On compact Riemannian manifolds admitting a certain function

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1138036856MaRDI QIDQ760028zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kazuhiro Matsushita

Publication date 1984

Published in Kodai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2996/kmj/1138036856

zbMATH Keywords

characterizations of spheresdifferentiable functionsObata's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Review text

Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold. The existence of a function satisfying certain differential equations often relates to the geometry of M. For example, if M admits a non-trivial solution f of the equations \(\nabla df+kfg=0\) for some positive constant k (where g is the metric), then Ishihara and Tashiro showed M is isometric to a Euclidean sphere. This paper studies the problem of to what extent it is possible to perturb this equality and still restrict the topology of M. They study the inequality \(| \nabla df+fg| <\epsilon\) (where \(| \) denotes the sup norm of the 2-tensor involved) and show that certain hypotheses upon \(\epsilon\) and f imply the conclusion that M is homeomorphic to a sphere.

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