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Scalar curvature rigidity of warped product metrics

Differential Geometry 2024-04-19 v2

Abstract

We show scalar-mean curvature rigidity of warped products of round spheres of dimension at least 2 over compact intervals equipped with strictly log-concave warping functions. This generalizes earlier results of Cecchini-Zeidler to all dimensions. Moreover, we show scalar curvature rigidity of round spheres of dimension at least 3 with two antipodal points removed. This resolves a problem in Gromov's ''Four Lectures'' in all dimensions. Our arguments are based on spin geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2306.04015,
  title  = {Scalar curvature rigidity of warped product metrics},
  author = {Christian Baer and Simon Brendle and Bernhard Hanke and Yipeng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.04015},
  year   = {2024}
}

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