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For a Kahler metric, the Riemannian scalar curvature is equal to twice the Chern scalar curvature. The question we address here is whether this equivalence can hold for a non-Kahler Hermitian metric. For such metrics, if they exist, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Michael G. Dabkowski , Michael T. Lock

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

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Sergio Almaraz

Let (M,g) be a compact n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary. This article is concerned with the set of scalar-flat metrics on M which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Sergio Almaraz

In this note, we derive explicit formulae for the curvature of a convex sum of Riemannian metrics, \(g_t = (1-t)g_0 + t g_1\). We study whether such a deformation can increase the \emph{average} of the Riemann curvature component…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Leonardo F. Cavenaghi , Giovane Galindo , Llohann D. Sperança

We investigate the effect of the average scalar curvature on the conjugate radius, average area of the geodesic spheres, average volume of the metric balls and the total volume of a closed Riemannian manifold $N$ (or more generally $N$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Kwok-Kun Kwong

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

Let $M$ be a compact connected surface with boundary. We prove that the signal condition given by the Gauss-Bonnet theorem is necessary and sufficient for a given smooth function $f$ on $\partial M$ (resp. on $M$) to be geodesic curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Tiarlos Cruz , Feliciano Vitório

In this paper, we consider the problem of prescribing the scalar curvature under minimal boundary conditions on the standard four dimensional half sphere. We provide an Euler-Hopf type criterion for a given function to be a scalar curvature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 M. Ben Ayed , K. El Mehdi , M. Ould Ahmedou

In a Riemannian manifold, it is well known that the scalar curvature at a point can be recovered from the volumes (areas) of small geodesic balls (spheres). We show the scalar curvature is likewise determined by the relative capacities of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Jeffrey L. Jauregui

On a compact $n$-dimensional manifold, it is well known that a critical metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with unit volume is Einstein. It has been conjectured that a critical metric of the total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Gabjin Yun , Seungsu Hwang

This manuscript investigates the curvature and topological properties of certain $\infty$-Einstein Finsler metrics on Finsler metric measure spaces. By imposing symmetry conditions, we construct a series of special metrics and analyze their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Bin Shen

We prove a splitting theorem for Riemannian n-manifolds with scalar curvature bounded below by a negative constant and containing certain area-minimising hypersurfaces (Theorem 3). Thus we generalise [25,Theorem 3] by Nunes. This splitting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-05 Vlad Moraru

In this note, we review some recent developments related to metric aspects of scalar curvature from the point of view of index theory for Dirac operators. In particular, we revisit index-theoretic approaches to a conjecture of Gromov on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Rudolf Zeidler

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

An integral geometric curvature is defined as the index expectation K(x) = E[i(x)] if a probability measure m is given on vector fields on a Riemannian manifold or on a finite simple graph. Such curvatures are local, satisfy Gauss-Bonnet…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Oliver Knill

On a compact manifold $M$ with boundary $\partial M$, we study the problem of prescribing the scalar curvature in $M$ and the mean curvature on the boundary $\partial M$ simultaneously. To do this, we introduce the notion of singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Pak Tung Ho , Yen-Chang Huang

In 2014, Gromov vaguely conjectured that a sequence of manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature should have a subsequence which converges in some weak sense to a limit space with some generalized notion of nonnegative scalar curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Christina Sormani , Wenchuan Tian , Changliang Wang

We construct examples of compact and one-ended constant mean curvature surfaces with large mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds with axial symmetry by gluing together small spheres positioned end-to-end along a geodesic. Such surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Adrian Butscher , Rafe Mazzeo

A $W^{1,p}$-metric on an $n$-dimensional closed Riemannian manifold naturally induces a distance function, provided $p$ is sufficiently close to $n$. If a sequence of metrics $g_k$ converges in $W^{1,p}$ to a limit metric $g$, then the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Conghan Dong , Yuxiang Li , Ke Xu

We propose a notion of scalar curvature lower bounds in a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold endowed with a $C^0$ metric based on the monotonicity of the Hawking mass along the inverse mean curvature flow. We present a stability theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Mattia Fogagnolo , Giorgio Gatti , Alessandra Pluda