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Stability of graphical tori with almost nonnegative scalar curvature

Differential Geometry 2020-06-29 v2

Abstract

By works of Schoen-Yau and Gromov-Lawson any Riemannian manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature and diffeomorphic to a torus is isometric to a flat torus. Gromov conjectured subconvergence of tori with respect to a weak Sobolev type metric when the scalar curvature goes to 00. We prove flat and intrinsic flat subconvergence to a flat torus for noncollapsing sequences of 33-dimensional tori MjM_j that can be realized as graphs of certain functions defined over flat tori satisfying a uniform upper diameter bound and scalar curvature bounds of the form RgMj1/jR_{g_{M_j}} \geq -1/j. We also show that the volume of the manifolds of the convergent subsequence converges to the volume of the limit space. We do so adapting results of Huang-Lee, Huang-Lee-Sormani and Allen-Perales-Sormani. Furthermore, our results also hold when the condition on the scalar curvature of a torus (M,gM)(M, g_M) is replaced by a bound on the quantity Tmin{RgM,0}d\mboxvolgT-\int_T \min\{R_{g_M},0\} d{\mbox{vol}_{g_T}}, where M=\mboxgraph(f)M=\mbox{graph}(f), f:TRf: T \to \mathbb R and (T,gT)(T,g_T) is a flat torus. Using arguments developed by Alaee, McCormick and the first named author after this work was completed, our results hold for dimensions n4n \geq 4 as well.

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@article{arxiv.1902.03458,
  title  = {Stability of graphical tori with almost nonnegative scalar curvature},
  author = {Armando J. Cabrera Pacheco and Christian Ketterer and Raquel Perales},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.03458},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

34 pages, revised proof, accepted for publication in Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations