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In this paper we prove a positive energy theorem related to fourth-order gravitational theories, which is a higher-order analogue of the classical ADM positive energy theorem of general relativity. We will also show that, in parallel to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Rodrigo Avalos , Paul Laurain , Jorge Lira

The rigidity of the positive mass theorem states that the only complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature and zero mass is Euclidean space. We prove a corresponding stability theorem for spaces that can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Dan A. Lee

We study compactness for nonnegative solutions of the fourth order constant $Q$-curvature equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension $\ge 5$. If the $Q$-curvature equals $-1$, we prove that all solutions are universally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-16 YanYan Li , Jingang Xiong

This is the second article of a sequence of research on deformations of Q-curvature. In the previous one, we studied local stability and rigidity phenomena of Q-curvature. In this article, we mainly investigate the volume comparison with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-22 Yueh-Ju Lin , Wei Yuan

The rigidity of the Positive Mass Theorem states that the only complete asymptotically flat manifold of nonnegative scalar curvature and zero mass is Euclidean space. We study the stability of this statement for spaces that can be realized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Dan A. Lee , Christina Sormani

We provide a somewhat geometric proof of a rigidity theorem by M. Ledoux and C. Xia concerning complete manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature supporting an Euclidean-type Sobolev inequality with (almost) best Sobolev constant. Using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-22 Stefano Pigola , Giona Veronelli

In this paper, we prove a rigidity theorem for Poincar\'e-Einstein manifolds whose conformal infinity is a flat Euclidean space. The proof relies on analyzing the propagation of curvature tensors over the level sets of an adapted boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Sanghoon Lee , Fang Wang

This paper proves a positive energy-momentum theorem for oriented Riemannian 3-manifolds that are asymptotic to a standard hyperbolic slice in anti de Sitter space-time. Analogously to the original Witten's proof in the asymptotically flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Maerten

We refine Theorem A due to Gursky \cite{G3}. As applications, we give some rigidity theorems on four-manifolds with postive Yamabe constant. In particular, these rigidity theorems are sharp for our conditions have the additional properties…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Hai-Ping Fu

We study the rigidity of Ricci-flat manifolds with quadratic curvature decay under conditions on the Green function. We show that if the gradient of the Green function is uniformly bounded from below, then the manifold is flat. Furthermore,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Sanghoon Lee , Jiewon Park

For Einstein four-manifolds with positive scalar curvature, we derive relations among various positivity conditions on the curvature tensor, some of which are of great importance in the study of the Ricci flow. These relations suggest…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Peng Wu

We present a new construction of the Euclidean $\Phi^4$ quantum field theory on $\mathbb{R}^3$ based on PDE arguments. More precisely, we consider an approximation of the stochastic quantization equation on $\mathbb{R}^3$ defined on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Massimiliano Gubinelli , Martina Hofmanova

We derive an explicit formula for the ADM mass of asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) almost K\"ahler manifolds. The formula expresses the mass in terms of the total Hermitian scalar curvature and topological data associated with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Partha Ghosh

In this paper, we investigate the rigidity of Q-curvature. Specifically, we consider a closed, oriented $n$-dimensional ($n\geq6$) Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ and prove the following results under the condition $\int_{M} \nabla R\cdot\nabla…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Yiyan Xu , Shihong Zhang

In the conformal class of Euclidean space, we give some volume comparison theorems with help of Q-curvature. Meanwhile, for compact four dimensional manifolds with non-negative scalar curvature, we give a volume rigidity theorem with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Mingxiang Li , Juncheng Wei

We show that for any closed nonpositively curved Riemannian 4-manifold $M$ with vanishing Euler characteristic, the Ricci curvature must degenerate somewhere. Moreover, for each point $p\in M$, either the Ricci tensor degenerates or else…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Chris Connell , Yuping Ruan , Shi Wang

We establish the positive energy theorem and a Penrose-type inequality for 3-dimensional asymptotically hyperboloidal initial data sets with toroidal infinity, weakly trapped boundary, and satisfying the dominant energy condition. In the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Aghil Alaee , Pei-Ken Hung , Marcus Khuri

In this paper, we establish the existence of conformal deformations that uniformize fourth order curvature on 4-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with positive conformal invariants. Specifically, we prove that any closed, compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Sanghoon Lee

For compact submanifolds in Euclidean and Spherical space forms with Ricci curvature bounded below by a function $\alpha(n,k,H,c)$ of mean curvature, we prove that the submanifold is either isometric to the Einstein Clifford torus, or a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Jianquan Ge , Ya Tao , Yi Zhou

Rigidity results for asymptotically locally hyperbolic manifolds with lower bounds on scalar curvature are proved using spinor methods related to the Witten proof of the positive mass theorem. The argument is based on a study of the Dirac…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2011-07-21 L. Andersson , M. Dahl
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