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A Yamabe-type problem on smooth metric measure spaces (English)
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1 February 2016
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The following is taken from the introduction of the article: The article under review ``describes and partially solves a natural Yamabe-type problem on smooth metric measure spaces which interpolates between the Yamabe problem and the problem of finding minimizers for Perelman's \(\nu\)-entropy.'' ``The Yamabe constant and Perelman's \(\nu\)-entropy are related to sharp Sobolev-type inequalities on Euclidean space, with the Yamabe constant recovering the best constant for the Sobolev inequality and the \(\nu\)-entropy recovering the best constant for the logarithmic Sobolev inequality.'' The author of the article introduced in [Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 48, No. 3--4, 507--526 (2013; Zbl 1275.49081)] a ``one-parameter family of geometric invariants which interpolate between the Yamabe constant and the \(\nu\)-entropy''. Those invariants are called weighted Yamabe constants. ``The purpose of the article is to study to what extend these invariants interpolate between the Yamabe constant and the \(\nu\)-entropy, focusing on issues related to the problem of finding minimizers of the weighted Yamabe quotients.'' The following theorems are shown: ``Let \((M^n,g,e^{-\phi} \mathrm{dvol},m)\) be a compact smooth metric measure space. Then \[ \Lambda[g,e^{-\phi}\mathrm{dvol},m] \leq \Lambda[\mathbb{R}^n,\mathrm{d}x^2,\mathrm{dvol},m] = \Lambda_{m,n}. \] Moreover, if the above inequality is strict, then there exists a positive function \(w \in C^\infty(M)\) such that \[ \mathcal{Q}(w) = \Lambda[g,e^{-\phi}\mathrm{dvol},m]." \] Here, \(\mathcal{Q}\) is the weighted Yamabe quotient, \(\Lambda[g,e^{-\phi}\mathrm{dvol},m]\) denotes the weighted Yamabe constant and \(\Lambda_{m,n}\) is a constant depending on \(m\) and \(n\). Let \((M^n,g,e^{-\phi}\mathrm{dvol},m)\) be a compact smooth metric measure space such that \(m \in \mathbb{N} \cup \{0,\infty\}\). If \[ \Lambda[g,e^{-\phi}\mathrm{dvol},m] = \Lambda[\mathbb{R}^n,\mathrm{d}x^2,\mathrm{dvol},m], \] then \(m \in \{0,1\}\) and \((M^n,g,e^{-\phi}\mathrm{dvol},m)\) is conformally equivalent to \((S^n,g_0,\mathrm{dvol},m)\) for a metric \(g_0\) of constant sectional curvature. In particular, there exists a positive function \(w \in C^\infty(M)\) such that \[ \mathcal{Q}(w) = \Lambda[g,e^{-\phi}\mathrm{dvol},m]. \] It is shown that ``There does not exist a minimizer for the weighted Yamabe constant of \((S^n,g_0,1^{1/2}\mathrm{dvol})\)''.
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Yamabe problem
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Yamabe-type problem
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smooth metric measure space
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Perelman entropy
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weighted Yamabe constants
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minimizers
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