Decompositions of the space of Riemannian metrics on a compact manifold with boundary (Q2048913)

Let \(M\) is a compact connected oriented smooth \(n\)-manifold, \(n \geq 3\), with smooth non-empty boundary \(\partial M\). The main goal of the paper is to prove analogues of the classical slice theorem of \textit{D. G. Ebin} [Proc. Sympos. Pure Math. 15, 11--40 (1970; Zbl 0205.53702)] and decomposition theorem of \textit{N. Koiso} [Osaka J. Math. 16, 423--429 (1979; Zbl 0416.58007)] for the space of all Riemannian metrics on \(M\) endowed with a fixed conformal class on \(\partial M\). We recall that the theorems of Ebin and Koiso apply to closed manifolds. The precise statement of the boundary condition used in the paper is somewhat technical but important for the proofs and results. As an application, the author obtains rigidity results for relative constant scalar curvature metrics and gives a characterization of relative Einstein metrics.