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Rigidity in dimension four of area-minimising Einstein manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

A. BARROS ,
C. CRUZ ,
R. BATISTA  and
P. SOUSA
A. BARROS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60455-760 - Fortaleza-CE, Brazil. e-mail: abbarros@mat.ufc.br, tiarlos@mat.ufc.br
C. CRUZ
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Universidade Federal do Ceará, 60455-760 - Fortaleza-CE, Brazil. e-mail: abbarros@mat.ufc.br, tiarlos@mat.ufc.br
R. BATISTA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Universidade Federal do Piauí, 64049-550 - Teresina-PI, Brazil. e-mail: marcolino@ufpi.edu.br, e-mail: paulosousa@ufpi.edu.br
P. SOUSA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Universidade Federal do Piauí, 64049-550 - Teresina-PI, Brazil. e-mail: marcolino@ufpi.edu.br, e-mail: paulosousa@ufpi.edu.br
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to prove a sharp inequality for the area of a four dimensional compact Einstein manifold (Σ, gΣ) embedded into a complete five dimensional manifold (M5, g) with positive scalar curvature R and nonnegative Ricci curvature. Under a suitable choice, we have $area(\Sigma)^{\frac{1}{2}}\inf_{M}R \leq 8\sqrt{6}\pi$. Moreover, occurring equality we deduce that (Σ, gΣ) is isometric to a standard sphere ($\mathbb{S}$4, gcan) and in a neighbourhood of Σ, (M5, g) splits as ((-ϵ, ϵ) × $\mathbb{S}$4, dt2 + gcan) and the Riemannian covering of (M5, g) is isometric to $\Bbb{R}$ × $\mathbb{S}$4.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 158 , Issue 2 , March 2015 , pp. 355 - 363
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2015 

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