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Volume functional of compact $4$-manifolds with a prescribed boundary metric

Differential Geometry 2020-06-11 v2

Abstract

We prove that a critical metric of the volume functional on a 44-dimensional compact manifold with boundary satisfying a second-order vanishing condition on the Weyl tensor must be isometric to a geodesic ball in a simply connected space form R4\mathbb{R}^{4}, H4\mathbb{H}^{4} or S4.\mathbb{S}^{4}. Moreover, we provide an integral curvature estimate involving the Yamabe constant for critical metrics of the volume functional, which allows us to get a rigidity result for such critical metrics.

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@article{arxiv.1709.07839,
  title  = {Volume functional of compact $4$-manifolds with a prescribed boundary metric},
  author = {H. Baltazar and R. Diógenes and E. Ribeiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07839},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

To appear in The Journal of Geometric Analysis