The smooth Riemannian extension problem: completeness
arXiv:1601.05075
Abstract
By means of a general gluing and conformal-deformation construction, we prove that any smooth, metrically complete Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary can be realized as a closed domain into a smooth, geodesically complete Riemannan manifold without boundary. Applications to Sobolev spaces, Nash embedding and local extensions with strict curvature bounds are presented.
This paper has been included in arXiv:1606.08320 where we also consider the Riemannian extension problem under a control of the sectional and the Ricci curvatures