Critical metrics with cyclic parallel Ricci tensor for volume functional on manifolds with boundary (Q2312737): Difference between revisions

In this paper, the authors study the critical metrics with cyclic parallel Ricci tensor for volume functional on compact manifolds \((M^n,g)\), \((n\ge 3)\), with boundary \(\partial M\). A Riemannian metric \(g\) is said to be with cyclic parallel Ricci tensor if its Ricci tensor satisfies \(\nabla_X \mathrm{Ric}(Y,Z)+\nabla_Y \mathrm{Ric}(Z,X)+\nabla_Z \mathrm{Ric}(X,Y)=0\). Let \(f:M^n\to \mathbb{R}\) be a smooth function such that \(f^{-1}(0) =\partial M\) satisfies the overdetermined-elliptic system \(-(\Delta f)g+Hess_gf-f \mathrm{Ric}_g =g\), where \(Hess_gf\) is the Hessian of \(f\) with respect to the metric \(g\). Such a function \(f\) is called a potential function. A Miao-Tam critical metric is the 3-tuple \((M^n, g, f)\). Such metrics were studied by \textit{P. Miao} and \textit{L.-F. Tam} [Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 36, No. 2, 141--171 (2009; Zbl 1175.49043)]. In this paper, the authors show that the critical metric \((M^n, g, f)\) with cyclic parallel Ricci tensor is isometric to a geodesic ball in a simply connected space form \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(\mathbb{H}^n\) or \(\mathbb{S}^n\) under some extra conditions.