Solutions to the affine quasi-Einstein equation for homogeneous surfaces (Q2194715)

The authors study the space of solutions to the affine quasi-Einstein equation in the context of homogeneous surfaces. Let \(f\in C^{\infty}(M)\) and let \[\mathcal{H} f = \nabla^2f := (\partial_{x^i} \partial_{x^j}f-\Gamma_{ij}^k\partial_{x^k}f)dx^i\otimes dx^j\] be the Hessian. The affine quasi-Einstein equation is \[\mathcal{H} f = \mu f\rho_s,\] where \(\mu\in R\) is the eigenvalue parameter. Denote the associated eigenspace by \[E(\mu,\nabla) := {f\in C^{\infty}(M):\mathcal{H}f = \mu f\rho_s}.\] As these spaces can be used to create gradient Yamabe solitons, conformally Einstein metrics, and warped product Einstein manifolds, by using the dimension of the space of affine Killing vector fields, etc. the authors provide very explicit descriptions of these solution spaces.