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On local rigidity theorems with respect to the scalar curvature

Differential Geometry 2024-04-30 v9

Abstract

By using the Ricci flow, we study local rigidity theorems regarding scalar curvature, isoperimetric constant and best constant of L2L^2 logarithmic Sobolev inequality. Precisely, we prove that if a metric gg on an open set VV in an nn-dimensional Riemannian manifold satisfies VR(g)dvolg0  and  I(V)I(Rn), \int_V R(g) dvol_g \ge 0 \text{\ \ and\ \ } I(V)\ge I(\mathbb{R}^n), or VR(g)dvolg0  and  S(V)S(Rn), \int_V R(g) dvol_g \ge 0 \text{\ \ and\ \ } S(V)\ge S(\mathbb{R}^n), then g=gRng=g_{\mathbb{R}^n} on VV, where R(g)R(g) is the scalar curvature of gg, Rn\mathbb{R}^n is Euclidean space, I(V) I(V) is the isoperimetric constant of VV and S(V)S(V) is best constant of L2L^2 logarithmic Sobolev inequality of VV. Moreover,we also obtain the local Rn\mathbb{R}^n-rigidity about local Perelman's ν\nu-entropy, and local Sn\mathbb{S}^n-rigidity (resp. Hn\mathbb{H}^n-rigidity) theorems regarding the cases concerning R(g)n(n1)R(g)\ge n(n-1) (resp. R(g)n(n1)R(g)\ge -n(n-1) ), weighted isoperimetric constant and best constant of weighted L2L^2 logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the weighted metric (cosdg(p,x)2)4g\left(\cos{\frac{d_g(p,x)}{2}}\right)^{-4}g (resp. (coshdg(p,x)2)4g\left(\cosh{\frac{d_g(p,x)}{2}}\right)^{-4}g).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.05011,
  title  = {On local rigidity theorems with respect to the scalar curvature},
  author = {Liang Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.05011},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

We also study corresponding rigidity theorems in the new version for cases where the scalar curvature is bounded below by $-n(n-1)$ or $n(n-1)$. Precisely, we add Theorem 1.7, Theorem 1.8 and add Section 5 for the proofs