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Following Gromov, a Riemannian manifold is called area-extremal if any modification that increases scalar curvature must decrease the area of some tangent 2-plane. We prove that large classes of compact 4-manifolds, with or without boundary, with nonnegative sectional curvature are area-extremal. We also show that all regions of positive sectional curvature on 4-manifolds are locally area-extremal. These results are obtained analyzing sections in the kernel of a twisted Dirac operator constructed from pairs of metrics, and using the Finsler–Thorpe trick for sectional curvature bounds in dimension 4.
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The Weighted Connection and Sectional Curvature for Manifolds With Density
In this paper we study sectional curvature bounds for Riemannian manifolds with density from the perspective of a weighted torsion-free connection introduced recently by the last two authors. We develop two new tools for studying weighted sectional curvature bounds: a new weighted Rauch comparison theorem and a modified notion of convexity for distance functions. As applications we prove generalizations of theorems of Preissman and Byers for negative curvature, the (homeomorphic) quarter-pinched sphere theorem, and Cheeger’s finiteness theorem. We also improve results of the first two authors for spaces of positive weighted sectional curvature and symmetry.
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- PAR ID:
- 10058181
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Journal of Geometric Analysis
- ISSN:
- 1050-6926
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-018-0025-3
