The Cheeger constant of an asymptotically locally hyperbolic manifold and the Yamabe type of its conformal infinity (Q2304962)

The authors study asymptotically locally hyperbolic (ALH) manifolds in the more general setting of conformally compact manifolds. Due to the important role that they play in the so-called anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, this class of Riemannian manifolds has attracted a great deal of interest in both physical and mathematical realms. The main result is the following: Let \((M,g)\) be an \((n+1)\)-dimensional conformally compact Riemannian manifold of order \(C^{m,\alpha}\) with \(m\ge 3\), \(0<\alpha <1\) and whose Ricci tensor and scalar curvature satisfy \(\mathrm{Ric}g+ng\ge 0\), \(R_g+n(n+1)=o(r^2)\), where \(r\) is any defining function on \(M\). Then for the Cheeger constant of \(M\) holds \({\mathcal C}h(M,g)=n\) if and only if \({\mathcal Y}(\partial M,[\gamma])\ge 0\), where \({\mathcal Y}(\partial M,[\gamma])\) denotes the Yamabe invariant of the conformal infinity. This gives an answer to a question posed by \textit{J. M. Lee} [Commun. Anal. Geom. 3, No. 2, 253--271 (1995; Zbl 0934.58029)].