On a fully nonlinear version of the Min-Oo Conjecture

Jose Espinar, IMPA

Please note:  This is an additional DGGA seminar for this date.  In this talk, we show rigidity results for super-solutions to fully nonlinear elliptic conformally invariant equations in subdomains of the standard n-sphere \sn under suitable conditions on the boundary.  This proves rigidity for compact connected locally conformally flat manifolds (M,g) with boundary such that the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor satisfy a fully nonlinear elliptic inequality and whose boundary is isometric to a geodesic sphere D(r), D(r) a geodesic ball of radius r(0,π/2] in Sn, and totally umbilic with mean curvature bounded bellow by the mean curvature of this geodesic sphere. Under the above conditions, (M,g) must be isometric to the closed geodesic ball ¯D(r). In particular, we recover the solution by F.M. Spiegel  to the Min-Oo conjecture for locally conformally flat manifolds.  As a side product, our methods in dimension 2 provide a new proof to a classical theorem of Toponogov. Roughly speaking, Toponogov's Theorem is equivalent to a rigidity theorem for spherical caps in the Hyperbolic three-space H3.  This is a joint work with E. Barbosa and M.P. Cavalcante.