Some rigidity results for static three-manifolds with boundary and positive scalar curvature

Abstract

This paper studies three-dimensional compact static manifolds with boundary and positive scalar curvature. We prove that, under a suitable bound on the Ricci curvature, the orientable quotient of the Nariai static manifold with boundary \(Nar_{-1,1}(\mathbb {S}^2)\) is the only such manifold with connected boundary, provided that the zero-level set of the potential is connected and does not intersect the boundary. We also establish a rigidity theorem for the upper hemisphere with the standard static potential, in the spirit of Cruz and Nunes.