Scalar curvature and asymptotic symmetric spaces

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0729-0MaRDI QIDQ731350zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 2 October 2009

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1832

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Rigidity results (53C24) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: A classic result by Gromov and Lawson states that a Riemannian metric of non--negative scalar curvature on the Torus must be flat. The analogous rigidity result for the standard sphere was shown by Llarull. Later Goette and Semmelmann generalized it to locally symmetric spaces of compact type and nontrivial Euler characteristic. In this paper we improve the results by Llarull and Goette, Semmelmann. In fact we show that if

(M, g_{0})

is a locally symmetric space of compact type with

c h i (M) e q 0

and

g

is a Riemannian metric on

M

with

m a t h r m {s c a l}_{g} c d o t g g e q m a t h r m {s c a l}_{0} c d o t g_{0}

, then

g

is a constant multiple of

g_{0}

. The previous results by Llarull and Goette, Semmelmann always needed the two inequalities

g g e q g_{0}

and

m a t h r m {s c a l}_{g} g e q m a t h r m {s c a l}_{0}

in order to conclude

g = g_{0}

. Moreover, if

(S^{2 m}, g_{0})

is the standard sphere, we improve this result further and show that any metric

g

on

S^{2 m}

of scalar curvature

m a t h r m {s c a l}_{g} g e q (2 m - 1) m a t h r m {t r}_{g} (g_{0})

is a constant multiple of

g_{0}

.

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