Rigidity of noncompact complete manifolds with harmonic curvature (Q533679)

A Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\) is a manifold with harmonic curvature if the divergence of its curvature tensor vanishes. In this note, the author gives certain properties of noncompact complete manifolds with harmonic curvature. He proves that \((M,g)\) is Einstein if \(n\geq 5\) and the \(L_{n/2}\) norms of the Weyl curvature and traceless Ricci curvature are small enough. Theorem: ``Let \((M,g)\) be a noncompact complete Riemannian \(n\)-manifold with harmonic curvature and \(Q(M,g)> 0\). Assume that \(n\geq 4\) and one of the following conditions holds: \((\text{A}')\) the scalar curvature is nonnegative; \((\text{B}')\) the scalar curvature is positive and \(n\geq 6\). Then there exists a positive real number \(c_0\) depending only on the dimension \(n\) such that, if \[ \int_M(|W|^{n/2}+ |E|^{n/2}) dV_g\leq c_0Q(M,g), \] then \((M,g)\) is Einstein.'' \(Q(M,g)\) denotes the Sobolev constant of \((M,g)\). The method uses an elliptic estimate for the Laplacian of curvature tensors.