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We develop a framework for understanding the existence of asymptotically flat solutions to the static vacuum Einstein equations with prescribed boundary data consisting of the induced metric and mean curvature on a 2-sphere. A partial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Michael T. Anderson , Marcus A. Khuri

The Lichnerowicz conjecture asserts that all harmonic manifolds are either flat or locally symmetric spaces of rank 1. This conjecture has been proved by Z.I. Szabo for harmonic manifolds with compact universal cover. E. Damek and F. Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Gerhard Knieper , Norbert Peyerimhoff

We prove that if $M$ is a closed $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold, $n \ge 3$, with ${\rm Ric}\ge n-1$ and for which the optimal constant in the critical Sobolev inequality equals the one of the $n$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Francesco Nobili , Ivan Yuri Violo

We consider a non-trapping $n$-dimensional Lorentzian manifold endowed with an end structure modeled on the radial compactification of Minkowski space. We find a full asymptotic expansion for tempered forward solutions of the wave equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Dean Baskin , András Vasy , Jared Wunsch

In this paper, we prove an extended version of the Minkowski Inequality, holding for any smooth bounded set $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$, $n\geq 3$. Our proof relies on the discovery of effective monotonicity formulas holding along the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Virginia Agostiniani , Mattia Fogagnolo , Lorenzo Mazzieri

In this note we prove three rigidity results for Einstein manifolds with bounded covering geometry. (1) An almost flat manifold $(M,g)$ must be flat if it is Einstein, i.e. $\operatorname{Ric}_g=\lambda g$ for some real number $\lambda$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Cuifang Si , Shicheng Xu

In this paper, we combine and generalize to higher dimensions the approaches to proving the uniqueness of connected (3+1)-dimensional static vacuum asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes by M\"uller zum Hagen--Robinson--Seifert and by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Carla Cederbaum , Albachiara Cogo , Benedito Leandro , João Paulo dos Santos

We use conformal geometry methods and the construction of Friedrich's cylinder at spatial infinity to study the propagation of spin-$0$ fields (solutions to the wave equation) on $n$-dimensional Minkowski spacetimes in a neighbourhood of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Edgar Gasperín , Mariem Magdy , Filipe C. Mena

Using harmonic mean curvature flow, we establish a sharp Minkowski type lower bound for total mean curvature of convex surfaces with a given area in Cartan-Hadamard 3-manifolds. This inequality also improves the known estimates for total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Mohammad Ghomi , Joel Spruck

We establish curvature inequalities and rigidity results for surfaces satisfying constant mean curvature type conditions in both Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry. In the Riemannian setting we study constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alejandro Peñuela Diaz

For metric measure spaces verifying the reduced curvature-dimension condition $CD^*(K,N)$ we prove a series of sharp functional inequalities under the additional assumption of essentially non-branching. Examples of spaces entering this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Fabio Cavalletti , Andrea Mondino

Intrinsic nonlinear elasticity deals with the deformations of elastic bodies as isometric immersions of Riemannian manifolds into the Euclidean spaces (see Ciarlet [9,10]). In this paper, we study the rigidity and continuity properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Siran Li , Marshall Slemrod

Any oriented $4$-dimensional Einstein metric with semi-definite sectional curvature satisfies the pointwise inequality \[ \frac{|s|}{\sqrt{6}}\geq|W^+|+|W^-|, \] where $s$, $W^+$ and $W^-$ are respectively the scalar curvature, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Luca F. Di Cerbo

We study Riemannian manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with mean-convex boundary whose Ricci curvature is nonnegative in a spectral sense. Our first main result is a sharp spectral extension of a rigidity theorem by Kasue: we prove that under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Gioacchino Antonelli , Yangyang Li , Paul Sweeney

This article establishes a low-regularity Riemannian positive mass theorem for non-spin manifolds whose metrics are only $C^0 \cap W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,n}$ and smooth outside a compact set. The main theorem asserts that asymptotically flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Eduardo Hafemann

This paper is devoted to the Moser-Trudinger-Onofri inequality on smooth compact connected Riemannian manifolds. We establish a rigidity result for the Euler-Lagrange equation and deduce an estimate of the optimal constant in the inequality…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Jean Dolbeault , Maria J. Esteban , Gaspard Jankowiak

We study connections among the ADM mass, positive harmonic functions tending to zero at infinity, and the capacity of the boundary of asymptotically flat $3$-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. First we give new formulae that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Pengzi Miao

The asymptotic structure of three-dimensional hypergravity without cosmological constant is analyzed. In the case of gravity minimally coupled to a spin-$5/2$ field, a consistent set of boundary conditions is proposed, being wide enough so…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-05 Oscar Fuentealba , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

In this paper we show rigidity results for super-solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic conformally invariant equations on subdomains of the standard $n$-sphere $\mathbb S^n$ under suitable conditions along the boundary. We emphasize that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Ezequiel Barbosa , Marcos P. Cavalcante , José M. Espinar

The Lichnerowicz conjecture asserts that all harmonic manifolds are either flat or locally symmetric spaces of rank~1. This conjecture has been proved by Z. Szab\'{o} \cite{Sz} for harmonic manifolds with compact universal cover. E. Damek…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Gerhard Knieper