Volume rigidity conjecture for closed hyperbolic manifolds

Let (Mn,gH)(M^n,g_H) be a closed hyperbolic nn-manifold with n5n\geq 5, and let gg be a Riemannian metric on MM satisfying

Scg=n(n1),Volg(Mn)=VolgH(Mn).\operatorname{Sc}_g=-n(n-1),\qquad \operatorname{Vol}_g(M^n)=\operatorname{Vol}_{g_H}(M^n).

Volume rigidity conjecture. The metric gg is isometric to the hyperbolic metric gHg_H.

This conjecture proposes rigidity at fixed negative scalar curvature and hyperbolic volume in dimensions at least five. The source provides no resolution of the conjecture.

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Primary source

Jialong Deng, “Scalar Curvature in Dimension 4”, arXiv:2512.13528 (2025).

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