A variational characterization of flat spaces in dimension three

DOI10.2140/PJM.2016.282.285MaRDI QIDQ265516zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Catino, Paolo Mastrolia, Dario D. Monticelli

Publication date 4 April 2016

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0990

zbMATH Keywords

critical metricsquadratic functionalsrigidity results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: In this short note we prove that, in dimension three, flat metrics are the only complete metrics with non-negative scalar curvature which are critical for the $sigm{a}_2$-curvature functional.

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• Rigidity of Einstein metrics as critical points of some quadratic curvature functionals on complete manifolds
• Three-dimensional homogeneous critical metrics for quadratic curvature functionals
• On the \(\sigma_2\)-curvature and volume of compact manifolds
• Rigidity of critical metrics for quadratic curvature functionals
• Critical metrics for all quadratic curvature functionals
• Some rigidity results on critical metrics for quadratic functionals

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