Smooth stability and sphere theorems for manifolds and Einstein manifolds with positive scalar curvature

DOI10.4310/CAG.2019.V27.N2.A8MaRDI QIDQ2321855zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Wiemeler, Wilderich Tuschmann

Publication date 26 August 2019

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3006

zbMATH Keywords

closed manifold of positive scalar curvaturedifferential rigiditydifferential stabilitylarge conjuguate radius or injectivity radius

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: Leon Green obtained remarkable rigidity results for manifolds of positive scalar curvature with large conjugate radius and/or injectivity radius. Using $C^{k,alpha}$ convergence techniques, we prove several differentiable stability and sphere theorem versions of these results and apply those also to the study of Einstein manifolds.

Review text

The authors study smooth closed manifolds whose mean value of the scalar curvature is at least that of the unit sphere of the same dimension. Motivated by a rigidity result from [\textit{L. W. Green}, Ann. Math. (2) 78, 289--299 (1963; Zbl 0116.13503)] for such manifolds whose conjuguate radius is equal to \(\pi\), they prove some ``differential stability and sphere theorem versions thereof. They first prove stability for such a manifold \(M\) of dimension \(n\) in the following sense: If the conjuguate radius \(\operatorname{Conj} M\) is sufficiently close to \(\pi\), then (under some additional technical assumptions), \(M\) is diffeomorphic to an \(n\)-dimensional spherical space form. To get that \(M\) is diffeomorphic to the standard unit \(n\)-sphere \(\mathbb{S}^n\), they further assume that the injectivity radius is close enough to \(\pi\). Then, as an application, the authors turn to closed \(n\)-dimensional manifolds of Ricci curvature at least \(n-1\). Under some limitation on the topology of \(M\) and technical assumptions, they prove that, if \(\operatorname{Conj} M\) is sufficiently close to \(\pi\), then \(M\) is diffeomorphic to an Einstein manifold with Einstein constant \(n-1\). They conjecture that such \(M\) should even be diffeomorphic to \(\mathbb{S}^{n}\), but prove it only when the sectional curvature is above a critical value. Their proofs use ``\(C^{k,\alpha}\) convergence techniques developed in particular by [\textit{M. T. Anderson}, Invent. Math. 102, No. 2, 429--445 (1990; Zbl 0711.53038)] and [\textit{M. T. Anderson} and \textit{J. Cheeger}, J. Differ. Geom. 35, No. 2, 265--281 (1992; Zbl 0774.53021)], and appropriate modifications of Green's original arguments along with convergence properties of the injectivity and conjugate radius.

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