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   Ghomi, Mohammad; Spruck, Joel (November 2023, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society)

   We show that a compact Riemannian $3$-manifold $M$with strictly convex simply connected boundary and sectional curvature $K\le <\#comment/>a\le <\#comment/>0$is isometric to a convex domain in a complete simply connected space of constant curvature $a$, provided that $K\equiv <\#comment/>a$on planes tangent to the boundary of $M$. This yields a characterization of strictly convex surfaces with minimal total curvature in Cartan-Hadamard $3$-manifolds, and extends some rigidity results of Greene-Wu, Gromov, and Schroeder-Strake. Our proof is based on a recent comparison formula for total curvature of Riemannian hypersurfaces, which also yields some dual results for $K\ge <\#comment/>a\ge <\#comment/>0$. 

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   We say a null-homologous knot $K$in a $3$-manifold $Y$has Property G, if the Thurston norm and fiberedness of the complement of $K$is preserved under the zero surgery on $K$. In this paper, we will show that, if the smooth $4$-genus of $K\times <\#comment/>\left\{0\right\}$(in a certain homology class) in $(Y\times <\#comment/>[0,1\left]\right)\mathrm{\#<\#comment/>}N\stackrel{¯<\#comment/>}{\mathbb{C}{P}^2}$, where $Y$is a rational homology sphere, is smaller than the Seifert genus of $K$, then $K$has Property G. When the smooth $4$-genus is $0$, $Y$can be taken to be any closed, oriented $3$-manifold. 

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