The contact Yamabe flow on K-contact manifolds

We use the contact Yamabe flow to find solutions of the contact Yamabe problem on K-contact manifolds.     

The contact Yamabe flow on <Emphasis Type="Italic">K</Emphasis>-contact manifolds

We use the contact Yamabe flow to find solutions of the contact Yamabe problem on K-contact manifolds.      

Pseudo-conformal quaternionic CR structure on (4n + 3)-dimensional manifolds

We study an integrable, nondegenerate codimension 3-subbundle ${\mathcal{D}}We study an integrable, nondegenerate codimension 3-subbundle on a (4n + 3)-manifold M whose fiber supports the structure of 4n-dimensional quaternionic vector space. It is thought of as a generalization of quaternionic CR structure. We single out an -valued 1-form ω locally on a neighborhood U such that and construct the curvature invariant on (M, ω) whose vanishing gives a uniformization to flat quaternionic CR geometry. The invariant obtained on M has the same formula as that of pseudo-quaternionic K?hler 4n-manifolds. From this viewpoint, we exhibit a quaternionic analogue of Chern-Moser’s CR structure. The authors are grateful to ESI for financial support and hospitality during the preparation of this work. The first author acknowledge the support by Grant FWF Project P17108-N04 (Vienna) and Grant N MSM 0021622409 of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Brno).     

Equivariant Yamabe problem and Hebey-Vaugon conjecture

In their study of the Yamabe problem in the presence of isometry groups, E. Hebey and M. Vaugon announced a conjecture. This conjecture generalizes T. Aubin's conjecture, which has already been proven and is sufficient to solve the Yamabe problem. In this paper, we generalize Aubin's theorem and we prove the Hebey-Vaugon conjecture in dimensions less or equal to 37.     

四元Heisenberg群上的链和R-圆及其性质

定义了四元双曲空间上的链和R-圆,并给出了链在垂直投影下的性质.证明了经过Heisenberg群上固定两点的链的唯一性,R-球的qc-水平性,并给出了R-圆与纯虚R-圆之间的关系.     

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.     

Compactness of solutions to the Yamabe problem. III

For a sequence of blow up solutions of the Yamabe equation on non-locally conformally flat compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension 10 or 11, we establish sharp estimates on its asymptotic profile near blow up points as well as sharp decay estimates of the Weyl tensor and its covariant derivatives at blow up points. If the Positive Mass Theorem held in dimensions 10 and 11, these estimates would imply the compactness of the set of solutions of the Yamabe equation on such manifolds.     

Hyperbolic Yamabe problem

In this paper, we investigate the solutions of the hyperbolic Yamabe problem for the(1 + n)-dimensional Minkowski space-time. More precisely speaking, for the case of n = 1, we derive a general solution of the hyperbolic Yamabe problem; for the case of n = 2, 3, we study the global existence and blowup phenomena of smooth solutions of the hyperbolic Yamabe problem;while for general multi-dimensional case n ≥ 2, we discuss the global existence and non-existence for a kind of exact solutions of the hyperbolic Yamabe problem.     

Perturbation of Yamabe equation on Iwasawa N groups in presence of symmetry

Let G be a simple Lie group of real rank one and N be in the Iwasawa decomposition of G. Under the assumption of some symmetries, we obtain an existent result for the nonlinear equation △NU ＋ （1 ＋ ∈K（x, z））u2＊-1 = 0 on N, which generalizes the result of Malchiodi and Uguzzoni to the Kohn＇s subelliptic context on N in presence of symmetry.     

Maximal holonomy of infra-nilmanifolds with -dimensional quaternionic Heisenberg geometry

Let be the quaternionic Heisenberg group of real dimension and let denote the maximal order of the holonomy groups of all infra-nilmanifolds with -geometry. We prove that . As an application, by applying Kim and Parker's result, we obtain that the minimum volume of a -dimensional quaternionic hyperbolic manifold with cusps is at least

     

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.     

The second Yamabe invariant

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension n?3. We define the second Yamabe invariant as the infimum of the second eigenvalue of the Yamabe operator over the metrics conformal to g and of volume 1. We study when it is attained. As an application, we find nodal solutions of the Yamabe equation.     

Yamabe flow on manifolds with edges

Let be a compact oriented Riemannian manifold with an incomplete edge singularity. This article shows that it is possible to evolve g by the Yamabe flow within a class of singular edge metrics. As the main analytic step we establish parabolic Schauder‐type estimates for the heat operator on certain Hölder spaces adapted to the singular edge geometry. We apply these estimates to obtain local existence for a variety of quasilinear equations, including the Yamabe flow. This provides a setup for a subsequent discussion of the Yamabe problem using flow techniques in the singular setting.     

The Yamabe problem for almost Hermitian manifolds

The conformal class of a Hermitian metric g on a compact almost complex manifold (M^2m, 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 s^J. We ask if the conformal class of g carries a metric with constant s^J, 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)s^J−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.     

Perturbation of the CR fractional Yamabe problem

In this note, we first prove the non‐degeneracy property of extremals for the optimal Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev inequality on the Heisenberg group, as an application, a perturbation result for the CR fractional Yamabe problem is obtained, this generalizes a classical result of Malchiodi and Uguzzoni 30 .