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We affirm the rigidity conjecture of the spacetime positive mass theorem in dimensions less than eight. Namely, if an asymptotically flat initial data set satisfies the dominant energy condition and has $E=|P|$, then $E=|P|=0$, where $(E,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Lan-Hsuan Huang , Dan A. Lee

Let $G$ be a compact connected Lie group and $H$ a closed subgroup of $G$. Suppose the homogeneous space $G/H$ is effective and has dimension 3 or higher. Consider a $G$-invariant, symmetric, positive-semidefinite, nonzero (0,2)-tensor…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Artem Pulemotov

In this paper, we study the topological rigidity and its relationship with the positivity of scalar curvature. Precisely, we show that any complete contractible $3$-manifold with non-negative scalar curvature is homeomorphic to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Jian Wang

We prove the positive mass theorem for manifolds with distributional curvature which have been studied in \cite{Lee2015} without spin condition. In our case, the manifold $M$ has asymptotically flat metric $g\in C^0\bigcap W^{1,p}_{-q}$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Yuqiao Li

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

This paper is devoted to the study of a problem arising from a geometric context, namely the conformal deformation of a Riemannian metric to a scalar flat one having constant mean curvature on the boundary. By means of blow-up analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Veronica Felli , Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

We prove a Riemannian positive mass theorem for manifolds with a single asymptotically flat end, but otherwise arbitrary other ends, which can be incomplete and contain negative scalar curvature. The incompleteness and negativity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Martin Lesourd , Ryan Unger , Shing-Tung Yau

Let G be a n-dimensional Lie group (n>2) with a bi-invariant Riemannian metric. We prove that if a surface of constant Gaussian curvature in G can be expressed as the product of two curves, then it must be flat. In particular, we can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Xu Han , Zhonghua Hou

Let $ X $ be a closed, oriented Riemannian manifold. Denote by $ (M = X \times I, \partial M = X \times \lbrace 0 \rbrace \cup X \times \lbrace 1 \rbrace, g) $ a compact cylinder with smooth boundary, $ \dim M \geqslant 3 $. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jie Xu

We study the rigidity of Ricci-flat manifolds with quadratic curvature decay under conditions on the Green function. We show that if the gradient of the Green function is uniformly bounded from below, then the manifold is flat. Furthermore,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Sanghoon Lee , Jiewon Park

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

Let $(M,g)$ be an $n-$dimensional compact Riemannian manifold. Let $h$ be a smooth function on $M$ and assume that it has a critical point $\xi\in M$ such that $h(\xi)=0$ and which satisfies a suitable flatness assumption. We are interested…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Angela Pistoia , Carlos Román

Let $(u, \pi)$ with $u=(u_1,u_2,u_3)$ be a suitable weak solution of the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in $\mathbb{R}^3\times [0, T]$. Denote by $\dot{\mathcal{B}}^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}$ the closure of $C_0^\infty$ in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Zhouyu Li , Daoguo Zhou

It is shown that any smooth strictly convex global solution of $$\det(\frac{\partial^{2}u}{\partial \xi_{i}\partial \xi_{j}}) = \exp \left\{-\sum_{i=1}^n d_i \frac{\partial u}{\partial \xi_{i}} - d_0\right\},$$ where $d_0$, $d_1$,...,$d_n$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-22 An-Min Li , Ruiwei Xu

Given a smooth function $f(x)$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ which is positive somewhere and satisfies $f(x)=O(|x|^{-l})$ for any $l>\frac{n}{2}$, we show that there exists a complete and conformal metric $g=e^{2u}|dx|^2$ with finite total Q-curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Mingxiang Li , Biao Ma

In this paper, for any compact Lie group $G$, we show that the space of $G$-invariant Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature (PSC) on any closed three-manifold is either empty or contractible. In particular, we prove the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow , Yangyang Li

This article establishes a low-regularity Riemannian positive mass theorem for non-spin manifolds whose metrics are only $C^0 \cap W_{\mathrm{loc}}^{1,n}$ and smooth outside a compact set. The main theorem asserts that asymptotically flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Eduardo Hafemann

The rigidity statement of the positive mass theorem asserts that an asymptotically flat initial data set for the Einstein equations with zero ADM mass, and satisfying the dominant energy condition, must arise from an embedding into…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Edward Bryden , Marcus Khuri , Christina Sormani

Let $ X $ be an oriented, closed manifold with $ \dim X \geqslant 2 $. Let $ (Z, \partial Z) $ be an oriented, compact manifold with (possibly empty) smooth boundary and $ \dim Z \geqslant 2 $. In this article, we show that if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jie Xu

We study the equation $\Delta_g u -\frac{n-2}{4(n-1)}R(g)u+Ku^p=0 (1+\zeta \leq p \leq \frac{n+2}{n-2})$ on locally conformally flat compact manifolds $(M^n,g)$. We prove the following: (i) When the scalar curvature $R(g)>0$ and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yu Yan