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Scalar curvature: rigidity and nonrigidity results

Presenter
November 2, 2011
Keywords:
  • Shiing-Shen Chern
  • differential geometry
  • Riemannian geometry
  • mathematical general relativity
  • positive mass theorem
  • curvature lower bounds
  • Cheeger inequalities
MSC:
  • 53-xx
  • 83Cxx
  • 83C40
  • 83C75
  • 53C27
  • 53C29
  • 53C42
  • 53C21
  • 53Cxx
Abstract
In this talk we will survey some recent rigidity and nonrigidity theorems for manifolds with lower bounded scalar curvature. These results are reminiscent of the celebrated Positive Mass Theorem of General Relativity. We will describe the counterexamples to Min-Oo's Conjecture for the hemisphere, and discuss some connections with properties of minimal surfaces and Ricci flow.