Deformations of Q-curvature. II.

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-02181-5MaRDI QIDQ2113328zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yueh-Ju Lin, Wei Yuan

Publication date 14 March 2022

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05871

zbMATH Keywords

stability\(Q\)-curvatureEinstein metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: This is the second article of a sequence of research on deformations of Q-curvature. In the previous one, we studied local stability and rigidity phenomena of Q-curvature. In this article, we mainly investigate the volume comparison with respect to Q-curvature. In particular, we show that volume comparison theorem holds for metrics close to strictly stable positive Einstein metrics. This result shows that Q-curvature can still control the volume of manifolds under certain conditions, which provides a fundamental geometric characterization of Q-curvature. Applying the same technique, we derive the local rigidity of strictly stable Ricci-flat manifolds with respect to Q-curvature, which shows the non-existence of metrics with positive Q-curvature near the reference metric.

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