Aspects of Dirac Operators in Analysis

We give a review of the analysis behind several examples of Dirac-type operators over manifolds arising in Clifford analysis. These include the Atiyah-Singer-Dirac operator acting on sections of a spin bundle over a spin manifold. It also includes several Dirac operators arising over conformally flat spin manifolds including hyperbolic space. Links to classical harmonic analysis are pointed out.

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Received: June 2007     

U(1)-decomposable self-dual manifolds

We characterize conformally flat spaces as the only compact self-dual manifolds which are U(1)-equivariantly and conformally decomposable into two complete self-dual Einstein manifolds with common conformal infinity. A geometric characterization of such conformally flat spaces is also given.     

On 2-Quasi-Umbilical Hypersurfaces in Conformally Flat Spaces

The main result of this paper states that any 2-quasi-umbilical hypersurface of a semi-Riemannian conformally flat space is a manifold with pseudosymmetric Weyl tensor.     

Conformal scalar curvature equations on complete manifolds

This note contains considerations on the existence and non-existence problem of conformal scalar curvature equations on some complete manifolds. We impose two general types of conditions on complete manifolds. The first type is in terms of bounds on curvature and injectivity radius. The second type is in terms of some particular structures on ends of manifolds, for examples, manifolds with cones or cusps and conformally compact manifolds. We obtain non-existence results on both types of conditions. Then we study in more details the existence problem on manifolds with cones, manifolds with cusps and conformally flat manifolds of bounded positive scalar curvature.     

Conformal vector fields on four–manifolds with negative scalar curvature

We prove a vanishing theorem for conformal vector fields on four–manifolds of negative scalar curvature. Our assumptions are conformally invariant, and in the case of locally conformally flat manifolds reduce to a sign condition on the Euler characteristic. Received April 14, 1998; in final form May 15, 1998     

On conformally flat Lorentz parabolic manifolds

We introduce conformally flat Fefferman-Lorentz manifold of parabolic type as a special class of Lorentz parabolic manifolds. It is a smooth (2n+2)-manifold locally modeled on (Û(n+1, 1), S ^2n+1,1). As the terminology suggests, when a Fefferman-Lorentz manifold M is conformally flat, M is a Fefferman-Lorentz manifold of parabolic type. We shall discuss which compact manifolds occur as a conformally flat Fefferman-Lorentz manifold of parabolic type.     

A deformation of flat conformal structures

We consider deformations of flat conformal structures from a viewpoint of connected sum decomposition of conformally flat manifolds.

     

Weak and smooth solutions for a fractional Yamabe flow: The case of general compact and locally conformally flat manifolds

As a counterpart of the classical Yamabe problem, a fractional Yamabe flow has been introduced by Jin and Xiong (2014) on the sphere. Here we pursue its study in the context of general compact smooth manifolds with positive fractional curvature. First, we prove that the flow is locally well posed in the weak sense on any compact manifold. If the manifold is locally conformally flat with positive Yamabe invariant, we also prove that the flow is smooth and converges to a constant fractional curvature metric. We provide different proofs using extension properties introduced by Chang and González (2011) for the conformally covariant fractional order operators.     

Quasi—conformally Flat Manifolds with Constant Scalar Curvature

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Conformal holonomy of C-spaces, Ricci-flat, and Lorentzian manifolds

The main result of this paper is that a Lorentzian manifold is locally conformally equivalent to a manifold with recurrent lightlike vector field and totally isotropic Ricci tensor if and only if its conformal tractor holonomy admits a 2-dimensional totally isotropic invariant subspace. Furthermore, for semi-Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary signature we prove that the conformal holonomy algebra of a C-space is a Berger algebra. For Ricci-flat spaces we show how the conformal holonomy can be obtained by the holonomy of the ambient metric and get results for Riemannian manifolds and plane waves.     

Conformal Operators on Weighted Forms; Their Decomposition and Null Space on Einstein Manifolds

There is a class of Laplacian like conformally invariant differential operators on differential forms ${L^\ell_k}$ which may be considered as the generalisation to differential forms of the conformally invariant powers of the Laplacian known as the Paneitz and GJMS operators. On conformally Einstein manifolds we give explicit formulae for these as factored polynomials in second-order differential operators. In the case that the manifold is not Ricci flat we use this to provide a direct sum decomposition of the null space of the ${L^\ell_k}$ in terms of the null spaces of mutually commuting second-order factors.     

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。     

A fully nonlinear version of the Yamabe problem on locally conformally flat manifolds with umbilic boundary

We prove existence and compactness of solutions to a fully nonlinear Yamabe problem on locally conformally flat Riemannian manifolds with umbilic boundary.     

Projective relatedness and conformal flatness

This paper discusses the connection between projective relatedness and conformal flatness for 4-dimensional manifolds admitting a metric of signature (+,+,+,+) or (+,+,+,−). It is shown that if one of the manifolds is conformally flat and not of the most general holonomy type for that signature then, in general, the connections of the manifolds involved are the same and the second manifold is also conformally flat. Counterexamples are provided which place limitations on the potential strengthening of the results.     

On conformally flat almost Hermitian manifolds

We study some of 2n-dimensional conformally flat almost Hermitian manifolds with J-(anti)-invariant Ricci tensor. Received 13 May 2000; revised 15 February 2001.     

Locally conformally flat Lorentzian quasi-Einstein manifolds

We show that locally conformally flat quasi-Einstein manifolds are globally conformally equivalent to a space form or locally isometric to a Robertson-Walker spacetime or a $pp$ -wave.     

Penrose-type inequalities with a Euclidean background

The Riemannian Penrose inequality (RPI) bounds from below the ADM mass of asymptotically flat manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature in terms of the total area of all outermost compact minimal surfaces. The general form of the RPI is currently known for manifolds of dimension up to seven. In the present work, we prove a Penrose-like inequality that is valid in all dimensions, for conformally flat manifolds. Our inequality treats the area contributions of the minimal surfaces in a more favorable way than the RPI, at the expense of using the smaller Euclidean area (rather than the intrinsic area). We give an example in which our estimate is sharper than the RPI when many minimal surfaces are present. We do not require the minimal surfaces to be outermost. We also generalize the technique to allow for metrics conformal to a scalar-flat (not necessarily Euclidean) background and prove a Penrose-type inequality without an assumption on the sign of scalar curvature. Finally, we derive a new lower bound for the ADM mass of a conformally flat, asymptotically flat manifold containing any number of zero area singularities.     

Yamabe 流下完备Riemannian 流形在无穷远的性质

本文研究完备的局部共形平坦的Riemannian 流形Mⁿ. 证明了在Yamabe 流下, 流形在无穷远处曲率趋向于零的性质是随时间保持的. 作为应用, 可以得到这个流形的渐近体积比是一个常数.     

Complete and non-compact conformally flat manifolds with constant scalar curvature

Non-compact conformally flat manifolds with constant scalar curvature and non-compact Kaehler manifolds with vanishing Bochner curvature are studied and classified.Partially supported by TGRC-KOSEF, 1990.     

Torus symmetry of compact self-dual manifolds

We classify compact anti-self-dual Hermitian surfaces and compact four-dimensional conformally flat manifolds for which the group of orientation preserving conformal transformations contains a two-dimensional torus. As a corollary, we derive a topological classification of compact self-dual manifolds for which the group of conformal transformations contains a two-dimensional torus.Partially supported by the National Science Foundation grant DMS-9306950.