Critical metrics of the volume functional on three-dimensional manifolds

Abstract: In this paper, we prove the three-dimensional $CPE$ conjecture with non-negative Ricci curvature. Moreover, we establish a classification result on three-dimensional vacuum static space with non-negative Ricci curvature. Finally, we show that a three-dimensional compact, oriented, connected Miao-Tam critical metric with smooth boundary, non-negative Ricci curvature and non-negative potential function is isometric to a geodesic ball in a simply connected space form $\mathbb{R}^3$ or $\mathbb{S}^3$.