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    Boundary regularity, uniqueness and non-uniqueness for AH Einstein metrics on 4-manifolds

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    This paper studies several aspects of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics, mostly on 4-manifolds. We prove boundary regularity (at infinity) for such metrics and establish uniqueness under natural conditions on the boundary data. By examination of explicit black hole metrics, it is shown that neither uniqueness nor finiteness holds in general for AH Einstein metrics with a prescribed conformal infinity. We then describe natural conditions which are sufficient to ensure finiteness.Comment: 33pp, gap in one proof fixed, exposition improved. To appear in Advances in Mat

    On the local rigidity of Einstein manifolds with convex boundary

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    Let (M, g) be a compact Einstein manifold with non-empty boundary. We prove that Killing fields at the boundary extend to Killing fields of any (M, g) provided the boundary is weakly convex and a simple condition on the fundamental group holds. This gives a new proof of the classical infinitesimal rigidity of convex surfaces in Euclidean space and generalizes the result to Einstein metrics of any dimension.Comment: withdrawn for reconstruction; error in "stability argument" on p.1
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