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Monotonicity formulas for static metrics with non-zero cosmological constant. (English) Zbl 1444.35013

Dipierro, Serena (ed.), Contemporary research in elliptic PDEs and related topics. Based on lectures given during the INdAM intensive period, University of Bari, Bari, Italy, April 10 – June 9, 2017. Cham: Springer. Springer INdAM Ser. 33, 129-202 (2019).
Summary: In this paper we adopt the approach presented in [V. Agostiniani and L. Mazzieri, J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 104, No. 3, 561–586 (2015; Zbl 1326.35216); Commun. Math. Phys. 355, No. 1, 261–301 (2017; Zbl 1375.53090)] to study non-singular vacuum static space-times with non-zero cosmological constant. We introduce new integral quantities, and under suitable assumptions we prove their monotonicity along the level set flow of the static potential. We then show how to use these properties to derive a number of sharp geometric and analytic inequalities, whose equality case can be used to characterize the rotational symmetry of the underlying static solutions. As a consequence, we are able to prove some new uniqueness statements for the de Sitter and the anti-de Sitter metrics. In particular, we show that the de Sitter solution has the least possible surface gravity among three-dimensional static metrics with connected boundary and positive cosmological constant.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1419.35002].

MSC:

35B06 Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs
35N25 Overdetermined boundary value problems for PDEs and systems of PDEs
53C21 Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions
83C57 Black holes