On the asymptotic behavior of Einstein manifolds with an integral bound on the Weyl curvature (Q2449413)

The authors investigate the behavior at infinity of some complete non-compact Einstein manifolds with negative scalar curvature, containing an essential set, whose Weyl curvature belongs to a certain \(L^p\)-space. More precisely, given a complete, non-compact Riemannian manifold \((X^n,g)\), an essential set is a non-empty subset \(\mathbb D\) of \(X\) such that \(\mathbb D\) is a compact domain with smooth and strictly convex boundary, \(\mathbb D\) is totally convex and the sectional curvature of \((X^n, g)\) is negative outside of \(\mathbb D\). Let \(Rm\) denote the Riemannian curvature of \((X^n,g)\), \(W\) the Weyl tensor and \(K\) the curvature tensor with constant sectional curvature \(-1\). The following main result is stated: Theorem 1. Let \((X^n,g)\), \(n\geq 7\), be a complete non-compact Einstein manifold with \(\mathrm{Ric}= -(n-1)g\). Assume that \(X^n\) contains an essential set \(\mathbb D\) and \(\| W\|_{L^p(X,g)}< \infty\), for some \(p\in(1,{n-1\over 2})\). Then, there exists a constant \(C\) such that \(|Rm- K|\leq Ce^{-(n+1)\rho}\), \(\rho= d_g(\mathbb D,\cdot)\) denoting the distance function for \(\mathbb D\). The proof of Theorem 1 is based on several technical lemmas, including an \(L^2\)-spectral estimate of the Laplace operator acting on Weyl-type tensors. As an application of the above theorem, one gets the following rigidity result. Theorem 2. Let \((X^n,g)\), \(n\geq 7\), be a complete non-compact Einstein manifold with an essential set. Assume that \(X^n\) is simply connected at infinity and \(\| W\|_{L^p(X,g)}< \infty\), for some \(p\in(1,{n-1\over 2})\). Then \((X^n,g)\) is isometric to the hyperbolic space. The paper ends with the description of the curvature behavior of vacuum static space-times with negative cosmological constant.