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In this paper we develop methods to extend the minimal hypersurface approach to positive scalar curvature problems to all dimensions. This includes a proof of the positive mass theorem in all dimensions without a spin assumption. It also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Richard Schoen , Shing-Tung Yau

Motivated by the celebrated Schoen-Yau-Gromov-Lawson surgery theory on metrics of positive scalar curvature, we construct a double manifold associated with a minimal isoparametric hypersurface in the unit sphere. The resulting double…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Zizhou Tang , Yuquan Xie , Wenjiao Yan

We derive a positive mass theorem for asymptotically flat manifolds with boundary whose mean curvature satisfies a sharp estimate involving the conformal Green's function. The theorem also holds if the conformal Green's function is replaced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Sven Hirsch , Pengzi Miao

The purpose of this report is to acknowledge the influence of M. Gromov's vision of geometry on our own works. It is two-fold: in the first part we aim at describing some results, in dimension 3, around the question: which open 3-manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Gerard Besson , Sylvestre Gallot

We utilize a condition for algebraic curvature operators called surgery stability as suggested by the work of S. Hoelzel to investigate the space of riemannian metrics over closed manifolds satisfying these conditions. Our main result is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Jan-Bernhard Kordaß

We extend the vanishing theorem for the Seiberg-Witten invariants of a manifold with positive scalar curvature to the case when the curvature is allowed to be negative on a set of small volume. (The precise curvature bounds are described in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Ruberman

We study mean curvature flow of $n$-dimensional submanifolds of $S_K^{n+\ell}$, the round $(n+\ell)$-sphere of sectional curvature $K>0$, under the quadratic curvature pinching condition $|A|^{2} < \frac{1}{n-2}|H|^{2} + 4K$ when $n\geq 8$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Mat Langford , Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

Given a constant C and a smooth closed $(n-1)$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(\Sigma, g)$ equipped with a positive function $H$, a natural question to ask is whether this manifold can be realised as the boundary of a smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Stephen McCormick

In this paper, we prove a quantitative relative index theorem. It provides a conceptual framework for studying some conjectures and open questions of Gromov on positive scalar curvature. More precisely, we prove a $\lambda$-Lipschitz…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Zhizhang Xie

This paper develops a technique for applying one-parameter prescribed mean curvature min-max theory in certain non-compact manifolds. We give two main applications. First, fix a dimension $3\le n+1 \le 7$ and consider a smooth function…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Liam Mazurowski

We show an equivariant bordism principle for constructing metrics of positive scalar curvature that are invariant under a given group action. Furthermore, we develop a new codimension-2 surgery technique which removes singular strata from…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernhard Hanke

In this paper, we consider soliton solutions of the mean curvature flow in the unit sphere $S^{2n+1}$ moving along the integral curves of the Hopf unit vector field. While such solitons must necessarily be minimal if compact, we produce a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marco Magliaro , Luciano Mari , Fernanda Roing , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

In this paper I present a comparison theorem for the waist of Riemannian manifolds with positive sectional curvature. The main theorem of this paper gives a partial positive answer to a conjecture formulated by M.Gromov in [8]. The content…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-04 Yashar Memarian

In this note we show that a closed Riemannian manifold does not admit a fill-in with nonnegative scalar curvature if the mean curvature is point-wise large. Similar result also holds for fill-ins with a negative scalar curvature lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Pengzi Miao

Min-Oo's Conjecture is a positive curvature version of the positive mass theorem. Brendle, Marques, and Neves produced a perturbative counterexample to this conjecture. In 2021, Carlotto asked if it is possible to develop a novel gluing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Paul Sweeney

In this paper, we prove some convergence theorems for the mean curvature flow of closed submanifolds in the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+d}$ under integral curvature conditions. As a consequence, we obtain several differentiable sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Entao Zhao

We prove curvature-free versions of the celebrated Margulis Lemma. We are interested by both the algebraic aspects and the geometric ones, with however an emphasis on the second and we aim at giving quantitative (computable) estimates of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Gérard Besson , Gilles Courtois , Sylvestre Gallot , Andrea Sambusetti

We study mean curvature flow in $\mathbb S_K^{n+1}$, the round sphere of sectional curvature $K>0$, under the quadratic curvature pinching condition $|A|^{2} < \frac{1}{n-2} H^{2} + 4 K$ when $n\ge 4$ and $|A|^{2} <…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mat Langford , Huy The Nguyen

This is a continuation of our previous work with Botvinnik on the nontriviality of the secondary index invariant on spaces of metrics of positive scalar curvature, in which we take the fundamental group of the manifolds into account. We…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Johannes Ebert , Oscar Randal-Williams

The Weyl principle is extended from the Riemannian to the pseudo-Riemannian setting, and subsequently to manifolds equipped with generic symmetric $(0,2)$-tensors. More precisely, we construct a family of generalized curvature measures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Andreas Bernig , Dmitry Faifman , Gil Solanes