A variational problem for affine connections

DOI10.1007/S00013-005-1579-4MaRDI QIDQ2492902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Osamu Kobayashi

Publication date 15 June 2006

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/11094/26340

zbMATH Keywords

affine connectionscompact connected manifoldconnections preserving a volume elementcritical point of a functionalEinstein metricnegative semidefinite Ricci curvaturenormalized Einstein-Hilbert functionalRiemannian connectiontotal scalar curvaturevariational problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Manifolds and measure-geometric topics (49Q99) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Calculus on manifolds; nonlinear operators (58C99) Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) (58D99)

Review text

Let \(M\) be a compact connected manifold and let \(A(M)\) be the space of all torsion free connections of \(M\), preserving a volume element of \(M\). Using the determinant of the Ricci tensor, the author considers an integral functional \(E(D)\) \([D\) being an element of \(A(M)],\) similar to the normalized Einstein-Hilbert functional of the total scalar curvature [\textit{A. L. Besse}, Einstein manifolds. Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge, Bd. 10. Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag. (Berlin-Heidelberg-New York) (1987; Zbl 0613.53001)]. If \(D\) is a critical point of \(E\) and its Ricci curvature is negative semidefinite (and negative definite somewhere), then \(D\) is the Riemannian connection of an Einstein metric.

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