Compact manifolds of constant scalar curvature

DOI10.1007/BF00181648MaRDI QIDQ1176341zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sharief Deshmukh, M. A. Al-Gwaiz

Publication date 25 June 1992

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00181648

zbMATH Keywords

conformal transformation groupconstant scalar curvatureisometry groupRicci tensorsectional curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

Review text

It is an interesting problem to characterize the collection of Riemannian manifolds which are isometric to a sphere in the class of compact non- negatively curved Riemannian manifolds of constant scalar curvature. Concerning this problem, \textit{A. Ros} has proved that a compact Riemannian manifold of constant scalar curvature which admits an isometric embedding in Euclidean space as a hypersurface is isometric to a sphere [J. Differ. Geom. 27, No. 2, 215-220 (1988; Zbl 0638.53051)]. The authors prove that if an \(n\)-dimensional compact, connected and non-negatively curved Riemannian manifold \(M\) of constant scalar curvature satisfies the conditions, \((i)\;(\nabla_ x\hbox{Ric})(Y,Z)=(\nabla_ Y\hbox{Ric})(X,Z)\), \(X,Y,Z\in{\mathcal X}(M)\), and (ii) \(I^ 0(M)\neq C^ 0(M)\), then \(M\) is isometric to an \(n\)- dimensional sphere \(S^ n\), where \(I^ 0(M)\) (resp. \(C^ 0(M)\)) denotes the identity component of the isometry group (resp. the conformal transformation group) of \(M\). The authors prove this result by making use of an integral formula established by \textit{A. Ros} [Ann. Math., II. Ser. 121, 377-382 (1985; Zbl 0589.53065)].

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