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The Schouten tensor \ $A$ \ of a Riemannian manifold \ $(M,g)$ provides important scalar curvature invariants $\sigma_k$, that are the symmetric functions on the eigenvalues of $A$, where, in particular, $\sigma_1$ \ coincides with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Boris Botvinnik , Mohammed Labbi

We investigate the continuity of boundary operators, such as the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map, with respect to the coefficient matrices of the underlying elliptic equations. We show that for nonsmooth coefficients the correct notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Luca Rondi

Using Bochner techniques, we prove that a compact Einstein manifold of dimension $n \ge 4$ has constant curvature provided that the curvature operator of the second kind satisfies a cone condition that is strictly weaker than nonnegativity.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Haiping Fu , Yao Lu

We clarify how close a second order fully nonlinear equation can come to uniform ellipticity, through counting large eigenvalues of the linearized operator. This suggests an effective and novel way to understand the structure of fully…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Rirong Yuan

On pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of even dimension $n\geq 4$, with everywhere vanishing (Fefferman-Graham) obstruction tensor, we construct a complex of conformally invariant differential operators. The complex controls the infinitesimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Branson , A. Rod Gover

We investigate existence and uniqueness of bounded solutions of parabolic equations with unbounded coefficients in $M\times \mathbb R_+$, where $M$ is a complete noncompact Riemannian manifold. Under specific assumptions, we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Paolo Mastrolia , Dario D. Monticelli , Fabio Punzo

In this paper, we investigate the topological obstruction problem for positive scalar curvature and uniformly positive scalar curvature on open manifolds. We present a definition for open Schoen-Yau-Schick manifolds and prove that there is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Yuguang Shi , Jian Wang , Runzhang Wu , Jintian Zhu

In this work we deal with an elliptic non-linear problem, which arises naturally from Riemannian geometry. This problem has clasically been studied in the the Euclidean $n$-dimensional space and it is known as the Moser-Bernstein problem.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Alma L. Albujer , Jónatan Herrera , Rafael M. Rubio

We show uniqueness results for the anisotropic Calder\'{o}n problem stated on transversally anisotropic manifolds. Moreover, we give a convexity result for the range of Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps on general Riemannian manifolds near the zero…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Ali Feizmohammadi , Lauri Oksanen

In this paper we consider the problem of prescribing the Gaussian and geodesic curvature on a disk and its boundary, respectively, via a conformal change of the metric. This leads us to a Liouville-type equation with a nonlinear Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 S. Cruz-Blázquez , D. Ruiz

A classical theorem of Colin de Verdi\`ere shows that on a closed manifold of fixed topology one can prescribe an arbitrary finite portion of the Laplace-Beltrami spectrum (including multiplicities, subject to the usual topological…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Mayukh Mukherjee

Fix a number $g>1$, let $S$ be a close surface of genus $g$, and $Teich(S)$ be the Teichm\"uller space of $S$ endowed with the Weil-Petersson metric. In this paper we show that the Riemannian sectional curvature operator of $Teich(S)$ is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Yunhui Wu

The flag curvature is a natural Finsler extension of the sectional curvature in Riemannian geometry. However, there are many non-Riemannian quantities which interact with the flag curvature. In this paper, we introduce a notion of weighted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Zhongmin Shen , Runzhong Zhao

In this paper, we study the topology of complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds with asymptotically nonnegative Ricci curvature. We show that a complete noncompact manifold with asymptoticaly nonnegative Ricci curvature and sectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-29 Bazanfare Mahaman

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 model semilinear equations on complete and non-compact weighted Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature. Our main goal is to classify positive solutions of the equation at the Sobolev-critical exponent,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Giulio Ciraolo , Alberto Farina , Troy Petitt

The flag curvature is a natural extension of the sectional curvature in Riemannian geometry, and the S-curvature is a non-Riemannian quantity which vanishes for Riemannian metrics. There are (incomplete) non-Riemannian Finsler metrics on an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhongmin Shen

In this paper, we prove the existence of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space with prescribed boundary and whose k-th Weingarten curvature equals a given function that depends on the normal of the hypersurface. The proof is based on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Flávio França Cruz

In this paper, we show that any compact K$\"a$hler manifold homotopic to a compact Riemannian manifold with negative sectional curvature admits a K$\"a$hler-Einstein metric of general type. Moreover, we prove that, on a compact symplectic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Bing-Long Chen , Xiaokui Yang

We study strictly elliptic differential operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions on the space $\mathrm{C}(\overline{M})$ of continuous functions on a compact, Riemannian manifold $\overline{M}$ with boundary and prove sectoriality with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Tim Binz