Scalar curvature and the multiconformal class of a direct product Riemannian manifold

Abstract: For a closed, connected direct product Riemannian manifold

(M, g) = (M_{1} i m e s c d o t s i m e s M_{l}, g_{1} o p l u s c d o t s o p l u s g_{l})

, we define its multiconformal class

[! [g]!]

as the totality

f_{1}^{2} g_{1} o p l u s c d o t s o p l u s f_{l}^{2} g_{l}

of all Riemannian metrics obtained from multiplying the metric

g_{i}

of each factor

M_{i}

by a function

f_{i}^{2} > 0

on the total space

M

. A multiconformal class

[! [g]!]

contains not only all warped product type deformations of

g

but also the whole conformal class

[i l d e g]

of every

i l d e g i n [! [g]!]

. In this article, we prove that

[! [g]!]

carries a metric of positive scalar curvature if and only if the conformal class of some factor

(M_{i}, g_{i})

does, under the technical assumption

d i m M_{i} g e 2

. We also show that, even in the case where every factor

(M_{i}, g_{i})

has positive scalar curvature,

[! [g]!]

carries a metric of scalar curvature constantly equal to

- 1

and with arbitrarily large volume, provided

l g e 2

and

d i m M g e 3

. In this case, such negative scalar curvature metrics within

[! [g]!]

for

l = 2

cannot be of any warped product type.

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