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We show a sharp and rigid spectral generalization of the classical Bishop--Gromov volume comparison theorem: if a closed Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ of dimension $n\geq3$ satisfies $$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Gioacchino Antonelli , Kai Xu

In this paper we investigate the flow of surfaces by a class of symmetric functions of the principal curvatures with a mixed volume constraint. We consider compact surfaces without boundary that can be written as a graph over a sphere. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 David Hartley

In this article, we prove a rigidity theorem for isometric embeddings into the Schwarzschild manifold, by using the variational formula of quasi-local mass.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Po-Ning Chen , Xiangwen Zhang

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow in smooth Riemannian manifolds of the form $([R_{0},\infty)\times S^n,\bar{g})$ with metric $\bar{g}=dr^2+{\vartheta}^2(r){\sigma}$ and non-positive radial sectional curvature. We prove, that for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Julian Scheuer

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 prove new rigidity results for compact Riemannian spin manifolds with boundary whose scalar curvature is bounded from below by a non-positive constant. In particular, we obtain generalizations of a result of Hang-Wang…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Simon Raulot

One can describe isomorphism of two compact hyperbolic Riemann surfaces of the same genus by a measure-theoretic property: a chosen isomorphism of their fundamental groups corresponds to a homeomorphism on the boundary of the Poincar\'e…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Gunther Cornelissen , Janne Kool

By exploiting the conformality of a warped product metric with a direct product metric, we develop a new connection on a twisted spinor bundle and its associated Dirac operator. We obtain a Llarull type scalar curvature rigidity for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Xiaoxiang Chai , Xueyuan Wan

This work presents the foundations of Singular Semi-Riemannian Geometry and Singular General Relativity, based on the author's research. An extension of differential geometry and of Einstein's equation to singularities is reported.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-27 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

In this paper, we concern a generalized fully nonlinear curvature flow involving $k$-th elementary symmetric function for principal curvature radii in Eulidean space $\rnnn$, $k$ is an integer and $1\leq k\leq n-1$. For $1\leq k< n-1$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Jinrong Hu , Jiaqian Liu , Di Ma , Jing Wang

A compactness theorem is proved for a family of K\"{a}hler surfaces with constant scalar curvature and volume bounded from below, diameter bounded from above, Ricci curvature bounded and the signature bounded from below. Furthermore, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-04 Hongliang Shao

Comparison theorems are foundational to our understanding of the geometric features implied by various curvature constraints. This paper considers manifolds with a positive lower bound on either scalar, 2-Ricci, or Ricci curvature, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Sven Hirsch , Demetre Kazaras , Marcus Khuri , Yiyue Zhang

The first main result is a topological rigidity theorem for complete immersed hypersurfaces of spherical space forms which extends similar results due to do Carmo/Warner, Wang/Xia and Longa/Ripoll. Under certain sharp conditions on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Pedro Zühlke

I prove a scalar curvature rigidity theorem for spheres. In particular, I prove that geodesic balls of radii strictly less than $\frac{\pi}{2}$ in $n+1~(n\geq 2)$ dimensional unit sphere can be rigid under smooth deformations that increase…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Puskar Mondal

We consider smooth flows preserving a smooth invariant measure, or, equivalently, locally Hamiltonian flows on compact orientable surfaces and show that, when the genus of the surface is two, almost every such locally Hamiltonian flow with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Jon Chaika , Krzysztof Frączek , Adam Kanigowski , Corinna Ulcigrai

We study the global existence and stability of surface diffusion flow (the normal velocity is given by the Laplacian of the mean curvature) of smooth boundaries of subsets of the $n$--dimensional flat torus. More precisely, we show that if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Antonia Diana , Nicola Fusco , Carlo Mantegazza

We show how Lasry-Lions's result on regularization of functions defined on $\mathbb{R}^n$ or on Hilbert spaces by sup-inf convolutions with squares of distances can be extended to (finite or infinite dimensional) Riemannian manifolds $M$ of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Daniel Azagra , Juan Ferrera

The sectional curvature of the volume preserving diffeomorphism group of a Riemannian manifold $M$ can give information about the stability of inviscid, incompressible fluid flows on $M$. We demonstrate that the submanifold of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Pearce Washabaugh , Stephen C. Preston

The stationary points of the total scalar curvature functional on the space of unit volume metrics on a given closed manifold are known to be precisely the Einstein metrics. One may consider the modified problem of finding stationary points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Justin Corvino , Michael Eichmair , Pengzi Miao

For closed connected Riemannian spin manifolds an upper estimate of the smallest eigenvalue of the Dirac operator in terms of the hyperspherical radius is proved. When combined with known lower Dirac eigenvalue estimates, this has a number…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Christian Baer