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48 results for Rigidity Conjecture

We give a survey on recent development of the Novikov conjecture and its applications to topological rigidity and non-rigidity. .

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Compact method proves Brown-York mass positivity and connects to major conjectures.

problem Proving positivity of Brown-York's mass and its connections to conjectures.
method Compact approach to proving mass positivity and exploring connections.
result Proved the positivity of Brown-York's mass and its relation to conjectures.

Prove Gromov's Euclidean endpoint C0C^0 rigidity conjecture for positive mass theorem.

problem Prove Gromov's Euclidean endpoint C0C^0 rigidity conjecture for positive mass theorem.
method Prove Gromov's Euclidean endpoint C0C^0 rigidity conjecture for positive mass theorem.
result Prove Gromov's Euclidean endpoint C0C^0 rigidity conjecture for positive mass theorem.

We survey the recent results and current issues on the topological rigidity problem for closed aspherical manifolds, i.e., connected closed manifolds whose universal coverings are contractible. A number of open problems and conjectures are presented during the course of the discussion. We also review the status and app…

2015-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proves rigidity of Doyle spirals in hexagonal lattice circle packings.

problem Proving Doyle conjecture for hexagonal lattice circle packings.
method Using Liouville theorem of discrete harmonic functions based on logarithmic radii ratio observation.
result Proves rigidity of Doyle spirals in hexagonal lattice circle packings with bounded radii ratios.

Inversive distance circle packing on surfaces was introduced by Bowers-Stephenson as a generalization of Thurston's circle packing and conjectured to be rigid. The infinitesimal and global rigidity of circle packing with nonnegative inversive distance were proved by Guo and Luo respectively. The author proved the globa…

2019-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper investigates several global rigidity issues for polyhedral surfaces including inversive distance circle packings. Inversive distance circle packings are polyhedral surfaces introduced by P. Bowers and K. Stephenson as a generalization of Andreev-Thurston's circle packing. They conjectured that inversive dist…

2010-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Inversive distance circle packing metric was introduced by P Bowers and K Stephenson \cite{BS} as a generalization of Thurston's circle packing metric \cite{T1}. They conjectured that the inversive distance circle packings are rigid. For nonnegative inversive distance, Guo \cite{Guo} proved the infinitesimal rigidity a…

2017-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves Green function rigidity for specific operators and obtains new ADM mass formula.

problem Proving Green function rigidity for specific operators and obtaining new ADM mass formula.
method Positive mass theorem and positive energy theorem for Paneitz operator.
result Obtained new formula for the ADM mass of asymptotically flat hypersurfaces.

Counterexample disproves key index computation in Gromov's conjecture paper.

problem Disproving an index computation in Gromov's conjecture paper.
method Constructing a counterexample to an index computation.
result Counterexample disproves the main result of the paper.

Researchers decompose curvature to confirm Hopf conjecture and prove new rigidity theorems.

problem Confirming the Hopf conjecture on compact Riemannian manifolds of even dimension.
method Decomposing the curvature operator into Hermitian components and developing eigenvalue criteria for sectional curvature.
result Prove vanishing theorems for Betti numbers under integral bounds on the Weyl tensor and confirm the Hopf conjecture for manifolds with sufficiently small Weyl curvature.

In this paper, we prove that every real analytic totally nondegenerate model CR manifold of length >= 3 has rigidity. This result was actually conjectured before by Valerii Beloshapka as the so-called "maximum conjecture". It follows that the transformation Lie group of all CR automorphisms associated with each of the …

2017-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New proof for global rigidity of vertex scaling on polyhedral surfaces.

problem Global rigidity of vertex scaling on polyhedral surfaces.
method Elementary variational proof based on continuity of eigenvalues and extension of convex functions.
result Global rigidity of vertex scaling proved without involving 3D hyperbolic geometry.

In this paper, we prove the global rigidity of sphere packings on 3-dimensional manifolds. This is a 3-dimensional analogue of the rigidity theorem of Andreev-Thurston and was conjectured by Cooper and Rivin. We also prove a global rigidity result using a combinatorial scalar curvature introduced by Ge and the author.

2016-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves a quantitative index theorem for positive scalar curvature metrics.

problem Studying conjectures and open questions on positive scalar curvature.
method Quantitative relative index theorem and λλ-Lipschitz rigidity theorem.
result Positive answers to Gromov's open questions on scalar curvature.

The paper explores rigidity theorems for spectral curvature bounds in 3-manifolds.

problem Classical rigidity results in scalar curvature geometry are extended to the spectral setting.
method Warped μμ-bubble method is systematically employed to classify stable weighted minimal hypersurfaces and establish band width estimates.
result Classification theorems and band width estimates for spectral Ricci and scalar curvatures are proven.

Proves rigidity of circle packings in the plane, generalizing previous work.

problem Rigidity of infinite inversive distance circle packings in the plane.
method Maximal principle for generic weighted Delaunay inversive distance circle packings and ring lemma for inversive distance circle packings in hexagonal triangulated plane.
result Proves Bowers-Stephenson's conjecture for inversive distance circle packings.

Paper studies a new curvature system and proves rigidity and gap theorems.

problem Extending CPE conjecture to manifolds with specific structures.
method Introduces (φCPE)(\varphi-\mathrm{CPE}) system and proves rigidity and gap theorems.
result Proves rigidity and gap theorems for (φCPE)(\varphi-\mathrm{CPE}) solutions.

Study Kähler-Einstein edge metrics on Hirzebruch surfaces, verifying a conjecture and finding a rigid singularity.

problem Verifying a conjecture about Kähler-Einstein edge metrics on Hirzebruch surfaces.
method Using the Calabi ansatz, constructing a family of metrics and studying their angle deformation.
result Verification of a conjecture and finding a rigid singularity.

Paper proves Simon's third gap conjecture for minimal surfaces in spheres.

problem Investigating the third gap problem in Simon's conjecture for minimal surfaces in unit spheres.
method Developed refined third-order Simons-type integral identities and established new lower bounds for curvature terms.
result Obtained positive gap results for the squared norm of the second fundamental form throughout the interval \(\left[\frac{5}{3},\frac{9}{5} ight]\).

Study geometric properties of generalized vacuum static spaces.

problem Estimating geometric properties of generalized φ\varphi-vacuum static spaces.
method Proving estimates for φ\varphi-scalar curvature and first eigenvalue of the Jacobi operator, and rigidity under various geometric assumptions.
result Proved a result related to the Cosmic no-hair conjecture.