Yamabe spectra

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-97-08905-5MaRDI QIDQ1365162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander G. Reznikov

Publication date 21 January 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9411002

zbMATH Keywords

isometric immersionnegative Yamabe invariantsThurston normYamabe spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Critical metrics (58E11)

Abstract: We study the set of volumes of constant scalar curvature one metrics on an atoroidal three-manifold.The infinum of this set is believed to be attained at a hyperbolic metric. We prove that the supremum of this set is always infinity. The technique is: minimal surfaces, Thurston norm in homology and new conformal invariants.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a manifold whose Yamabe invariants are all negative. Then for any metric conformal class \(C\) of \(M\), one may take the appropriately scaled metric \(\widetilde g\) in \(C\) of constant scalar curvature \(-1\) and denote \(\text{Vol} (C)= \text{Vol} (\widetilde g)\). The set \(\text{Vol} (C)\) is said to be the Yamabe spectrum of \(M\). The author proves that if \(M^3\) is a compact, oriented, homologically atoroidal three-manifold with \(\pi_2 (M)=0\) and \(H_1(M, \mathbb{R})=0\), then \(\sup_C \text{Vol} (C)< \infty\). Using this estimate, the author demonstrates new global obstructions for the Nash isometrical immersions \(M^3 \to N\) of arbitrary codimension, which incude a nontrivial map in the first homology.

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