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Let $g$ be a complete, asymptotically flat metric on $\mathbb{R}^3$ with vanishing scalar curvature. Moreover, assume that $(\mathbb{R}^3,g)$ supports a nearly Euclidean $L^2$ Sobolev inequality. We prove that $(\mathbb{R}^3,g)$ must be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Liam Mazurowski , Xuan Yao

This is the second article of a series of our recent works, addressing an open question of Bonk-Heinonen-Koskela [3], to study the relationship between (inner) uniformality and Gromov hyperbolicity in infinite dimensional spaces. Our main…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Chang-Yu Guo , Manzi Huang , Yaxiang Li , Xiantao Wang

In 2014, Gromov conjectured that sequences of manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature should have subsequences which converge in some geometric sense to limit spaces with some notion of generalized nonnegative scalar curvature. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Christina Sormani , Wenchuan Tian , Wai-Ho Yeung

Two positive scalar curvature metrics $g_0$, $g_1$ on a manifold $M$ are psc-isotopic if they are homotopic through metrics of positive scalar curvature. It is well known that if two metrics $g_0$, $g_1$ of positive scalar curvature on a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Boris Botvinnik

Let $(M,g)$ be a closed connected oriented (possibly non-spin) smooth four-dimensional manifold with scalar curvature bounded below by $n(n-1)$. In this paper, we prove that if $f$ is a smooth map of non-zero degree from $(M, g)$ to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Simone Cecchini , Jinmin Wang , Zhizhang Xie , Bo Zhu

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

In this work we construct a sequence of Riemannian metrics on the three-sphere with scalar curvature greater than or equal to $6$ and arbitrarily large widths. Our procedure is based on the connected sum construction of positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Rafael Montezuma

The relative isoperimetric inequality inside an open, convex cone $\mathcal C$ states that, at fixed volume, $B_r \cap \mathcal C$ minimizes the perimeter inside $\mathcal C$. Starting from the observation that this result can be recovered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-12 Alessio Figalli , Emanuel Indrei

We analyze finite element discretizations of scalar curvature in dimension $N \ge 2$. Our analysis focuses on piecewise polynomial interpolants of a smooth Riemannian metric $g$ on a simplicial triangulation of a polyhedral domain $\Omega…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Evan S. Gawlik , Michael Neunteufel

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

We consider the case with boundary of the classical Kazdan-Warner problem in dimension greater or equal than three, i.e. the prescription of scalar and boundary mean curvatures via conformal deformations of the metric. We deal in particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-12 S. Cruz-Blázquez , A. Malchiodi , D. Ruiz

Inspired by Goette-Semmelmann \cite{GSSU2002}, we derive an estimate for the scalar curvature without a nonnegativity assumption on curvature operator. As an application, we show that, on an even dimensional closed manifold with nonzero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Yukai Sun , Changliang Wang

We study compactness properties of the set of conformally flat singular metrics with constant, positive sixth order Q-curvature on a finitely punctured sphere. Based on a recent classification of the local asymptotic behavior near isolated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-01 João Henrique Andrade , João Marcos do Ò , Jesse Ratzkin , Juncheng Wei

We introduce an intrinsic estimator for the scalar curvature of a data set presented as a finite metric space. Our estimator depends only on the metric structure of the data and not on an embedding in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-14 Abigail Hickok , Andrew J. Blumberg

On finite-volume hyperbolic $3$-manifolds, we compare volumes of different metrics using the exponential convergence of Ricci-DeTurck flow toward the hyperbolic metric $h_0$. We prove that among metrics with scalar curvature bounded below…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Ruojing Jiang , Franco Vargas Pallete

We prove the existence of $C^{1,1}$ isometric immersions of several classes of metrics on surfaces $(\mathcal{M},g)$ into the three-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^3$, where the metrics $g$ have strictly negative curvature. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Siran Li

We show scalar-mean curvature rigidity of warped products of round spheres of dimension at least 2 over compact intervals equipped with strictly log-concave warping functions. This generalizes earlier results of Cecchini-Zeidler to all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Christian Baer , Simon Brendle , Bernhard Hanke , Yipeng Wang

We perform numerical simulations of the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field. For those data that just barely do not form black holes we find the maximum curvature at the position of the central observer. We find a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 David Garfinkle , G. Comer Duncan

Herein we present open problems and survey examples and theorems concerning sequences of Riemannian manifolds with uniform lower bounds on scalar curvature and their limit spaces. Examples of Gromov and of Ilmanen which naturally ought to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Christina Sormani

We consider conformal deformations within a class of incomplete Riemannian metrics which generalize conic orbifold singularities by allowing both warping and any compact manifold (not just quotients of the sphere) to be the "link" of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Thalia Jeffres , Julie Rowlett