  year   = {2013}
}