Scalar curvature and projective compactness

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• 作者：Andreas Čap^a ; ^{Andreas.Cap@univie.ac.at" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; A. Rod Gover^b ; ^{r.gover@auckland.ac.nz" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：primary ; 53A20 ; 53B10 ; 53C21 ; secondary ; 35N10 ; 53A30 ; 58J60
• 刊名：Journal of Geometry and Physics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：98
• 期：Complete
• 页码：475-481
• 全文大小：391 K

文摘

Consider a manifold with boundary, and such that the interior is equipped with a pseudo-Riemannian metric. We prove that, under mild asymptotic non-vanishing conditions on the scalar curvature, if the Levi-Civita connection of the interior does not extend to the boundary (because for example the interior is complete) whereas its projective structure does, then the metric is projectively compact of order 2; this order is a measure of volume growth towards infinity. This implies a host of results including that the metric satisfies asymptotic Einstein conditions, and induces a canonical conformal structure on the boundary. Underpinning this work is a new interpretation of scalar curvature in terms of projective geometry. This enables us to show that if the projective structure of a metric extends to the boundary then its scalar curvature also naturally and smoothly extends.