Finite-dimensional imbeddings of harmonic spaces

DOI10.1007/BF03161307MaRDI QIDQ1301562zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. Pereyra

Publication date 14 January 2001

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9603012

zbMATH Keywords

Damek-Ricci spaceharmonic manifoldLaplacianLichnerowicz conjectureminimal embeddingtwo-point homogeneous space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global submanifolds (53C40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: In a noncompact harmonic manifold $M$ we establish finite dimensionality of the eigenspaces $V_{lambda}$ generated by radial eigenfunctions of the form $coshr+c$. As a consequence, for such harmonic manifolds, we give an isometric imbedding of $M$ into $(V_{lambda},B)$, where $B$ is a nondegenerate symmetric bilinear indefinite form on $V_{lambda}$ (analogous to the imbedding of the real hyperbolic space $I!!!H^n$ into $I!!!R^{n+1}$ with the indefinite form $Q(x,x)=-x_0^2+sum{x}_i^2$). Finally we give certain conditions under which $M$ is symmetric.

Review text

Let \((M,g)\) be a Riemannian manifold, \(m\in M\) and \(\omega_m= (\text{det }g_{ij})^{1/2}\) the volume density function with respect to normal coordinates centered at \(m\). Then, \((M,g)\) is said to be harmonic if and only if \(\omega_m\) is a radial function for each \(m\). The only known examples are the \((M,g)\) which are locally isometric to a two-point homogeneous space or to a Damek-Ricci space. By using the Laplacian \(\Delta\) for a compact strongly harmonic space \((M,g)\), it is possible to show that there exists an isometric minimal immersion of \((M,g)\) into the finite-dimensional vector space \(V_\lambda\) of eigenfunctions of \(\Delta\) corresponding to the eigenvalue \(\lambda\) [see \textit{A. L. Besse}, ``Manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed, Ergebnisse der Math. 93, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1978; Zbl 0387.53010)]. This has been extended by \textit{Z. I. Szabó} in [J. Differ. Geom. 31, 1-28 (1990; Zbl 0686.53042)], where he showed that a similar minimal isometric immersion into the Hilbert space \(L^2(M)\) exists for arbitrary harmonic manifolds. For compact strongly harmonic spaces Szabó's construction gives Besse's construction. These results play an important role in the proof by Szabó of the Lichnerowicz conjecture (harmonic Riemannian manifolds are locally isometric to a two-point homogeneous space) for compact manifolds with finite fundamental group. In this paper, the authors treat the case of noncompact harmonic manifolds. Let \(V_\lambda\) denote the eigensubspaces generated by radial eigenfunctions of the form \(\text{cosh }r+ c\), \(r\) being the radius. First, they show that \(V_\lambda\) is finite-dimensional. Then, they construct an isometric embedding of \(M\) into \((V_\lambda, B)\) where \(B\) is some nondegenerate symmetric bilinear indefinite form on \(V_\lambda\) and they show that this embedding is minimal in some sphere in \((V_\lambda, -B)\). Furthermore, they show that all the already known examples of noncompact harmonic spaces belong to the considered class. Finally, they also treat some additional conditions under which the harmonic spaces considered here turn out to be locally symmetric.

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