Anderson's generic regularity conjecture for the boundary map of Einstein 3-manifolds

Let Ω\Omega be a 33-dimensional manifold with smooth boundary Σ\Sigma satisfying π1(Ω,Σ)=0\pi_1(\Omega,\Sigma)=0. For fixed kk and α\alpha, let MΛk,α(Ω)\mathcal{M}^{k,\alpha}_\Lambda(\Omega) denote the moduli space of Einstein metrics with cosmological constant Λ\Lambda, modulo the group Dk+1,α(Ω)\mathscr D^{k+1,\alpha}(\Omega) of Ck+1,α\mathcal{C}^{k+1,\alpha} diffeomorphisms restricting to the identity on Σ\Sigma. For a metric gg, write gg^\intercal for its induced boundary metric, let [g][g^\intercal] be its conformal class, let HgH_g be its boundary mean curvature, and let S1k,α(Σ)\mathcal{S}_1^{k,\alpha}(\Sigma) be the space of conformal classes of Ck,α\mathcal{C}^{k,\alpha} Riemannian metrics on Σ\Sigma, identified with unit-determinant representatives. The boundary map is

Π:MΛk,α(Ω)/Dk+1,α(Ω)S1k,α(Σ)×Ck1,α(Σ),Π(g)=([g],Hg).\Pi:\mathcal{M}^{k,\alpha}_\Lambda(\Omega)/\mathscr D^{k+1,\alpha}(\Omega)\longrightarrow\mathcal{S}_1^{k,\alpha}(\Sigma)\times\operatorname{\mathcal{C}}^{k-1,\alpha}(\Sigma),\qquad \Pi(g)=([g^\intercal],H_g).

Anderson's conjecture. For each fixed Λ\Lambda, the boundary map Π\Pi is regular at generic metrics, meaning that its linearization is surjective with split kernel at those metrics.

Because Einstein metrics in dimension 33 have constant sectional curvature, they are more rigid than higher-dimensional Einstein metrics. The conjecture asserts that this rigidity does not prevent generic regularity of the boundary data map; its resolution is not supplied in the source, so it is recorded as open.

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Zhongshan An and Lan-Hsuan Huang, “Local structure theory of Einstein manifolds with boundary”, arXiv:2405.17577 (2024).

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