Min-Oo conjecture for fully nonlinear conformally invariant equations

DOI10.1002/CPA.21866zbMATH Open1430.53053arXiv1702.07077OpenAlexW2972253282WikidataQ122892494 ScholiaQ122892494MaRDI QIDQ5204883FDOQ5204883

Authors: José M. Espinar, Ezequiel R. Barbosa, Marcos P. Cavalcante 

Publication date: 5 December 2019

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we show rigidity results for super-solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic conformally invariant equations on subdomains of the standard $n$-sphere $mathbb{S}^n$ under suitable conditions along the boundary. We emphasize that our results do not assume concavity assumption on the fully nonlinear equations we will work with. This proves rigidity for compact connected locally conformally flat manifolds $(M,g)$ with boundary such that the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor satisfy a fully nonlinear elliptic inequality and whose boundary is isometric to a geodesic sphere $partialD(r)$, where $D(r)$ denotes a geodesic ball of radius $rin(0,pi/2]$ in $mathbb{S}^n$, and totally umbilical with mean curvature bounded below by the mean curvature of this geodesic sphere. Under the above conditions, $(M,g)$ must be isometric to the closed geodesic ball $overlineD(r)$. As a side product, in dimension $2$ our methods provide a new proof to Toponogov's Theorem about the rigidity of compact surfaces carrying a shortest simple geodesic. Roughly speaking, Toponogov's Theorem is equivalent to a rigidity theorem for spherical caps in the Hyperbolic three-space $mathbb{H}^3$. In fact, we extend it to obtain rigidity for super-solutions to certain Monge-Amp`ere equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07077

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zbMATH Keywords

supersolutionMonge-Ampère equationsstandard \(n\)-sphere \(\mathbb{S}^n\), Schouten tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Rigidity results (53C24) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

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