Scalar curvature and singular metrics

06 Singular Minimal Hypersurfaces and Scalar Curvature

Finding obstructions to positive scalar curvature and getting structural insight is presently based on two competing approaches: one path which is most travelled works in the context of spin geometry and gives quite a direct link to topology (cf. [GL1-2] and [G]). The second, much less used but a priori more general method of attack analyzes minimal hypersurfaces within the manifold under consi...

Constant scalar curvature metrics with isolated singularities

We extend the results and methods of [6] to prove the existence of constant positive scalar curvature metrics g which are complete and conformal to the standard metric on S \ Λ, where Λ is a disjoint union of submanifolds of dimensions between 0 and (N − 2)/2. The existence of solutions with isolated singularities occupies the majority of the paper; their existence was previously established by...

Constant scalar curvature metrics on toric surfaces

Randers Metrics of Scalar Flag Curvature

We study an important class of Finsler metrics — Randers metrics. We classify Randers metrics of scalar flag curvature whose S-curvatures are isotropic. This class of Randers metrics contains all projectively flat Randers metrics with isotropic S-curvature and Randers metrics of constant flag curvature.

Mass and 3-metrics of Non-negative Scalar Curvature

Physicists believe, with some justification, that there should be a correspondence between familiar properties of Newtonian gravity and properties of solutions of the Einstein equations. The Positive Mass Theorem (PMT), first proved over twenty years ago [45, 53], is a remarkable testament to this faith. However, fundamental mathematical questions concerning mass in general relativity remain, a...