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We establish the positive energy theorem for weak asymptotically anti-de Sitter initial data sets with distributional curvature under the weak dominant energy condition.

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Inspired by the study of $V$-static manifold about classification, in this article, we apply the recent results obtained by Freitas and Gomes (Compact gradient Einstein-type manifolds with boundary, 2022) to prove the rigidity results for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Xiaomin Chen

In this paper, we present two rigidity results for stable constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces immersed in $3$-manifolds with positive scalar curvature, assuming that the Hawking mass is zero. In the first result, we assume the surface to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Luiz Melo

We give new estimates on the lower bounds for the first closed or Neumann eigenvalue for a compact manifold with positive Ricci curvature in terms of the diameter and the lower bound of Ricci curvature. The results improve the previous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jun Ling

By using certain idea developed in minimal submanifold theory we study rigidity problem for self-shrinkers in the present paper. We prove rigidity results for squared norm of the second fundamental form of self-shrinkers, either under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-26 Qi Ding , Y. L. Xin

In this paper, we prove a rigidity result for three-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with boundary, under the assumption that a free boundary minimal two-disk, which locally maximizes a modified Hawking mass, is embedded in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Jihyeon Lee , Sanghun Lee

We take advantage of a rigidity result for the equation satisfied by an extremal function associated with a special case of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequalities to get a symmetry result for a larger set of inequali-ties. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Stathis Filippas , Achiles Tertikas

We showed a positive energy theorem for asymptotically flat initial data sets with the concept of spectral PSC by He-Shi-Yu, Bi-Hao-He-Shi-Zhu and Brendle-Wang; and the Jang equation in Schoen-Yau, Eichmair and Jang. Then, we proved a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Tin-Yau Tsang

We study Serrin's overdetermined boundary value problems in bounded domains on weighted Riemannian manifolds. When the closure of the domain is compact, we establish a rigidity result that characterizes both the solution and the geometry of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Laura Accornero , Giulio Ciraolo

In this note, we consider the positive mass theorem for Riemannian manifolds $(M^{n},g)$ asymptotic to $(\mathbb{R}^{k}\times X^{n-k}, g_{\mathbb{R}^{k}}+g_{X})$ for $k\geq 3$ by studying the corresponding compactification problem.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Xianzhe Dai , Yukai Sun

We observe that the maximal open set of constant curvature k in a Riemannian manifold with curvature bounded below or above by k has a convexity type property, which we call "two-convexity". This statement is used to prove a number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-20 D. Panov , A. Petrunin

We prove that to each initial datum in a set of positive measure in phase space, there exist uncountably-many associated weak solutions of Newton's equations of motion which govern the dynamics of two non-spherical sets with real-analytic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Mark Wilkinson

In this paper, we derive the first and second variation formulas for the renormalized area for static Einstein spaces along a specific direction, demonstrating that the negativity of the Neumann data implies instability. Consequently, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Zhixin Wang

We prove a scalar-mean rigidity theorem for compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary in dimension less than five by developing a dimension reduction argument for mean curvature, which extends Schoen-Yau's dimension reduction argument for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Jinmin Wang , Zhichao Wang , Bo Zhu

The goal of this paper is to investigate the rigidity of 4-dimensional manifolds involving some pinching curvature conditions. To this end, we make use of the approach of biorthogonal curvature which is weaker than the sectional curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Ernani Ribeiro

In this paper we present alternative proofs for two known rigidity results concerning non-negatively curved compact biconservative hypersurfaces in space forms. Further, we prove some new rigidity results by replacing the hypothesis of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Ştefan Andronic , Aykut Kayhan

In this article we prove a differentiable rigidity result. Let $(Y, g)$ and $(X, g_0)$ be two closed $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds ($n\geqslant 3$) and $f:Y\to X$ be a continuous map of degree $1$. We furthermore assume that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Laurent Bessières , Gérard Besson , Gilles Courtois , Sylvain Gallot

In this article we develope a spinorial proof of the Shi-Tam theorem for the positivity of the Brown-York mass without necessity of building non smooth infinite asymptotically flat hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space and use the positivity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 S. Montiel

We prove the following entropy-rigidity result in finite volume: if $X$ is a negatively curved manifold with curvature $-b^2\leq K_X \leq -1$, then $Ent_{top}(X) = n-1$ if and only if $X$ is hyperbolic. In particular, if $X$ has the same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-23 M. Peigne , A. Sambusetti

In this paper, we develop a general study of contributions at infinity of Bochner-Weitzenb\"ock-type formulas on asymptotically flat manifolds, inspired by Witten's proof of the positive mass theorem. As an application, we show that similar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Marc Herzlich