Prescribing Ricci curvature on homogeneous spaces

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2021-0069MaRDI QIDQ2121995zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jorge Lauret, Cynthia Will

Publication date 5 April 2022

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03643

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous manifoldLichnerowicz Laplacianmoment mapRicci tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30)

Abstract: The prescribed Ricci curvature problem in the context of G-invariant metrics on a homogeneous space M=G/K is studied. We focus on the metrics at which the Ricci curvature map is, locally, as injective and surjective as it can be. Our main result is that such property is generic in the compact case. Our main tool is a formula for the Lichnerowicz Laplacian we prove in terms of the moment map for the variety of algebras.

Review text

Given a symmetric \(2\)-tensor \(T\) on \(M\), looking for Riemannian metrics \(g\) on \(M\) such that \({\mathrm{Ric}}(g)=T\) is called a prescribed Ricci curvature problem. There are several results about this problem, for irreducible symmetric spaces and some further particular spaces. In the present paper, the problem is studied for homogeneous spaces \(M=G/H\). It is formulated in natural terms of the mapping \[{\mathrm{Rc}}\colon {\mathcal M}^G\rightarrow {\mathcal S}^2(M)^G\] from the open subset of all \(G\)-invariant metrics \({\mathcal M}^G\) into the vector space of all \(G\)-invariant symmetric \(2\)-tensors \({\mathcal S}^2(M)^G\). The concept of Ricci locally invertible metrics is introduced and studied. It is the subset of metrics for which the mapping \({\mathrm{Rc}}\) is as invertible as possible. In this concept, several results are obtained, open questions are raised and examples of various features of the mapping \({\mathrm{Rc}}\) are given.

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