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We apply the Riemannian Penrose inequality and the Riemannian positive mass theorem to derive inequalities on the boundary of a class of compact Riemannian $3$-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. The boundary of such a manifold has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Pengzi Miao , Naqing Xie

In this article, we develop a new index theory for noncompact manifolds endowed with an admissible exhaustion by compact sets. This index theory allows us to provide examples of noncompact manifolds with exotic positive scalar curvature…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Stanley Chang , Shmuel Weinbeger , Guoliang Yu

We introduce a scissors congruence $K$-theory spectrum which lifts the equivariant scissors congruence groups for compact $G$-manifolds with boundary, and we show that on $\pi_0$ this is the source of a spectrum level lift of the Burnside…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Mona Merling , Ming Ng , Julia Semikina , Alba Sendón Blanco , Lucas Williams

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 lay the groundwork for a UV-complete formulation of the Euclidean Jackiw-Teitelboim two-dimensional models of quantum gravity when the boundary lengths are finite, emphasizing the discretized approach. The picture that emerges is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-12 Frank Ferrari

The main result of this paper shows that "test configurations" give new lower bounds on the $L^{2}$ norm of the scalar curvature on a Kahler manifold. This is closely analogous to the analysis of the Yang-Mills functional over Riemann…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. K. Donaldson

We show how a suitably twisted Spin-cobordism spectrum connects to the question of existence of metrics of positive scalar curvature on closed, smooth manifolds by building on fundamental work of Gromov, Lawson, Rosenberg, Stolz and others.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Fabian Hebestreit , Michael Joachim

It is shown that a compact $n$-dimensional K\"ahler manifold with $\frac{n}{2}$-positive Calabi curvature operator has the rational cohomology of complex projective space. For even $n,$ this is sharp in the sense that the complex quadric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Kyle Broder , Jan Nienhaus , Peter Petersen , James Stanfield , Matthias Wink

We give new lower bounds for the (higher) topological complexity of a space, in terms of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of a certain auxiliary space. We also give new lower bounds for the rational topological complexity of a space, and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Mark Grant , Gregory Lupton , John Oprea

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian three-dimensional manifold with boundary. We prove the compactness of the set of scalar-flat metrics which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Sergio Almaraz , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Shaodong Wang

Using the index theory for twisted Dirac operators acting on sections of Lipschitz bundles over non-compact manifolds, we prove Llarull-type comparison results in scalar curvature geometry. They apply to spin Riemannian manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Simone Cecchini , Bernhard Hanke , Thomas Schick , Lukas Schoenlinner

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

Gromov conjectured that the total mean curvature of the boundary of a compact Riemannian manifold can be estimated from above by a constant depending only on the boundary metric and on a lower bound for the scalar curvature of the fill-in.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Christian Baer

We introduce partial secondary invariants associated to complete Riemannian metrics which have uniformly positive scalar curvature outside a prescribed subset on a spin manifold. These can be used to distinguish such Riemannian metrics up…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Rudolf Zeidler

We show that compact K\"ahler manifolds have the rational cohomology ring of complex projective space provided a weighted sum of the lowest three eigenvalues of the K\"ahler curvature operator is positive. This follows from a more general…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Peter Petersen , Matthias Wink

We obtain sharp quantitative Laplacian upper and lower estimates under no assumption on curvatures. As a result, we derive quantitative Laplacian, area and volume comparison theorems for tubes in Riemannian and K\"ahler manifolds under weak…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-19 Kwok-Kun Kwong

This paper is about the influence of Geometry on the qualitative behaviour of solutions of quasilinear PDEs on Riemannian manifolds. Motivated by examples arising, among others, from the theory of submanifolds, in particular by the study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Bruno Bianchini , Luciano Mari , Patrizia Pucci , Marco Rigoli

Work of D. Stern and Bray-Kazaras-Khuri-Stern provide differential-geometric identities which relate the scalar curvature of Riemannian 3-manifolds to global invariants in terms of harmonic functions. These quantitative formulas are useful…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Brian Allen , Edward Bryden , Demetre Kazaras

In this paper, we investigate complete Riemannian manifolds satisfying the lower weighted Ricci curvature bound $\mathrm{Ric}_{N} \geq K$ with $K>0$ for the negative effective dimension $N<0$. We analyze two $1$-dimensional examples of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Cong Hung Mai

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