Mathematics – Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
2012-04-12
Mathematics
Differential Geometry
Scientific paper
In this paper we investigate complete critical metrics of the $L^{2}$-norm of the scalar curvature. We prove that any complete critical metric with positive scalar curvature has constant scalar curvature and we characterize complete critical metrics with nonnegative scalar curvature in dimension three and four. Moreover, by means of the estimates developed in the proof, we prove a rigidity result for static vacuum solutions in any dimension, which in turn implies that any complete $(0,n+1)$-Einstein manifold is Ricci flat.
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