arXiv research

New findings on Chern flat metrics and their criticality.

Paper finds critical metrics with pinched curvature are geodesic balls.

In this paper we investigate complete critical metrics of the $L^{2}$-norm of the scalar curvature. We prove that any complete critical metric with positive scalar curvature has constant scalar curvature and we characterize critical metrics with nonnegative scalar curvature in dimension three and four.

New rigidity results for critical metrics of a quadratic curvature functional.

Researchers found all special metrics in 4D for certain curvature functionals.

Study critical metrics on manifolds with boundary using integral and boundary estimates.

The paper proves conditions under which critical point metrics are Einstein.

We disprove the generalized Chern-Hamilton conjecture on the existence of critical compatible metrics on contact $3$-manifolds. More precisely, we show that a contact $3$-manifold $(M,α)$ admits a critical compatible metric for the Chern-Hamilton energy functional if and only if it is Sasakian or its associated Reeb fl…

Rigidity theorem for special metrics on 4-manifolds.

In this article, we investigate the geometry of critical metrics of the volume functional on an $n$-dimensional compact manifold with (possibly disconnected) boundary. We establish sharp estimates to the mean curvature and area of the boundary components of critical metrics of the volume functional on a compact manifol…

In this paper we prove rigidity results on critical metrics for quadratic curvature functionals, involving the Ricci and the scalar curvature, on the space of Riemannian metrics with unit volume. It is well-known that Einstein metrics are always critical points. The purpose of this article is to show that, under some c…

The paper studies critical metrics on a specific type of manifold.

The paper classifies cosymplectic manifolds with critical metrics in dimension 3.

We study the space of smooth Riemannian structures on compact three-manifolds with boundary that satisfies a critical point equation associated with a boundary value problem, for simplicity, Miao-Tam critical metrics. We provide an estimate to the area of the boundary of Miao-Tam critical metrics on compact three-manif…

The paper classifies contact 3-manifolds with critical metrics and connects entropy to optimization.

In this paper, we investigate critical points of the Laplacian's eigenvalues considered as functionals on the space of Riemmannian metrics or a conformal class of metrics on a compact manifold. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a metric to be a critical point of such a functional. We derive specific con…

We provide an isoperimetric inequality for critical metrics of the volume functional with nonnegative scalar curvature on compact manifolds with boundary. In addition, we establish a Weitzenböck type formula for critical metrics of the volume functional on four-dimensional manifolds. As an application, we obtain a clas…

Study critical metrics on manifolds, proving specific isometries.

Extends Gauduchon's result to higher dimensions, showing balanced metrics.

The goal of this paper is to study weakly Einstein critical metrics of the volume functional on a compact manifold $M$ with smooth boundary $\partial M$. Here, we will give the complete classification for an $n$-dimensional, $n=3$ or $4,$ weakly Einstein critical metric of the volume functional with nonnegative scalar …

We study closed $n$-dimensional manifolds of which the metrics are critical for quadratic curvature functionals involving the Ricci curvature, the scalar curvature and the Riemannian curvature tensor on the space of Riemannian metrics with unit volume. Under some additional integral conditions, we classify such manifol…

New metrics found in hyperbolic manifolds as volume-minimizers.

New framework for studying eigenvalue functionals of metrics.

Let $M$ be a real hypersurface of a complex space form with constant curvature $c$. In this paper, we study the hypersurface $M$ admitting Miao-Tam critical metric, i.e. the induced metric $g$ on $M$ satisfies the equation:$-(Δ_gλ)g+\nabla^2_gλ-λRic=g$, where $λ$ is a smooth function on $M$. At first, for the case wher…

Critical metrics on four-dimensional manifolds are either Einstein or product of two-dimensional manifolds.

Ricci solitons as critical points of quadratic curvature functionals

Researchers confirm scalar-flatness for critical metrics in 5-9 dimensions.

The paper proves new rigidity results for critical metrics of quadratic curvature functionals.

Solves Besse conjecture on 3D manifolds, proving metric rigidity.

New rigidity results for critical metrics with curvature pinching.

We introduce a new critical value $c_\infty(L)$ for Tonelli Lagrangians $L$ on the tangent bundle of the 2-sphere without minimizing measures supported on a point. We show that $c_\infty(L)$ is strictly larger than the Mañé critical value $c(L)$, and on every energy level $e\in(c(L),c_\infty(L))$ there exist infinitely…

We study rigidity results for the Einstein metrics as the critical points of a family of known quadratic curvature functionals involving the scalar curvature, the Ricci curvature and the Riemannian curvature tensor, characterized by some pointwise inequalities involving the Weyl curvature and the traceless Ricci curvat…

We develop a gluing procedure designed to obtain canonical metrics on connected sums of Einstein four-manifolds. The main application is an existence result, using two well-known Einstein manifolds as building blocks: the Fubini-Study metric on $\mathbb{CP}^2$ and the product metric on $S^2 \times S^2$. Using these met…

Study stability of non-Kähler Calabi-Yau metrics using critical points of generalized Einstein Hilbert action.

Study on metrics maximizing eigenvalues of Paneitz operator on 4-manifolds.

Paper proves conjecture about Einstein metrics on manifolds with positive isotropic curvature.

We investigate rigidity and stability properties of critical points of quadratic curvature functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics. We show it is possible to "gauge" the Euler-Lagrange equations, in a self-adjoint fashion, to become elliptic. Fredholm theory may then be used to describe local properties of the m…

On a compact $n$-dimensional manifold $M$, it is well known that a critical metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with unit volume, is Einstein. It has been conjectured that a critical metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvat…

We prove that a critical metric of the volume functional on a $4$-dimensional compact manifold with boundary satisfying a second-order vanishing condition on the Weyl tensor must be isometric to a geodesic ball in a simply connected space form $\mathbb{R}^{4}$, $\mathbb{H}^{4}$ or $\mathbb{S}^{4}.$ Moreover, we provide…

Proves mass-capacity inequalities for critical area-normalized capacitors, improving Schwarzschild metric uniqueness.

New approach to $Z$-stability and critical metrics on Kähler manifolds.

The study examines metrics with unit volume or area on manifolds with boundaries, finding critical points and solving curvature problems.

Paper derives second variation formula for eigenvalue functionals on surfaces.

The aim of this paper is to classify three dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds $(M^{3},g)$ that admits a non-constant solution to the equation $-Δf g+Hess f-fRic=μRic+λg,$ for some special constants $(μ, λ)$, under assumption that the manifold has cyclic parallel Ricci tensor. Namely, the structures that we will…

New approach finds Kähler metrics on compact complex manifolds.

The article studies critical points of a new energy functional in higher dimensions.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical points of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of unitary volume, for simplicity CPE metrics. It was conjectured in $1980$'s that every CPE metric must be Einstein. We prove that a $4$-dimensional CPE…

On a compact $n$-dimensional manifold, it is well known that a critical metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with unit volume is Einstein. It has been conjectured that a critical metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature o…