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Scalar curvature comparison and rigidity of $3$-dimensional weakly convex domains

Differential Geometry 2025-07-02 v2

Abstract

For a compact Riemannian 33-manifold (M3,g)(M^{3}, g) with mean convex boundary which is diffeomorphic to a weakly convex compact domain in R3\mathbb{R}^{3}, we prove that if scalar curvature is nonnegative and the scaled mean curvature comparison H2gH02gEuclH^{2}g \ge H_{0}^{2} g_{Eucl} holds, then (M,g)(M,g) is flat. Our result is a smooth analog of Gromov's dihedral rigidity conjecture and an effective version of extremity results on weakly convex balls in R3\mathbb R^3. More generally, we prove the comparison and rigidity theorem for several classes of manifold with corners. Our proof uses capillary minimal surfaces with prescribed contact angle together with the construction of foliation with nonnegative mean curvature and with prescribed contact angles.

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@article{arxiv.2410.20548,
  title  = {Scalar curvature comparison and rigidity of $3$-dimensional weakly convex domains},
  author = {Dongyeong Ko and Xuan Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.20548},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

23 pages, comments are welcome! We fixed typos and modified the introduction