Extrema of curvature functionals on the space of metrics on 3-manifolds, II

dc.creatorAnderson, Michael T.
dc.date1999-12-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:33:01Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:33:01Z
dc.descriptionSeveral rigidity results are proved for critical points of natural Riemannian functionals on the space of metrics on 3-manifolds. Two of these results are as follows. Let (N, g) be a complete Riemannian 3-manifold, satisfying one of the following variational conditions: (i) (N, g) has non-negative scalar curvature and is a critical point for the L^2 norm of the full curvature R among compact perturbations of (N, g). (ii) (N, g) has non-negative scalar curvature, a free isometric S^1 action, and is a critical point of the L^2 norm of R among compact volume non-increasing perturbations of (N, g) with non-negative scalar curvature. In either case, (N, g) is flat. The Schwarzschild metric (on the space-like hypersurface) has an isometric S^1 action and satisfies the other assumptions in (ii), showing that this result is sharp.
dc.description45 pages, no figures. to appear in Calc.Var.&P.D.E
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912177
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9912177
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/99058
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subject58E11 58J60
dc.titleExtrema of curvature functionals on the space of metrics on 3-manifolds, II
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