Volume comparison with respect to scalar curvature

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Abstract: In this article, we investigate the volume comparison with respect to scalar curvature. In particular, we show volume comparison holds for small geodesic balls of metrics near a V-static metric. For closed manifold, we prove the volume comparison for metrics near a strictly stable Einstein metric. As applications, we give a partial answer to a conjecture of Bray and recover a result of Besson, Courtois and Gallot, which partially confirms a conjecture of Schoen about closed hyperbolic manifold. Applying analogous techniques, we obtain a different proof of a local rigidity result due to Dai, Wang and Wei, which shows it admits no metric with positive scalar curvature near strictly stable Ricci-flat metrics.


Classical volume comparison theorems control the volume of a Riemannian manifold by the Ricci curvature. In general, the volume cannot be controlled by the scalar curvature only. In the present paper, the concept of a V-static metric, which can be viewed as a generalization of an Einstein metric or of a vacuum static metric, is used. Using this concept, a volume comparison theorem with respect to the scalar curvature for small geodesic balls is obtained. Another volume comparison theorem is obtained for Einstein metrics. As an application, alternative proofs of certain results and partial confirmations of conjectures are obtained.



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