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We study the spectrum of complete noncompact manifolds with bounded curvature and positive injectivity radius. We give general conditions which imply that their essential spectrum has an arbitrarily large finite number of gaps. In…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Richard Schoen , Hung Tran

In this paper, we consider a fully nonlinear problem on manifolds with boundaries of negative admissible curvatures. As a consequence, we conclude the existence of certain types of metrics on the general differential manifolds with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Aobing Li , Huan Zhu

This paper provides details of the construction, properties and some applications of the ambient metric associated to a conformal class of metrics on a smooth manifold. Existence and uniqueness of formal expansions defining such metrics are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-10-22 Charles Fefferman , C. Robin Graham

Let $(X, g^+)$ be an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold and $(M, [\hat{h}])$ its conformal infinity. Our primary aim in this paper is to introduce the prescribed fractional scalar curvature problem on $M$ and provide solutions under various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Seunghyeok Kim

We study the Yamabe problem on open manifolds of bounded geometry and show that under suitable assumptions there exist Yamabe metrics, i.e. conformal metrics of constant scalar curvature. For that, we use weighted Sobolev embeddings.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Nadine Große

This paper is about positive scalar curvature on a compact manifold $X$ with non-empty boundary $\partial X$. In some cases, we completely answer the question of when $X$ has a positive scalar curvature metric which is a product metric near…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Jonathan Rosenberg , Shmuel Weinberger

We study uniqueness of positive solutions to the conformal scalar curvature equation on complete Riemannian manifolds with constant negative scalar curvature. We apply the results to show that conformal transformations on certain complete…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Man Chun Leung

The aim of this paper is to give not only an explicit upper bound of the total Q-curvature but also an induced isoperimetric deficit formula for the complete conformal metrics on $\mathbb R^n$, $n\ge 3$ with scalar curvature being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-09 Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye , Jie Xiao

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian three-dimensional manifold with boundary. We prove the compactness of the set of scalar-flat metrics which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Sergio Almaraz , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Shaodong Wang

Substatic Riemannian manifolds with minimal boundary arise naturally in General Relativity as spatial slices of static spacetimes satisfying the Null Energy Condition. Moreover, they constitute a vast generalization of nonnegative Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Stefano Borghini , Mattia Fogagnolo

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$ with smooth boundary $\partial M$, admitting a scalar-flat conformal metric. We prove that the supremum of the isoperimetric ratio over the scalar-flat conformal class is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Xuezhang Chen , Tianling Jin , Yuping Ruan

This paper deals with quasi-local isoperimetric versions of the positive mass theorem on $3$-manifolds endowed with continuous complete metrics having nonnegative scalar curvature in a suitable weak sense. As a corollary, we derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Gioacchino Antonelli , Mattia Fogagnolo , Stefano Nardulli , Marco Pozzetta

The Yamabe problem concerns finding a conformal metric on a given closed Riemannian manifold so that it has constant scalar curvature. This paper concerns mainly a fully nonlinear version of the Yamabe problem and the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aobing Li , YanYan Li

In this paper, we bend a closed Riemannian manifold in the conformal class, through solving a fully nonlinear equation. As a result, we prove that each metric of quasi-negative Ricci curvature is conformal to a metric with negative Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Rirong Yuan

In this paper, we study the interplay of geometry and positive scalar curvature on a complete, non-compact manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature. In three-dimensional manifold, we prove a minimal volume growth, an estimate of integral…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Bo Zhu

We establish several nonuniqueness results for the problem of finding complete conformal metrics with constant (fourth-order) $Q$-curvature on compact and noncompact manifolds of dimension $\geq5$. Infinitely many branches of metrics with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Renato G. Bettiol , Paolo Piccione , Yannick Sire

On a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we study the set of conformal metrics of negative constant scalar curvature in the interior and positive constant mean curvature on the boundary. Working in the case of positive Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

Let $(M, g_0)$ be a closed 4-manifold with positive Yamabe invariant and with $L^2$-small Weyl curvature tensor. Let $g_1 \in [g_0]$ be any metric in the conformal class of $g_0$ whose scalar curvature is $L^2$-close to a constant. We prove…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Xianfu Liu , Zuoqin Wang

Given a metric defined on a manifold of dimension three, we study the problem of finding a conformal filling by a Poincar\'e-Einstein metric on a manifold of dimension four. We establish a compactness result for classes of conformally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Sun-Yung Alice Chang , Yuxin Ge

In this article, we first show that for all compact Riemannian manifolds with non-empty smooth boundary and dimension at least 3, there exists a metric, pointwise conformal to the original metric, with constant scalar curvature in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Jie Xu