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arxiv: 1611.04056 · v2 · pith:CLFSFKKLnew · submitted 2016-11-13 · 🧮 math.DG

Scalar curvature and singular metrics

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keywords sigmacompactoutsidesmootheinsteinleastcodimensioncurvature
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Let $M^n$, $n\ge3$, be a compact differentiable manifold with nonpositive Yamabe invariant $\sigma(M)$. Suppose $g_0$ is a continuous metric with $V(M, g_0)=1$, smooth outside a compact set $\Sigma$, and is in $W^{1,p}_{loc}$ for some $p>n$. Suppose the scalar curvature of $g_0$ is at least $\sigma(M)$ outside $\Sigma$. We prove that $g_0$ is Einstein outside $\Sigma$ if the codimension of $\Sigma$ is at least $2$. If in addition, $g_0$ is Lipschitz then $g_0$ is smooth and Einstein after a change the smooth structure. If $\Sigma$ is a compact embedded hypersurface, and $g_0$ is smooth up to $\Sigma$ from two sides of $\Sigma$, and if the difference of the mean curvatures along $\Sigma$ at two sides of $\Sigma$ has a fixed appropriate sign. Then $g_0$ is also Einstein outside $\Sigma$. For manifolds with dimension between $3$ and $7$ without spin assumption, we obtain a positive mass theorem on an asymptotically flat manifold for metrics with a compact singular set of codimension at least $2$.

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