Global Yamabe flow on asymptotically flat manifolds (Q820524)

The purpose of the paper under review is to study the existence of global Yamabe flows on asymptotically flat manifolds. Given an \(n\)-dimensional complete manifold \((M^n,g_0)\), \(n\geq 3\), the Yamabe flow on \((M^n,g_0)\) is a family of Riemannian metrics \(\{g(\cdot,t)\}\) on \(M\) defined by the evolution equation \[\begin{cases} \frac{\partial g}{\partial t} &=-Rg\quad \mbox{in}\quad M^n \times [0,T),\\ g(\cdot,0) &= g_0 \quad \mbox{in}\quad M^n, \end{cases}\] where \(R\) is the scalar curvature of the metric \(g:=g(\cdot,t)=u^{\frac{4}{n-2}}g_0\) and \(u: M^n \to \mathbb{R}^+\) is a positive smooth function on \(M^n\). A Riemannian manifold \(M^n, n\geq 3\) with \(C^{\infty}\) metric \(g\) is called asymptotically flat of order \(\tau > 0\) if there exists a decomposition \(M^n =M_0 \cup M_{\infty}\) with \(M_0\) compact and a diffeomorphism \(M_{\infty} \cong \mathbb{R}^n -B(o,R_0)\) for some constant \(R_0 > 0\) such that \[g_{ij} -\delta_{ij} \in C^{2+\alpha}_{-\tau}(M)\] in the coordinates \(\{x^i\}\) induced on \(M_{\infty}\) and the coordinates \(\{x^i\}\) are called asymptotic coordinates. First, the author studies the local existence of the Yamabe flow on a complete Riemannian manifold with bounded scalar curvature. Secondly, the author proves the existence of global Yamabe flows on asymptotically flat manifolds.