1. Rigidity of nonpositively curved manifolds with convex boundary.
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Ghomi, Mohammad and Spruck, Joel
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SPACES of constant curvature , *MINIMAL surfaces , *RIEMANNIAN manifolds , *CONVEX surfaces , *CONVEX domains - Abstract
We show that a compact Riemannian 3-manifold M with strictly convex simply connected boundary and sectional curvature K\leq a\leq 0 is isometric to a convex domain in a complete simply connected space of constant curvature a, provided that K\equiv 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\geq a\geq 0. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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