Long-time existence of the edge Yamabe flow

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/78147814MaRDI QIDQ2317155zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 8 August 2019

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03935, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1552035633

incomplete edge metrics long-time existence Yamabe flow

Heat kernel (35K08) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: This article presents an analysis of the normalized Yamabe flow starting at and preserving a class of compact Riemannian manifolds with incomplete edge singularities and negative Yamabe invariant. Our main results include uniqueness, long-time existence and convergence of the edge Yamabe flow starting at a metric with everywhere negative scalar curvature. Our methods include novel maximum principle results on the singular edge space without using barrier functions. Moreover, our uniform bounds on solutions are established by a new ansatz without in any way using or redeveloping Krylov-Safonov estimates in the singular setting. As an application we obtain a solution to the Yamabe problem for incomplete edge metrics with negative Yamabe invariant using flow techniques. Our methods lay groundwork for studying other flows like the mean curvature flow as well as the porous medium equation in the singular setting.

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The normalized Yamabe flow is a geometric evolution equation that evolves a Riemannian metric toward a metric of constant scalar curvature. The Yamabe flow equation preserves the conformal class of the initial metric and thus may be written as a single nonlinear PDE for the conformal factor. In this paper under review, the authors continue the investigation of the Yamabe flow that the authors commenced in [\textit{E. Bahuaud} and \textit{B. Vertman}, Math. Nachr. 287, No. 2--3, 127--159 (2014; Zbl 1305.53065)], where they established short-time existence for the Yamabe flow within a specified class of compact Riemannian spaces with incomplete edge metrics. The authors study the normalized Yamabe flow preserving a class of compact Riemannian manifolds with incomplete edge singularities and negative Yamabe invariant in the paper under review. Preservation of the edge structure along the flow can be thought of as a boundary condition. The main results of this paper include long-time existence, uniqueness and convergence for the edge Yamabe flow in the case of the initial edge metric with negative scalar curvature. Note that in a singular setting, the classical analysis in the compact setting cannot be applied directly and even short-time existence of the Yamabe flow was non-trivial. Hence, the classical maximum principle needs to be suitably modified to incorporate the singular edge boundary and one has to develop a suitable replacement for the Krylov-Safolov estimate. It is remarkable that the authors proved a new version of a maximum principle on singular spaces which specifies regularity of a function instead of reducing the statement to the classical setting by a smart choice of barrier functions. As a direct application of the above mentioned novel maximum principle, the authors proved that the normalized Yamabe flow of dimension at least \(3\) with incomplete edge has a unique solution for a short time, and if the initial scalar curvature is negative, then the flow exists for all time and converges to a metric of negative constant scalar curvature.

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