Einstein manifolds with convex boundaries (Q5935725)

The author gives a partial extension of results of Nirenberg, Aleksandrov, Pogorelov and Labourie related to the question whether any metric \(h\) on the boundary \(\partial M\) of a compact 3-dimensional manifold \(M\) might be induced by a metric \(g\) on \(M\). More precisely, let \((M,\partial M)\) be a compact, \(C^{\infty}\) \((m+1)\)-dimensional manifold with boundary \((m\geq2)\). Let \(K_{\min}\), and \(K_{\max}\) be at each point of \(M\), the minimum and the maximum respectively of the sectional curvatures of an Einstein metric \(g_0\), with \(\text{ric}_{g_0}= mK_0g_0\), \(K_0<0\). If \(\partial M\) is strictly convex, umbilical, with a \(C^{\infty}\) induced metric \(h_0\) such that at each point \(K_{\max}\) is bounded from above by \(-2m(-K_0)/(3m+1)\) or \(K_{\min}\) is bounded from below by \(-4m(-K_0)/(3m+1)\), then there exists a neighbourhood \(U_0\) of \(h_0\) in the space of \(C^{\infty}\) metrics on \(\partial M\) such that each element \(h\) is induced by an Einstein metric \(g\) on \(M\) with \(\text{ric}_g= mK_0g\). A slightly weaker result applies to Ricci-flat manifolds as the pinching hypothesis for \(K_{\max}\) and \(K_{\min}\), applied to a Ricci-flat metric, implies that it is flat. These results provide various applications. For example one can use these results to understand Einstein deformations of ``fuchsianlike'' group actions on \(H^{m+1}\).