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In this paper we prove new rigidity results for complete, possibly non-compact, critical metrics of the quadratic curvature functionals $\mathfrak{F}^{2}_t = \int |\operatorname{Ric}_g|^{2} dV_g + t \int R^{2}_g dV_g$, $t\in\mathbb{R}$, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Dario Daniele Monticelli

It is well known that any measure in S^2 satisfying certain simple conditions is the surface measure of a bounded convex body in R^3. It is also known that a local perturbation of the surface measure may lead to a nonlocal perturbation of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Alexander Plakhov

Among all metrics on $\mathbb S^d$ with $d>4$ that are conformal to the standard metric and have positive scalar curvature, the total $\sigma_2$-curvature, normalized by the volume, is uniquely (up to M\"obius transformations) minimized by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Rupert L. Frank , Jonas W. Peteranderl

We derive general structure and rigidity theorems for submetries $f: M \to X$, where $M$ is a Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature $\sec M \ge 1$. When applied to a non-trivial Riemannian submersion, it follows that $diam X \leq…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Xiaoyang Chen , Karsten Grove

We establish a link between rational homotopy theory and the problem which vector bundles admit complete Riemannian metric of nonnegative sectional curvature. As an application, we show for a large class of simply-connected nonnegatively…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Igor Belegradek , Vitali Kapovitch

The conullity of a curvature tensor is the codimension of its kernel. We consider the cases of conullity two in any dimension and conullity three in dimension four. We show that these conditions are compatible with non-negative sectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Thomas G. Brooks

We study compact complex 3-manifolds admitting holomorphic Riemannian metrics. We prove a uniformization result: up to a finite unramified cover, such a manifold admits a holomorphic Riemannian metric of constant sectionnal curvature.

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We call a complement of a union of at least three disjoint (round) open balls in the unit sphere S^n a Schottky set. We prove that every quasisymmetric homeomorphism of a Schottky set of spherical measure zero to another Schottky set is the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-02-23 Mario Bonk , Bruce Kleiner , Sergei Merenkov

The main scalar-mean extremality and rigidity results in the existing literature concern manifolds whose curvature operators are nonnegative, or warped product spaces with a log-concave warping function whose leaves carry metrics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Jinmin Wang , Zhizhang Xie

In this work we consider periodic spherically symmetric metrics of constant positive scalar curvature on the n-dimensional cylinder called pseudo-cylindric metrics. These metrics belong to the conformal class $[g_0]$ of the Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Raouf Chouikha

We classify closed, simply-connected non-negatively curved 5-manifolds admitting an (almost) effective, isometric $T^3$ or $T^2$ action. As a direct consequence, we show that for any manifold, of dimensions up to and including 9 under the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Fernando Galaz-Garcia , Catherine Searle

In this paper we will show the following result: Let $\mathcal{N} $ be a complete (noncompact) connected orientable Riemannian three-manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature $S \geq 0$ and bounded sectional curvature $ K_{s} \leq K $.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Jose M. Espinar

We construct for any smooth projective curve of genus $q\ge 2$ with a fixed point free automorphism a nonisotrivial family of curves. Moreover we study the space of modular curves and that of parameters.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Dajano Tossici , Francesca Vetro

Let M be a compact manifold with boundary. In this paper, we discuss some rigidity theorems of metrics in a same conformal class that fixes the boundary and satisfy certain integral conditions on the the scalar curvatures and the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Ezequiel Barbosa , Heudson Mirandola , Feliciano Vitorio

We classify manifolds of small dimension that admit both, a Riemannian metric of non-negative scalar curvature, and a -- a priori different -- metric for which all wedge products of harmonic forms are harmonic. For manifolds whose first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-09 D. Kotschick

In this paper, we are going to show some rigidity results for complete open Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature. Without using the famous Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem we give a new proof to a rigidity result for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Jintian Zhu

We classify left invariant metrics with nonnegative curvature on SO(3) and U(2).

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nathan Brown , Rachel Finck , Matthew Spencer , Kristopher Tapp , Zhongtao Wu

In contrast to the homogeneous case, we show that there are compact cohomogeneity one manifolds, that do not support invariant metrics of non-negative sectional curvature. In fact we exhibit infinite families of such manifolds including the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Grove , B. Wilking , L. Verdiani , W. Ziller

We study rigidity results for the Einstein metrics as the critical points of a family of known quadratic curvature functionals involving the scalar curvature, the Ricci curvature and the Riemannian curvature tensor, characterized by some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Bingqing Ma , Guangyue Huang , Jie Yang

We use certain Morse functions to construct conformal metrics such that the eigenvalue vector of modified Schouten tensor belongs to a given cone. As a result, we prove that any Riemannian metric on compact 3-manifolds with boundary is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Rirong Yuan