Marques–Neves width stability conjecture for rotationally symmetric three-spheres

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Fix D,V<\finiteD,V<\finite. Suppose (S3,gk)(\mathbb S^3,g_k), k=1,2,k=1,2,\ldots, are Riemannian 3-spheres satisfying

Scalgk6(1k1),MinAgk4π(1k1),diamgk(S3)D,Volgk3(S3)V.\operatorname{Scal}_{g_k}\geqslant 6(1-k^{-1}),\qquad \operatorname{MinA}_{g_k}\geqslant 4\pi(1-k^{-1}),\qquad \operatorname{diam}_{g_k}(\mathbb S^3)\leqslant D,\qquad \operatorname{Vol}_{g_k}^3(\mathbb S^3)\leqslant V.

Marques–Neves' width stability conjecture. Then (S3,gk)(\mathbb S^3,g_k) converges in the Sormani–Wenger intrinsic flat sense to the round unit sphere (S3,grd)(\mathbb S^3,g_{rd}). The conjecture asks whether nearly sharp scalar-curvature and min-max-width bounds, together with uniform diameter and volume bounds, force convergence to the round metric; the paper proves this conjecture under rotational symmetry and extends the result to dimensions n3n\geqslant 3.

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Primary source

Hunter Stufflebeam and Paul Sweeney, “Width Stability of Rotationally Symmetric Metrics”, arXiv:2409.13646 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2301.01292.

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