Sharp metric obstructions for quasi-Einstein metrics

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2012.10.006MaRDI QIDQ1938602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey S. Case

Publication date 21 February 2013

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3010

zbMATH Keywords

obstructionquasi-Einstein metricsmooth metric measure spacetractor bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Abstract: Using the tractor calculus to study smooth metric measure spaces, we adapt results of Gover and Nurowski to give sharp metric obstructions to the existence of quasi-Einstein metrics on suitably generic manifolds. We do this by introducing an analogue of the Weyl tractor $W$ to the setting of smooth metric measure spaces. The obstructions we obtain can be realized as tensorial invariants which are polynomial in the Riemann curvature tensor and its divergence. By taking suitable limits of their tensorial forms, we then find obstructions to the existence of static potentials, generalizing to higher dimensions a result of Bartnik and Tod, and to the existence of potentials for gradient Ricci solitons.

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