Conjectures on convergence and scalar curvature

C Sormani - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.10093, 2021 - World Scientific
Here we survey the compactness and geometric stability conjectures formulated by the
participants at the 2018 IAS Emerging Topics Workshop on Scalar Curvature and …

An extreme limit with nonnegative scalar

C Sormani, W Tian, C Wang - Nonlinear Analysis, 2024 - Elsevier
In 2014, Gromov vaguely conjectured that a sequence of manifolds with nonnegative scalar
curvature should have a subsequence which converges in some weak sense to a limit …

Properties of the null distance and spacetime convergence

B Allen, A Burtscher - International Mathematics Research …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The null distance for Lorentzian manifolds was recently introduced by Sormani and Vega.
Under mild assumptions on the time function of the spacetime, the null distance gives rise to …

Scalar curvature and intrinsic flat convergence

C Sormani - Measure theory in non-smooth spaces, 2017 - degruyter.com
Gromov proved that sequences of Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative sectional
curvature have subsequences which converge in the Gromov-Hausdor sense to Alexandrov …

Volume above distance below

B Allen, R Perales, C Sormani - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.01172, 2020 - arxiv.org
Given a pair of metric tensors $ g_1\ge g_0 $ on a Riemannian manifold, $ M $, it is well
known that $\operatorname {Vol} _1 (M)\ge\operatorname {Vol} _0 (M) $. Furthermore one …

Stability of graphical tori with almost nonnegative scalar curvature

AJ Cabrera Pacheco, C Ketterer, R Perales - Calculus of Variations and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract By works of Schoen–Yau and Gromov–Lawson any Riemannian manifold with
nonnegative scalar curvature and diffeomorphic to a torus is isometric to a flat torus. Gromov …

Intrinsic flat convergence of points and applications to stability of the positive mass theorem

LH Huang, DA Lee, R Perales - Annales Henri Poincare, 2022 - Springer
We prove results on intrinsic flat convergence of points—a concept first explored by Sormani
(Commun Anal Geom 26 (6): 1317–1373, 2018). In particular, we discuss compatibility with …

[HTML][HTML] The nonlinear stability of rotationally symmetric spaces with low regularity

PG LeFloch, C Sormani - Journal of Functional Analysis, 2015 - Elsevier
We consider rotationally symmetric spaces with low regularity, which we regard as integral
currents spaces or manifolds with Sobolev regularity that are assumed to have nonnegative …

Stability of the spacetime positive mass theorem in spherical symmetry

E Bryden, M Khuri, C Sormani - The Journal of Geometric Analysis, 2021 - Springer
The rigidity statement of the positive mass theorem asserts that an asymptotically flat initial
data set for the Einstein equations with zero ADM mass, and satisfying the dominant energy …

Contrasting various notions of convergence in geometric analysis

B Allen, C Sormani - Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 2019 - msp.org
We explore the distinctions between L p convergence of metric tensors on a fixed
Riemannian manifold versus Gromov–Hausdorff, uniform, and intrinsic flat convergence of …