Abstract
We show that a Riemannian 3-manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature is flat if it contains an area-minimizing cylinder. This scalar-curvature analogue of the classical splitting theorem of J. Cheeger and D. Gromoll (1971) was conjectured by D. Fischer-Colbrie and R. Schoen (1980) and by M. Cai and G. Galloway (2000).
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1231-1242 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2019 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics