A global classification result for Randers metrics of scalar curvature on closed manifolds

One important problem in Finsler geometry is that of classifying Finsler metrics of scalar curvature. By investigating the second-order differential equation for a class of Randers metrics with isotropic S$S$-curvature, we give a global classification of these metrics of scalar curvature, generalizing a theorem previously only known in the case of locally projectively flat Randers metrics.     

Sharp estimates and the Dirac operator

This paper establishes and extends a conjecture posed by M. Gromov which states that every riemannian metric on that strictly dominates the standard metric must have somewhere scalar curvature strictly less than that of . More generally, if is any compact spin manifold of dimension which admits a distance decreasing map of non-zero degree, then either there is a point with normalized scalar curvature , or is isometric to . The distance decreasing hypothesis can be replaced by the weaker assumption is contracting on -forms. In both cases, the results are sharp. An explicit counterexample is given to show that the result is no longer valid if one replaces 2-forms by -forms with . Received: 16 May 1996     

Harmonic maps from closed Riemannian manifolds with positive scalar curvature

It is well known there is no non-constant harmonic map from a closed Riemannian manifold of positive Ricci curvature to a complete Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. By reducing the assumption on the Ricci curvature to one on the scalar curvature, such vanishing theorem cannot hold in general. This raises the question: “What information can we obtain from the existence of non-constant harmonic map?” This paper gives answer to this problem; the results obtained are optimal.     

Critical points of the total scalar curvature functional on the space of metrics of constant scalar curvature

It is well known that critical points of the total scalar curvature functional ? on the space of all smooth Riemannian structures of volume 1 on a compact manifold M are exactly the Einstein metrics. When the domain of ? is restricted to the space of constant scalar curvature metrics, there has been a conjecture that a critical point is also Einstein or isometric to a standard sphere. In this paper we prove that n-dimensional critical points have vanishing n− 1 homology under a lower Ricci curvature bound for dimension less than 8. Received: 12 July 1999     

Universal curvature identities

We study scalar and symmetric 2-form valued universal curvature identities. We use this to establish the Gauss–Bonnet theorem using heat equation methods, to give a new proof of a result of Kuz?mina and Labbi concerning the Euler–Lagrange equations of the Gauss–Bonnet integral, and to give a new derivation of the Euh–Park–Sekigawa identity.     

An upper bound for a Hilbert polynomial on quaternionic Kähler manifolds

In this article we prove an upper bound for a Hilbert polynomial on quaternionic Kähler manifolds of positive scalar curvature. As corollaries we obtain bounds on the quaternionic volume and the degree of the associated twistor space. Moreover, the article contains some details on differential equations of finite type. Part of this article is used in the proof of the main theorem.     

A gap theorem for hypersurfaces of the sphere with constant scalar curvature one

We consider closed hypersurfaces of the sphere with scalar curvature one, prove a gap theorem for a modified second fundamental form and determine the hypersurfaces that are at the end points of the gap. As an application we characterize the closed, two-sided index one hypersurfaces with scalar curvature one in the real projective space. Received: October 12, 2001     

Higher eta-invariants

We define the higher eta-invariant of a Dirac-type operator on a nonsimply-connected closed manifold. We discuss its variational properties and how it would fit into a higher index theorem for compact manifolds with boundary. We give applications to questions of positive scalar curvature for manifolds with boundary, and to a Novikov conjecture for manifolds with boundary.Partially supported by the Humboldt Foundation and NSF grant DMS-9101920.     

A Möbius characterization of submanifolds in real space forms with parallel mean curvature and constant scalar curvature

In this paper, we give a Möbius characterization of submanifolds in real space forms with parallel mean curvature vector fields and constant scalar curvatures, generalizing a theorem of H. Li and C.P. Wang in [LW1].Supported by NSF of Henan, P. R. China     

局部对称流形上的数量曲率

本文讨论了无共轭点测地线上的Ｊａｃｏｂｉ声，证明了具非负数量曲率的局部对称的无共轭点流形及具非负数量曲率的具极点的局部对称的流形之数量曲率只能是零。部分解决了Ｅ．Ｈｏｐｆ猜想。     

Critical metrics for quadratic functionals in the curvature on 4-dimensional manifolds

We study critical metrics for the squared L²-norm functionals of the curvature tensor, the Ricci tensor and the scalar curvature by making use of a curvature identity on 4-dimensional Riemannian manifolds.     

