On the Yamabe problem on contact Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10455-019-09675-8zbMATH Open1425.53046arXiv1501.06784OpenAlexW2965159897WikidataQ115384551 ScholiaQ115384551MaRDI QIDQ2273608FDOQ2273608

Authors: Wei Wang, Feifan Wu 

Publication date: 24 September 2019

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

Abstract: Contact Riemannian manifolds, whose complex structures are not necessarily integrable, are generalization of pseudohermitian manifolds in CR geometry. The Tanaka-Webster-Tanno connection plays the role of the Tanaka-Webster connection of a pseudohermitian manifold. Conformal transformations and the Yamabe problem are also defined naturally in this setting. By constructing the special frames and the normal coordinates on a contact Riemannian manifold, we prove that if the complex structure is not integrable, its Yamabe invariant on a contact Riemannian manifold is always less than the Yamabe invariant of the Heisenberg group. So the Yamabe problem on a contact Riemannian manifold is always solvable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06784

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionalmost complex structureYamabe problemYamabe functionalcontact Riemannian manifoldsTanno tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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