On higher-order Codazzi tensors on complete Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10455-019-09673-WMaRDI QIDQ2273606zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Josef Mikeš, Igor G. Shandra, Sergey E. Stepanov

Publication date 24 September 2019

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03956

zbMATH Keywords

Bochner techniquecomplete Riemannian manifoldhigher-order Codazzi tensorspace formsubharmonic function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global submanifolds (53C40)

Abstract: We prove several Liouville-type non-existence theorems for higher order Codazzi tensors and classical Codazzi tensors on complete and compact Riemannian manifolds, in particular. These results will be obtained by using theorems of the connections between the geometry of a complete smooth manifold and the global behavior of its subharmonic functions. In conclusion, we show applications of this method for global geometry of a complete locally conformally flat Riemannian manifold with constant scalar curvature because its Ricci tensor is a Codazzi tensor and for global geometry of a complete hypersurface in a standard sphere because its second fundamental form is also a Codazzi tensor.

Review text

Let \((M,g)\) be a Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\geq 2\) and let \(\nabla\) be its Levi-Civita connection. A Codazzi \(p\)-tensor (or higher-order Codazzi tensor) is a \(C^\infty\) section \(T\) of the vector bundle of symmetric differential \(p\)-forms, \(p\geq 2\), on \(M\) satisfying the equation \[ (\nabla_{X_0}T)(X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_p) = (\nabla_{X_1}T)(X_0,X_2,\ldots,X_p) \] for any tangent vector fields \(X_0\), \(X_1,\ldots,X_p\) on \(M\). In the article under review, the authors prove several Liouville-type non-existence theorems for higher-order Codazzi tensors and classical Codazzi tensors on complete Riemannian manifolds. These results are obtained by means of, among several tools, a generalized version of the Bochner technique and include applications of this method to the study of the global geometry of complete locally conformally flat Riemannian manifolds with positive constant scalar curvature and of complete hypersurfaces in a standard sphere. Indeed, in the first case, under suitable hypotheses on the Ricci tensor (which is a Codazzi tensor of order 2), the authors conclude that the manifolds under consideration are spherical space forms. In the second case, under appropriate assumptions on the second fundamental form of a connected, complete minimal hypersurface in the standard round sphere, the authors conclude that the minimal hypersurface is either an equator or is isometric to a generalized Clifford torus.

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