Scalar curvature and projective compactness

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2015.08.025zbMATH Open1328.53019arXiv1409.1698OpenAlexW1878945044WikidataQ57408540 ScholiaQ57408540MaRDI QIDQ893277FDOQ893277

Authors: Rod Gover, Andreas Cap 

Publication date: 13 November 2015

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Consider a manifold with boundary, and such that the interior is equipped with a pseudo-Riemannian metric. We prove that, under mild asymptotic non-vanishing conditions on the scalar curvature, if the Levi-Civita connection of the interior does not extend to the boundary (because for example the interior is complete) whereas its projective structure does, then the metric is projectively compact of order 2; this order is a measure of volume growth toward infinity. The result implies a host of results including that the metric satisfies asymptotic Einstein conditions, and induces a canonical conformal structure on the boundary. Underpinning this work is a new interpretation of scalar curvature in terms of projective geometry. This enables us to show that if the projective structure of a metric extends to the boundary then its scalar curvature also naturally and smoothly extends.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1698

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zbMATH Keywords

scalar curvaturepseudo-Riemannian metricgeometric compactificationprojective compactness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Projective connections (53B10) Overdetermined systems of PDEs with variable coefficients (35N10)

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