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In this paper we consider the moduli space of complete, conformally flat metrics on a sphere with k punctures having constant positive Q-curvature and positive scalar curvature. Previous work has shown that such metrics admit an asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-13 João Henrique Andrade , João Marcos do Ó , Jesse Ratzkin

Let $(M, g)$ be a complete, connected, non-compact Riemannian $3$-manifold. Suppose that $(M,g)$ satisfies the Ricci--pinching condition $\mathrm{Ric}\geq\varepsilon\mathrm{R} g$ for some $\varepsilon>0$, where $\mathrm{Ric}$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Luca Benatti , Carlo Mantegazza , Francesca Oronzio , Alessandra Pluda

Let $(M^n, g)(n\geq3)$ be an $n$-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold with harmonic curvature and positive Yamabe constant. Denote by $R$ and $\mathring{Rm}$ the scalar curvature and the trace-free Riemannian curvature tensor of $M$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Hai-Ping Fu , Li-Qun Xiao

We obtain some rigidity results for metrics whose Schouten tensor is bounded from below after conformal transformations. Liang Cheng recently proved that a complete, nonflat, locally conformally flat manifold with Ricci pinching condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Mijia Lai , Guoqiang Wu

In this article we study stability and compactness w.r.t. measured Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of smooth metric measure spaces with integral Ricci curvature bounds. More precisely, we prove that a sequence of $n$-dimensional Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Christian Ketterer

We show that any Riemannian metric conformal to the round metric on $S^n$, for $n\geq 4$, arises as a limit of a sequence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on $S^n$ in the sense of uniform convergence of Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Man-Chun Lee , Peter M. Topping

Given a compact four dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with smooth boundary, we consider the evolution equation by $Q$-curvature in the interior keeping the $T$-curvature and the mean curvature to be zero and the evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-16 Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye

In this paper, we consider asymptotically flat Riemannnian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with $C^0$ metric $g$ and $g$ is smooth away from a closed bounded subset $\Sigma$ and the scalar curvature $R_g\ge 0$ on $M\setminus \Sigma$. For given $n\le…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Wenshuai Jiang , Weimin Sheng , Huaiyu Zhang

In this paper, we establish some compactness results of conformally compact Einstein metrics on $4$-dimensional manifolds. Our results were proved under assumptions on the behavior of some local and non-local conformal invariants, on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Sun-Yung A. Chang , Yuxin Ge

We present several rigidity results for Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with scalar curvature $S \ge -n(n-1)$ (or $S\ge 0$), and having compact boundary $N$ satisfying a related mean curvature inequality. The proofs make use of results on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Gregory J. Galloway , Hyun Chul Jang

We prove compactness of solutions of a fully nonlinear Yamabe problem satisfying a lower Ricci curvature bound, when the manifold is not conformally diffeomorphic to the standard sphere. This allows us to prove the existence of solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-14 YanYan Li , Luc Nguyen

Some new differentiable sphere theorems are obtained via the Ricci flow and stable currents. We prove that if $M^n$ is a compact manifold whose normalized scalar curvature and sectional curvature satisfy the pointwise pinching condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-14 Juan-Ru Gu , Hong-Wei Xu

We prove some rigidity results for compact manifolds with boundary. In particular for a compact Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and simply connected mean convex boundary, it is shown that if the sectional curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fengbo Hang , Xiaodong Wang

In the present paper, we show that on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $d\leqslant 4$ whose metric has negative curvature, the renormalized partition function $Z_g(\lambda)$ of a massive Gaussian Free Field determines the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Nguyen Viet Dang

This note is a continuation of the author's paper \cite{Li}. We prove that if the metric $g$ of a 4-manifold has bounded Ricci curvature and the curvature has no local concentration everywhere, then it can be smoothed to a metric with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-17 Ye Li

A conformal metric $g$ with constant curvature one and finite conical singularities on a compact Riemann surface $\Sigma$ can be thought of as the pullback of the standard metric on the 2-sphere by a multi-valued locally univalent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Qing Chen , Wei Wang , Yingyi Wu , Bin Xu

We give sufficient and "almost" necessary conditions for the prescribed scalar curvature problems within the conformal class of a Riemannian metric $ g $ for both closed manifolds and compact manifolds with boundary, including the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Jie Xu

In this paper, we consider the problem of existence and multiplicity of conformal metrics on a riemannian compact $4-$dimensional manifold $(M^4,g_0)$ with positive scalar curvature. We prove new exitence criterium which provides existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-10 Hichem Chtioui , Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

Given an smooth function $K <0$ we prove a result by Berger, Kazhdan and others that in every conformal class there exists a metric which attains this function as its Gaussian curvature for a compact Riemann surface of genus $g>1$. We do so…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rukmini Dey

We provide a step towards classifying Riemannian four-manifolds in which the curvature tensor has zero divergence, or -- equivalently -- the Ricci tensor Ric satisfies the Codazzi equation. Every known compact manifold of this type belongs…

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