Uniqueness of critical metrics for a quadratic curvature functional

Abstract: In this paper we prove new rigidity results for complete, possibly non-compact, critical metrics of the quadratic curvature functionals

m a t h f r a k S^{2} = i n t R_{g}^{2} d V_{g}

. We show that critical metrics

(M^{n}, g)

with finite energy are always scalar flat, i.e. a global minimum, provided

n g e q 10

or

7 l e q n l e q 9

and

M^{n}

has at least two ends.

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