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Let $G\curvearrowright M$ be an isometric action of a Lie Group on a complete orientable Riemannian manifold. We disintegrate absolutely continuous measures with respect to the volume measure of $M$ along the principal orbits of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-25 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues

We prove a compactness theorem for metrics with Bounded Integral Curvature on a fixed closed surface $\Sigma$. As a corollary, we obtain a compactification of the space of Riemannian metrics with conical singularities, where an accumulation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Clément Debin

We investigate rigidity and stability properties of critical points of quadratic curvature functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics. We show it is possible to "gauge" the Euler-Lagrange equations, in a self-adjoint fashion, to become…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Matthew Gursky , Jeff Viaclovsky

We introduce the concept of ODD ('$\mathbf{O}$rthogonally $\mathbf{D}$egenerating on a $\mathbf{D}$ivisor') Riemannian metrics on real analytic manifolds $M$. These semipositive symmetric $2$-tensors may degenerate on a finite collection of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Lukas Braun

Let M be a compact manifold with boundary. In this paper, we discuss some rigidity theorems of metrics in a same conformal class that fixes the boundary and satisfy certain integral conditions on the the scalar curvatures and the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Ezequiel Barbosa , Heudson Mirandola , Feliciano Vitorio

We give a characterization {\sl \`a la Obata} for certain families of K\''ahler manifolds. These results are in the same line as other extensions of the well-known Obata's rigidity theorem from \cite{Obata62}, like for instance the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-21 Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib , Mihaela Pilca , Uwe Semmelmann

We study the rigidity of compact submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary codimension that satisfy a sharp pinching condition involving the norm of the second fundamental form and the mean curvature. Without assuming that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Theodoros Vlachos

We show that any space with a positive upper curvature bound has in a small neighborhood of any point a closely related metric with a negative upper curvature bound.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Alexander Lytchak , Stephan Stadler

We study generalizations of Reifenberg's Theorem for measures in $\mathbb R^n$ under assumptions on the Jones' $\beta$-numbers, which appropriately measure how close the support is to being contained in a subspace. Our main results, which…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Nick Edelen , Aaron Naber , Daniele Valtorta

Consider an orientable compact surface in three dimensional Euclidean space with minimum total absolute curvature. If the Gaussian curvature changes sign to finite order and satisfies a nondegeneracy condition along closed asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-17 Qing Han , Marcus Khuri

A hypercomplex manifold $M$ is a manifold equipped with three complex structures satisfying quaternionic relations. Such a manifold admits a canonical torsion-free connection preserving the quaternion action, called Obata connection. A…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Gueo Grantcharov , Mehdi Lejmi , Misha Verbitsky

We prove a CR Obata type result that if the first positive eigenvalue of the sub-Laplacian on a compact strictly pseudoconvex pseudohermitian manifold with a divergence free pseudohermitian torsion takes the smallest possible value then, up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-11 Stefan Ivanov , Dimiter Vassilev

The Dehn function of a metric space measures the area necessary in order to fill a closed curve of controlled length by a disc. As a main result, we prove that a length space has curvature bounded above by $\kappa$ in the sense of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Stephan Stadler , Stefan Wenger

We describe all pseudo-Riemannian metrics on closed surfaces whose geodesic flows admit nontrivial integrals quadratic in momenta. As an application, we solve the Beltrami problem on closed surfaces, prove the nonexistence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Vladimir S. Matveev

We study bounded domains $\Omega\subset\mathbb{C}^n$ whose Bergman metric is locally symmetric, i.e. its Riemannian curvature tensor is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection. Following the strategy developed in…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Andrea Loi , Matteo Palmieri

We prove two rigidity results for surfaces lying in the standard null hypersurfaces of Schwarzschild spacetime satisfying certain mean curvature type equations. The first is for the equation $\alpha_H = - d\log |H|$ studied in \cite{WWZ}.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Po-Ning Chen , Ye-Kai Wang

In this paper we extend the local scalar curvature rigidity result in [6] to a small domain on general vacuum static spaces, which confirms the interesting dichotomy of local surjectivity and local rigidity about the scalar curvature in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Jie Qing , Wei Yuan

In this note we show that in metric measure spaces satisfying the reduced curvature-dimension condition CD*(K,N) we always have geodesics in the Wasserstein space of probability measures that satisfy the critical convexity inequality of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Tapio Rajala

In this paper we prove that every Riemannian metric on a locally conformally flat manifold with umbilic boundary can be conformally deformed to a scalar flat metric having constant mean curvature. This result can be seen as a generalization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

A theorem of Escobar asserts that, on a positive three dimensional smooth compact Riemannian manifold with boundary which is not conformally equivalent to the standard three dimensional ball, a necessary and sufficient condition for a $C^2$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Veronica Felli , Mohameden Ould Ahmedou