Mass-Capacity Inequalities for Conformally Flat Manifolds with Boundary

In this paper we prove a mass-capacity inequality and a volumetric Penrose inequality for conformally flat manifolds, in arbitrary dimensions. As a by-product of the proofs, capacity and Aleksandrov-Fenchel inequalities for mean-convex Euclidean domains are obtained. For each inequality, the case of equality is characterized.     

On Conformally Flat Almost Contact Metric Manifolds

Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics - In this paper, we first focus on conformally flat almost $${C(\alpha)}$$ -manifolds. Moreover, we construct an example of a 3-dimensional conformally flat...     

Near-Equality of the Penrose Inequality for Rotationally Symmetric Riemannian Manifolds

This article is the sequel to Lee and Sormani (Stability of the Positive Mass Theorem for Rotationally Symmetric Riemannian Manifolds, 2011. Preprint), which dealt with the near-equality case of the Positive Mass Theorem. We study the near-equality case of the Penrose Inequality for the class of complete asymptotically flat rotationally symmetric Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature whose boundaries are outermost minimal hypersurfaces. Specifically, we prove that if the Penrose Inequality is sufficiently close to being an equality on one of these manifolds, then it must be close to a Schwarzschild space with an appended cylinder, in the sense of Lipschitz distance. Since the Lipschitz distance bounds the intrinsic flat distance on compact sets, we also obtain a result for intrinsic flat distance, which is a more appropriate distance for more general near-equality results, as discussed in Lee and Sormani (Stability of the Positive Mass Theorem for Rotationally Symmetric Riemannian Manifolds, 2011. Preprint).     

The Isoperimetric Inequality on Manifolds of Conformally Hyperbolic Type

We prove that the maximal isoperimetric function on a Riemannian manifold of conformally hyperbolic type can be reduced to the linear canonical form P(x) = x by a conformal change of the Riemannian metric. In other words, the isoperimetric inequality , relating the volume V(D) of a domain D to the area of its boundary, can be reduced to the form , known for the Lobachevskii hyperbolic space.     

Time-Extremal Navigation in Arbitrary Winds on Conformally Flat Riemannian Manifolds

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications - This paper aims at solving Zermelo’s navigation problem on conformally flat Riemannian manifolds admitting a ship’s variable...     

M-Eigenvalues of the Riemann Curvature Tensor of Conformally Flat Manifolds

We investigate the M-eigenvalues of the Riemann curvature tensor in the higher dimensional conformally flat manifold. The expressions of Meigenvalues and M-eigenvectors are presented in this paper. As a special case,M-eigenvalues of conformal flat Einstein manifold have also been discussed,and the conformal the invariance of M-eigentriple has been found. We also reveal the relationship between M-eigenvalue and sectional curvature of a Riemannian manifold. We prove that the M-eigenvalue can determine the Riemann curvature tensor uniquely. We also give an example to compute the Meigentriple of de Sitter spacetime which is well-known in general relativity.     

具有两个不同Ricci主曲率的局部共形平坦Riemann流形

得到了具有常m阶Schouten曲率与两个不同Schouten主曲率(或者等价地,两个不同Ricci上曲率)的完备局部共形平坦Riemann流形的分类结果.作为应用,得到了若干Schouten张量的pinching性质.     

具有两个不同Ricci主曲率的局部共形平坦Riemann流形

得到了具有常m阶Schouten曲率与两个不同Schouten主曲率(或者等价地,两个不同Ricci主曲率)的完备局部共形平坦Riemann流形的分类结果.作为应用,得到了若干Schouten张量的pinching性质.     

Conformally Flat Semi-Riemannian Manifolds with Nilpotent Ricci Operators and Affine Differential Geometry

We investigate the conformally flat semi-Riemannian manifolds withnilpotent Ricci operators. We construct a lot of complete orhomogeneous, conformally flat semi-Riemannian manifolds with nilpotentRicci operators. In this construction, we show interesting relationsbetween the semi-Riemannian geometry and the affine differentialgeometry of centro-affine hypersurfaces.     

