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Relative radial mass and rigidity of some warped product manifolds

Differential Geometry 2008-02-25 v1

Abstract

We give a Riccati type formula adapted for two metrics having the same geodesics rays starting from a point or orthogonal to an hypersurface, one of these metrics being a warped product if the dimension nn is greater than or equal to 3. This formula has non-trivial geometric consequences such as a positive mass type theorem and other rigidity results. We also apply our result to some standard models.

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@article{arxiv.0802.3270,
  title  = {Relative radial mass and rigidity of some warped product manifolds},
  author = {Marc Arcostanzo and Erwann Delay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3270},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages