Critical metrics of the volume functional on three-dimensional manifolds

In this paper, we prove the three-dimensional $CPE$ conjecture with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Moreover, we establish rigidity theorems for three-dimensional compact, oriented, connected V-static metrics with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Finally, we obtain classification results on three-dimensional vacuum static space and Miao–Tam critical metric with nonnegative Ricci curvature.     

Critical metrics of the total scalar curvature functional on 4‐manifolds

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical points of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of unitary volume, for simplicity CPE metrics. It was conjectured in the 1980's that every CPE metric must be Einstein. We prove that a 4‐dimensional CPE metric with harmonic tensor must be isometric to a round sphere      

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.     

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     

Critical points of the area functional of a complex closed curve on the manifold of Kähler metrics

We consider a compact complex manifold of dimension that admits Kähler metrics and we assume that is a closed complex curve. We denote by the space of classes of Kähler forms that define Kähler metrics of volume 1 on and define by . We show how the Riemann-Hodge bilinear relations imply that any critical point of is the strict global minimum and we give conditions under which there is such a critical point : A positive multiple of is the Poincaré dual of the homology class of . Applying this to the Abel-Jacobi map of a curve into its Jacobian, , we obtain that the Theta metric minimizes the area of within all Kähler metrics of volume 1 on .

     

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.     

Supercanonical algebras and Schouten brackets

Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 70–76, January, 1991.     

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.     

共形平坦黎曼流形上的Schouten张量

M是一个紧致的局部共形平坦黎曼流形,其上定义的Schouten张量是一个Codazzi张量.本文借助这个Codazzi张量引入Cheng和Yau的自伴算子,从而获得了局部共形平坦流形上的一些性质,改进了已有的结论.     

Cartan,Schouten and the search for connection

In this paper we provide an analysis, both historical and mathematical, of two joint papers on the theory of connections by Élie Cartan and Jan Arnoldus Schouten that were published in 1926. These papers were the result of a fertile collaboration between the two eminent geometers that flourished in the two-year period 1925–1926. We describe the birth and the development of their scientific relationship especially in the light of unpublished sources that, on the one hand, offer valuable insight into their common research interests and, on the other hand, provide a vivid picture of Cartan's and Schouten's different technical choices. While the first part of this work is preeminently of a historical character, the second part offers a modern mathematical treatment of some contents of the two contributions.     

Algebraic identity for the Schouten tensor and bi-Hamiltonian systems

A (0,3)-tensor Tijk is introduced in an invariant form. Algebraic identities are derived that connect the Schouten (2,1)-tensor and tensor Tijk with the Nijenhuis tensor . Applications to the bi-Hamiltonian dynamical systems are presented.     

Some properties of the Schouten tensor and applications to conformal geometry

The Riemannian curvature tensor decomposes into a conformally invariant part, the Weyl tensor, and a non-conformally invariant part, the Schouten tensor. A study of the th elementary symmetric function of the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor was initiated in an earlier paper by the second author, and a natural condition to impose is that the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor are in a certain cone, . We prove that this eigenvalue condition for implies that the Ricci curvature is positive. We then consider some applications to the locally conformally flat case, in particular, to extremal metrics of -curvature functionals and conformal quermassintegral inequalities, using the results of the first and third authors.

     

Some results for stationary maps of a functional related to pullback metrics

In this paper, we consider a functional on the space of maps between Riemannian manifolds, and give some results for its stationary maps.     

On the immersion of metrics close to immersible metrics

For a C^r,-immersion z:X E, r 2, 0 < < 1, of an n-dimensional (n 1) simply-connected C^r+2,-manifold X into Euclidean space E, the metric I(z) induced by z has a neighborhood in C^r,-topology in which every metric from a given subbundle of metrics is C^r,-immersible into E. In particular, it is proved that metric ds ₀ ² of the Riemannian product of p spheres of dimensions ₁, , _p 2 has a neighborhood in C^2,-topology from which any conformally equivalent metric to ds ₀ ² , is immersible into E with dimE = ₁ + + _p + p. The proofs are based on the investigation of a varied system of Gauss—Codazzi—Ricci equations for an infinitely small deformation of surface z(X) in E with a prescribed variation of the metric.Translated from Ukrainskii Geometricheskii Sbornik, No. 35, pp. 49–67, 1992.     

Prescribed diagonal Schouten tensor in locally conformally flat manifolds

We consider the pseudo-euclidean space ${(\mathbb{R}^n, g)}$ , with n ≥  3 and ${g_{ij} = \delta_{ij} \varepsilon_i, \varepsilon_i = \pm 1}$ and tensors of the form ${T = \sum \nolimits_i \varepsilon_i f_i (x) dx_i^2}$ . In this paper, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a diagonal tensor to admit a metric ${\bar{g}}$ , conformal to g, so that ${A_{\bar g}=T}$ , where ${A_{\bar g}}$ is the Schouten Tensor of the metric ${\bar g}$ . The solution to this problem is given explicitly for special cases for the tensor T, including a case where the metric ${\bar g}$ is complete on ${\mathbb{R}^n}$ . Similar problems are considered for locally conformally flat manifolds. As an application of these results we consider the problem of finding metrics ${\bar g}$ , conformal to g, such that ${\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}$ or ${\frac{\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}{\sigma_1 ({\bar g })}}$ is equal to a given function. We prove that for some functions, f ₁ and f ₂, there exist complete metrics ${\bar{g} = g/{\varphi^2}}$ , such that ${\sigma_2 ({\bar g }) = f_1}$ or ${\frac{\sigma_2 ({\bar g })}{\sigma_1 ({\bar g })} = f_2}$ .