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In odd dimensions, we prove a scalar curvature rigidity for parabolic convex polytopes in hyperbolic space enclosed by linear planes in the Poincare upper half-space model and convex with respect to the conformally related flat metric. Our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Xiaoxiang Chai , Xueyuan Wan

In his ``Four Lectures", Gromov conjectured a scalar curvature extremality property of convex polytopes. Moreover, Gromov outlined a proof of the conjecture in the special case when the dihedral angles are acute. Gromov's argument relies on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 S. Brendle , Y. Wang

We prove a generalization of Gromov's conjecture on scalar curvature rigidity of convex polytopes to arbitrary convex Riemannian polytope type domains via harmonic spinors on convex domians with boundary condition constructed by Brendle. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Xuan Yao

The main result of this article is a Llarull-type rigidity statement for scalar curvature on Riemannian spin manifolds with cone-like singularities in odd dimensions. The even dimensional analog was proven in an earlier work together with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Lukas Schoenlinner

Motivated by Brendle-Marques-Neves' counterexample to the Min-Oo's conjecture, we prove a volume constrained scalar curvature rigidity theorem which applies to the hemisphere.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Pengzi Miao , Luen-fai Tam

We use the Dirac operator method to prove a scalar-mean curvature comparison theorem for spin manifolds which carry iterated conical singularities. Our approach is to study the index theory of a twisted Dirac operator on such singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Milan Jovanovic , Jinmin Wang

Inspired by the work of F. Hang and X. Wang and partial results by S. Raulot, we prove a scalar curvature rigitidy result for locally conformally flat manifolds with boundary in the spirit of the well-known Min-Oo conjecture.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Fabian Michael Spiegel

We present a much simplified proof of Dehn's theorem on the infinitesimal rigidity of convex polytopes. Our approach is based on the ideas of Trushkina and Schramm.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Pak

We establish a rigidity theorem for Brendle and Hung's recent systolic inequality, which involves Gromov's notion of \(T^{\rtimes}\)-stabilized scalar curvature. Our primary technique is the construction of foliations by free boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Yipeng Wang

This paper generalizes Llarull's classical scalar curvature rigidity theorem to the setting of weighted manifolds with P-scalar curvature. More precisely, we prove the refinement of Llarull's theorem for P-scalar curvature, which is similar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Linfeng Zhou , Guangrui Zhu

We give a variational proof of the existence and uniqueness of a convex cap with the given upper boundary. The proof uses the concavity of the total scalar curvature functional on the space of generalized convex caps. As a byproduct, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ivan Izmestiev

We establish a sharp upper bound for the bottom spectrum of the Beltrami Laplacian on universal covers of closed Riemannian manifolds with scalar curvature lower bound. Moreover, we prove a scalar curvature rigidity theorem when this bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Jinmin Wang , Bo Zhu

In this paper, we provide some remarks on the scalar curvature rigidity theorem of Brendle and Marques in \cite{BrendleMarques}. The main result is that Brendle and Marques' theorem holds on a geodesic ball larger than that specified in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-14 Graham Cox , Pengzi Miao , Luen-fai Tam

In this paper, we prove some rigidity theorems for compact Bach-flat $n$-manifold with the positive constant scalar curvature. In particular, our conditions in Theorem 1.4 have the additional properties of being sharp.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Haiping Fu , Jianke Peng

In this paper, we develop a new index theory for manifolds with polyhedral boundary. As an application, we prove Gromov's dihedral extremality conjecture regarding comparisons of scalar curvatures, mean curvatures and dihedral angles…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Jinmin Wang , Zhizhang Xie , Guoliang Yu

A convergence theorem is proved for a class of Nystrom methods for weakly singular integral equations on surfaces in three dimensions. Fredholm equations of the second kind as arise in connection with linear elliptic boundary value problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-24 Oscar Gonzalez , Jun Li

Although scalar curvature is the simplest curvature invariant, our understanding of scalar curvature has not matured to the same level as Ricci or sectional curvature. Despite this fact, many rigidity phenomenon have been established which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Brian Allen

Our work proves rigidity theorems for initial data sets associated with compact smooth spin manifolds with boundary and with compact convex polytopes, subject to the dominant energy condition. For manifolds with smooth boundary, this is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Christian Baer , Simon Brendle , Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow , Bernhard Hanke

In this paper, we prove a scalar curvature rigidity result for geodesic balls in S^n. This result contrasts sharply with the recent counterexamples to Min-Oo's conjecture for the hemisphere (cf. [5]).

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-18 S. Brendle , F. C. Marques

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
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