Local and global scalar curvature rigidity of Einstein manifolds

• An Einstein manifold is called scalar curvature rigid if there are no compactly supported volume-preserving deformations of the metric which increase the scalar curvature. We give various characterizations of scalar curvature rigidity for open Einstein manifolds as well as for closed Einstein manifolds. As an application, we construct mass-decreasing deformations of the Riemannian Schwarzschild metric and the Taub–Bolt metric.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Geometri (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Geometry (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Matematik -- Beräkningsmatematik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Mathematics -- Computational Mathematics (hsv//eng)

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