Studies of some curvature operators in a neighborhood of an asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein manifold (Q696840)

The author studies the question of existence of metrics with prescribed Ricci or Einstein curvature tensor on an asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein manifold with non-negative Yamabe constant on the boundary at infinity. If \(M^{c}\) is a compact \(n\)-dimensional manifold with non-empty boundary, then the non-compact Riemannian manifold \((M,g_0)\) where \(M=M^{c}\setminus \partial M^{c}\), is called conformally compact if there is a smooth function \(\rho\) on \(M\) such that \(\rho>0\) on \(M\), \(\rho=0\) on \(\partial M^{c}\), \(d\rho\) does not vanish on \(\partial M^{c}\) and \(g^{c}=\rho^{2}g_{0}\) is a smooth Riemannian metric on \(M^{c}\). An asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein manifold, abbreviated by AHEM, is a conformally compact Einstein manifold \(M\) satisfying Ric\(_{M}(g) =\) \(-(n-1) \). It is known that the sectional curvature of an AHEM converges to \(-1\) as the point approaches the conformal boundary. The author measures the closeness between two symmetric two times covariant tensors using the special weighted Hölder distance; the standard Hölder norm being taken with a weight that depends upon the distance from the point to the conformal boundary of \(M\). The author's main result, theorem 4.7, states that if \(n\geq 10\) and if a symmetric two times covariant tensor is sufficiently close to Ric\(_{M}(g_{0})\) in the weighted Hölder distance, then it is the Ricci curvature tensor of a unique metric \(g\) on \(M\) that is close to \(g_{0}\). The author also obtains that the image of the Riemann-Christoffel curvature operator is a submanifold in a neighborhood of \(g_{0}\). A counterpart of theorem 4.7, theorem 5.5, is proved for Einstein curvature, when \(n\geq 3\).