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We glue two manifolds which have curvature operators at least k (in the sense of eigenvalues) along their common boundary. We show that if the sum of the second fundamental forms of the boundary is positive semidefinite, then the curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Arthur Schlichting

There is a conjecture that a complete Riemannian 3-manifold with bounded sectional curvature, and pointwise pinched nonnegative Ricci curvature, must be flat or compact. We show that this is true when the negative part (if any) of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-21 John Lott

We collect a few guesses on possible implications of a lower bound on the scalar curvature of a Riemannian manifold on the size and shape of this manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Misha Gromov

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

We prove some Liouville-type theorems for positive harmonic functions on compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary, thereby confirming some cases of Wang's conjecture (J. Geom. Anal. 31,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Xiaohan Cai

We prove some Liouville type theorems on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature and strictly convex boundary. This gives a nonlinear generalization in low dimension of the recent sharp lower bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Qianqiao Guo , Fengbo Hang , Xiaodong Wang

Let $M$ be a closed aspherical manifold. Assume that the rational strong Novikov conjecture holds for $\pi_1(M)$. We show that on any spin surgery of $M$ along a region whose induced homomorphism on the fundamental group is trivial, every…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Jinmin Wang

A gap in the proof of the main result in reference [1] in our original submission propagated into the constructions presented in the first version of our manuscript. In this version we give an alternative proof for the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Diego Corro , Fernando Galaz-Garcia

In this article we develope a spinorial proof of the Shi-Tam theorem for the positivity of the Brown-York mass without necessity of building non smooth infinite asymptotically flat hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space and use the positivity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 S. Montiel

We single out a notion of staticity which applies to any domain in hyperbolic space whose boundary is a non-compact totally umbilical hypersurface. For (time-symmetric) initial data sets modeled at infinity on any of these latter examples,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Sergio Almaraz , Levi Lopes de Lima

We prove that a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $m \geq 3$ with harmonic curvature and $\lfloor\frac{m-1}{2}\rfloor$-positive curvature operator has constant sectional curvature, extending the classical Tachibana theorem for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Giulio Colombo , Marco Mariani , Marco Rigoli

We prove a compactness theorem for metrics with Bounded Integral Curvature on a fixed closed surface $\Sigma$. As a corollary, we obtain a compactification of the space of Riemannian metrics with conical singularities, where an accumulation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Clément Debin

In this paper, we prove for $n\leq 7$ that if a differentiable $n$-manifold contains a relatively incompressible essential hypersurface in some class $\mathcal C_{deg}$, then it admits no complete metric with positive scalar curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Jie Chen , Peng Liu , Yuguang Shi , Jintian Zhu

We prove a formula involving the scalar curvature of a Riemannian manifold endowed with a distribution in terms of an adapted orthonormal frame for its tangent bundle. Using the formula, we then investigate the effect of collapsing the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Khoi Nguyen

In this paper, we prove a gap result for a locally conformally flat complete non-compact Riemannian manifold with bounded non-negative Ricci curvature and a scalar curvature average condition. We show that if it has positive Green function,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Li Ma

We show that any Riemannian metric conformal to the round metric on $S^n$, for $n\geq 4$, arises as a limit of a sequence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on $S^n$ in the sense of uniform convergence of Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Man-Chun Lee , Peter M. Topping

Using minimal hypersurfaces, we obtain topological obstructions to admitting complete metrics with positive scalar curvature on a given class of non-compact n-manifolds with n less than 8. We show that the Liouville theorem for a locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Martin Lesourd , Ryan Unger , Shing-Tung Yau

We show that an orientable 3-dimensional manifold M admits a complete riemannian metric of bounded geometry and uniformly pos- itive scalar curvature if and only if there exists a finite collection F of spherical space-forms such that M is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Laurent Bessières , Gérard Besson , Sylvain Maillot

An explicit lower bound for the mass of an asymptotically flat Riemannian 3-manifold is given in terms of linear growth harmonic functions and scalar curvature. As a consequence, a new proof of the positive mass theorem is achieved in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Hubert L. Bray , Demetre P. Kazaras , Marcus A. Khuri , Daniel L. Stern

We give a new proof for the local existence of a smooth isometric embedding of a smooth $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with nonzero Riemannian curvature tensor into $6$-dimensional Euclidean space. Our proof avoids the sophisticated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Gui-Qiang Chen , Jeanne Clelland , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang , Deane Yang