Curvatures of homogeneous Randers spaces

We study curvatures of homogeneous Randers spaces. After deducing the coordinate-free formulas of the flag curvature and Ricci scalar of homogeneous Randers spaces, we give several applications. We first present a direct proof of the fact that a homogeneous Randers space is Ricci quadratic if and only if it is a Berwald space. We then prove that any left invariant Randers metric on a non-commutative nilpotent Lie group must have three flags whose flag curvature is positive, negative and zero, respectively. This generalizes a result of J.A. Wolf on Riemannian metrics. We prove a conjecture of J. Milnor on the characterization of central elements of a real Lie algebra, in a more generalized sense. Finally, we study homogeneous Finsler spaces of positive flag curvature and particularly prove that the only compact connected simply connected Lie group admitting a left invariant Finsler metric with positive flag curvature is SU(2)$\text{SU}\left(2\right)$.     

Lower bound for Ln/2 curvature norm and its application

We control the number of critical points of a height function arising from the Nash isometric embedding of a compact Riemanniann-manifoldM. The L^n/2 curvature norm ∥R∥ and a similar scalar ∥R∥ are introduced and their integralR(M) andR(M) overM. We prove thatR(M) is bounded below by a constant depending only onn and the Betti numbers ofM. Thus a new sphere theorem is proved by eliminating allith Betti numbers fori = 1, .…n −1. The emphasis is that our sphere theorem imposes no restriction on the range of curvature. Research partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research, grant no. 07454018.     

Potential function estimates for quasi-Einstein metrics

In this paper, we derive the growth pinching estimates for potential functions of τ-quasi-Einstein metrics on complete noncompact connected manifolds, based on the estimates for the scalar curvature and the using of the weighted measure comparison theorem. Our results show that the estimates for potential functions rely on the sign of constants λ and μ.     

Rigidity for critical metrics of the volume functional

Geodesic balls in a simply connected space forms , or are distinguished manifolds for comparison in bounded Riemannian geometry. In this paper we show that they have the maximum possible boundary volume among Miao–Tam critical metrics with connected boundary provided that the boundary of the manifold has a lower bound for the Ricci curvature. In the same spirit we also extend a rigidity theorem due to Boucher et al. 7 and Shen 18 to n‐dimensional static metrics with positive constant scalar curvature, which gives us a partial answer to the Cosmic no‐hair conjecture.     

Critical metrics of the scalar curvature functional satisfying a vanishing condition on the Weyl tensor

It was conjectured in the 80s that every critical metric of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of unitary volume must be Einstein. We prove that such a conjecture is true under a second-order vanishing condition on the Weyl tensor.     

Positive scalar curvature,higher rho invariants and localization algebras

In this paper, we use localization algebras to study higher rho invariants of closed spin manifolds with positive scalar curvature metrics. The higher rho invariant is a secondary invariant and is closely related to positive scalar curvature problems. The main result of the paper connects the higher index of the Dirac operator on a spin manifold with boundary to the higher rho invariant of the Dirac operator on the boundary, where the boundary is endowed with a positive scalar curvature metric. Our result extends a theorem of Piazza and Schick [27, Theorem 1.17].     

Maskit combinations of Poincaré-Einstein metrics

We establish a boundary connected sum theorem for asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein metrics, and also show that if the two metrics have scalar positive conformal infinities, then the same is true for this boundary join. This construction is also extended to spaces with a finite number of interior conic singularities, and as a result we show that any 3-manifold which is a finite connected sum of quotients of S³ and S²×S¹ bounds such a space (with conic singularities); putatively, any 3-manifold admitting a metric of positive scalar curvature is of this form.     

Rigidity of linear Weingarten hypersurfaces in locally symmetric manifolds

Our purpose in this paper is to study the rigidity of complete linear Weingarten hypersurfaces immersed in a locally symmetric manifold obeying some standard curvature conditions (in particular, in a Riemannian space with constant sectional curvature). Under appropriated constrains on the scalar curvature function, we prove that such a hypersurface must be either totally umbilical or isometric to an isoparametric hypersurface with two distinct principal curvatures, one of them being simple. Furthermore, we also deal with the parabolicity of these hypersurfaces with respect to a suitable Cheng–Yau modified operator.