The Yamabe problem for almost Hermitian manifolds |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Heberto?del?RioEmail author Santiago?R?Simanca |
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Institution: | (1) Departamento de Matemáticas, CIMAT, Guanajuato, México;(2) Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 11794 Stony Brook, NY |
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Abstract: | The conformal class of a Hermitian metric g on a compact almost complex manifold (M2m, J) consists entirely of metrics that are Hermitian with respect to J. For each one of these metrics, we may define a J-twisted
version of the Ricci curvature, the J-Ricci curvature, and its corresponding trace, the J-scalar curvature sJ. We ask if the conformal class of g carries a metric with constant sJ, an almost Hermitian version of the usual Yamabe problem posed for the scalar curvature s. We answer our question in the
affirmative. In fact, we show that (2m−1)sJ−s=2(2m−1)W(ω, ω), where W is the Weyl tensor and ω is the fundamental form of g. Using techniques developed for the solution
of the problem for s, we construct an almost Hermitian Yamabe functional and its corresponding conformal invariant. This invariant
is bounded from above by a constant that only depends on the dimension of M, and when it is strictly less than the universal
bound, the problem has a solution that minimizes the almost complex Yamabe functional. By the relation above, we see that
when W (ω, ω) is negative at least one point, or identically zero, our problem has a solution that minimizes the almost Hermitian
Yamabe functional, and the universal bound is reached only in the case of the standard 6-sphere
equipped with a suitable almost complex structure. When W(ω, ω) is non-negative and not identically zero, we prove that the
conformal invariant is strictly less than the universal bound, thus solving the problem for this type of manifolds as well.
We discuss some applications. |
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Keywords: | Math Subject Classifications" target="_blank">Math Subject Classifications primary: 53C15 secondary: 53C21 53C55 58E11 |
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