Vanishing Theorems for Conformally Compact Manifolds

Abstract

We study L ² harmonic p-forms on conformally compact manifolds with a rather weak boundary regularity assumption. We proved that if the lower bound of the curvature operator is great than or equal to ?1 and the infimum of the L ² spectrum of the Laplacian great than p(n ? p) for some p ≤ n/2, then there is no nontrivial L ² harmonic p-form.     

共形对称的K—切触流形

本文建立了共形平坦的K－切触流形的纯量曲率适合的偏微分方程，证得：共形对称的K－切触流形是具常曲率1的Riemann流形，将Okumura和Miyazaawa等人的有关Sasaki流形的结果推广到K－切触流形。     

Polar Transform of Conformally Flat Metrics

In the theory of convex subsets in a Euclidean space, an important role is played by Minkowski duality (the polar transform of a convex set, or the Legendre transform of a convex set). We consider conformally flat Riemannian metrics on the n-dimensional unit sphere and their embeddings into the isotropic cone of the Lorentz space. For a given class of metrics, we define and carry out a detailed study of the Legendre transform.     

Conformally Flat Hypersurfaces of E4

We consider 3-dimensional conformally flat hypersurfaces of E ⁴ with 2 different principal curvatures such that the coordinate directions are principal directions. We describe explicitly those which allow an immersion with constant mean curvature. They are shown to be in close correspondence with solutions of the nonlinear integrable sine-Gordon and sinh-Gordon equations. Conversely, this provides a geometrical characterization for this particular class of conformally flat hypersurfaces of E ⁴.     

Laplacian Operators and Q-curvature on Conformally Einstein Manifolds

A new definition of canonical conformal differential operators P _k (k = 1,2,...), with leading term a kth power of the Laplacian, is given for conformally Einstein manifolds of any signature. These act between density bundles and, more generally, between weighted tractor bundles of any rank. By construction these factor into a power of a fundamental Laplacian associated to Einstein metrics. There are natural conformal Laplacian operators on density bundles due to Graham–Jenne–Mason–Sparling (GJMS). It is shown that on conformally Einstein manifolds these agree with the P _k operators and hence on Einstein manifolds the GJMS operators factor into a product of second-order Laplacian type operators. In even dimension n the GJMS operators are defined only for 1 ≤ k ≤ n/2 and so, on conformally Einstein manifolds, the P _k give an extension of this family of operators to operators of all even orders. For n even and k > n/2 the operators P _k are each given by a natural formula in terms of an Einstein metric but they are not natural conformally invariant operators in the usual sense. They are shown to be nevertheless canonical objects on conformally Einstein structures. There are generalisations of these results to operators between weighted tractor bundles. It is shown that on Einstein manifolds the Branson Q-curvature is constant and an explicit formula for the constant is given in terms of the scalar curvature. As part of development, conformally invariant tractor equations equivalent to the conformal Killing equation are presented.     

Locally Conformally Flat Lorentzian Gradient Ricci Solitons

It is shown that locally conformally flat Lorentzian gradient Ricci solitons are locally isometric to a Robertson–Walker warped product, if the gradient of the potential function is nonnull, and to a plane wave, if the gradient of the potential function is null. The latter gradient Ricci solitons are necessarily steady.     

共形平坦空间的极小子流形

S.S.Chern,M.Do Carmo和S.Kobayashi在[1]文中讨论了S^n+p(1)中的紧致极小子流形。本文将[1]中的结论推广到了共形平坦空间.     

Biharmonic Hypersurfaces in a Conformally Flat Space

Biharmonic hypersurfaces in a generic conformally flat space are studied in this paper. The equation of such hypersurfaces is derived and used to determine the conformally flat metric ${f^{-2}\delta_{ij}}$ on the Euclidean space ${\mathbb{R}^{m+1}}$ so that a minimal hypersurface ${M^{m}\longrightarrow (\mathbb{R}^{m+1}, \delta_{ij})}$ in a Euclidean space becomes a biharmonic hypersurface ${M^m\longrightarrow (\mathbb{R}^{m+1}, f^{-2}\delta_{ij})}$ in the conformally flat space. Our examples include all biharmonic hypersurfaces found in Ou (Pac J Math 248(1):217–232, 2010) and Ou and Tang (Mich Math J 61:531–542, 2012) as special cases.