English
Related papers

Related papers: Obata-Type Rigidity on Static Manifolds with Bound…

200 papers

In this paper we prove weak L^{1,p} (and thus C^{\alpha}) compactness for the class of uniformly mean-convex Riemannian n-manifolds with boundary satisfying bounds on curvature quantities, diameter, and (n-1)-volume of the boundary. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Kenneth S. Knox

Let (M, g) be a compact Einstein Riemannian manifold with boundary. We show that under certain conditions, the map that associates to a metric on M its Ricci curvature, its induced conformal class on the boundary, and its mean curvature on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Erwann Delay

Let $G$ be the group of orientation-preserving isometries of a rank-one symmetric space $X$ of non-compact type. We study local rigidity of certain actions of a solvable subgroup $\Gamma \subset G$ on the boundary of $X$, which is…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Mao Okada

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

We consider a partially overdetermined problem in a sector-like domain $\Omega$ in a cone $\Sigma$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 2$, and prove a rigidity result of Serrin type by showing that the existence of a solution implies that $\Omega$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Filomena Pacella , Giulio Tralli

A classic result of Shi and Tam states that a 2-sphere of positive Gauss and mean curvature bounding a compact 3-manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature, must have total mean curvature not greater than that of the isometric embedding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Aghil Alaee , Pei-Ken Hung , Marcus Khuri

Given a closed Riemannian manifold of dimenion less than eight, we prove a compactness result for the space of closed, embedded minimal hypersurfaces satisfying a volume bound and a uniform lower bound on the first eigenvalue of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Lucas Ambrozio , Alessandro Carlotto , Ben Sharp

Consider a manifold with boundary, and such that the interior is equipped with a pseudo-Riemannian metric. We prove that, under mild asymptotic non-vanishing conditions on the scalar curvature, if the Levi-Civita connection of the interior…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Andreas Cap , A. Rod Gover

We study the Yamabe problem on open manifolds of bounded geometry and show that under suitable assumptions there exist Yamabe metrics, i.e. conformal metrics of constant scalar curvature. For that, we use weighted Sobolev embeddings.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Nadine Große

Let $\sigma$ be the scattering relation on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with non-necessarily convex boundary, that maps initial points of geodesic rays on the boundary and initial directions to the outgoing point on the boundary and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann

We deal with rigidity results for compact gradient Einstein-type manifolds with nonempty boundaries. As a result, we obtain new characterizations for hemispheres and geodesic balls in simply connected space forms. In dimensions three and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Allan George de Carvalho Freitas , José Nazareno Vieira Gomes

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

In this paper, we study the boundary behaviors of compact manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature and with nonempty boundary. Using a general version of Positive Mass Theorem of Schoen-Yau and Witten, we prove the following theorem: For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuguang Shi , Luen-fai Tam

Let \Sigma be a compact surface of type (g, n), n > 0, obtained by removing n disjoint disks from a closed surface of genus g. Assuming \chi(\Sigma)<0, we show that on \Sigma, the set of flat metrics which have the same Laplacian spectrum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Young-Heon Kim

We consider smooth, complete Riemannian manifolds which are exponentially locally doubling. Under a uniform Ricci curvature bound and a uniform lower bound on injectivity radius, we prove a Kato square root estimate for certain coercive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Lashi Bandara , Alan McIntosh

We establish a free analogue of Obata's rigidity theorem. More precisely, Cheng and Zhou (2017) proved that on a weighted Riemannian manifold, the sharp spectral gap (Poincar\'e constant) is achieved only when the space splits isometrically…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Charles-Philippe Diez

In this article we study the shape of a compact surface of constant mean curvature of Euclidean space whose boundary is contained in a round sphere. We consider the case that the boundary is prescribed or that the surface meets the sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-22 Rafael López , Juncheol Pyo

In this paper, we proved a rigidity theorem of the Hodge metric for concave horizontal slices and a local rigidity theorem for the monodromy representation.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiqin Lu

We prove a local rigidity result for infinitesimally rigid capillary surfaces in some Riemannian $3$-manifolds with mean convex boundary. We also derive bounds on the genus, number of boundary components and area of any compact two-sided…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Eduardo Longa

We review some geometric criteria and prove a refined version, that yield existence of capillary surfaces in tubes $\Omega\times \mathbb{R}$ in a gravity free environment, in the case of physical interest, that is, for bounded, open, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Giorgio Saracco