Some inequalities and applications of Simons' type formulas in Riemannian, affine, and statistical geometry (Q2075353)

According to the author, from a geometric viewpoint, a statistical structure is nothing but a Codazzi pair. By a statistical structure, one means a pair \((g,\nabla)\), where \(g\) is a Riemannian metric tensor field and \(\nabla\) is a torsion-free affine connection such that the cubic form \(\nabla g\) is symmetric. A statistical structure is called trace-free if the Chebyshev form is trivial. The symmetry of the Ricci tensor is the first obstruction for a statistical structure to be realizable as the induced structure on a hypersurface in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\). The author assumes that a hypersurface is locally strongly convex. She proves formulas that yield inequalities for the Ricci tensors and scalar curvatures of statistical structures. The main part of this paper deals with the following Simons formula \(\frac12 \Delta(||s||^2)=g(\Delta s,s)+||\hat{\nabla} s||^2\), where \(s\) is a tensor field, \(\Delta s\) is a specially defined Laplacian on \(s\), and \(\hat{\nabla}\) denotes the Levi-Civita connection. By assuming that the statistical structure is conjugate symmetric and by using various properties of statistical structures, the first term in the right part of the Simons formula can be computed in several ways. Computing this term in a particular way, one gets inequalities valid for conjugate symmetric trace-free statistical structures. In applications of Simons' formula, the term \(||\hat{\nabla} s||^2\) is usually just non-negative. Here, the author proposes new estimations. And the author applies this to get new inequalities, some of which generalize previous results for minimal Lagrangian submanifolds. Applications of the results give rise to Einstein metrics.