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Recent progress on geometric analysis and Riemannian geometry: Einstein manifolds with boundary

Presenter
October 22, 2024
Keywords:
  • mean curvature flow
  • Ricci flow
  • fully nonlinear flows
  • general relativity
  • mass
  • Ricci curvature
  • scalar curvature
  • sectional curvature
  • symmetry
  • Riemannian geometry
  • groups actions
  • minimal surfaces
  • stability
MSC:
  • 35-XX - Partial differential equations
  • 49-XX - Calculus of variations and optimal control
  • optimization
  • 53-XX - Differential geometry
  • 58-XX - Global analysis
  • analysis on manifolds
  • 83-XX - Relativity and gravitational theory
Abstract
We will talk about existence of Einstein metrics on manifolds with boundary, while prescribing the induced conformal metric and mean curvature of the boundary. In dimension 3, this becomes the existence of conformal embeddings of surfaces into constant sectional curvature space forms, with prescribed mean curvature. We will show existence of such conformal emebeddings near generic Einstein background. We will also discuss the existence question in higher dimensions, where things become more subtle and a non-degenerate boundary condition is used to construct metrics with nonpositive Einstein constant.