Branson's Q-curvature in Riemannian and spin geometry

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.119MaRDI QIDQ2473529zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Oussama Hijazi, Simon Raulot

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0345, https://eudml.org/doc/54311, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/119/

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zbMATH Keywords

\(\sigma_k\) curvaturesBranson's Q-curvatureconformal geometryDirac operatorKilling spinorsPaneitz-Branson operatorYamabe invariantYamabe operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: On a closed 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold, we give a lower bound for the square of the first eigenvalue of the Yamabe operator in terms of the total Branson's Q-curvature. As a consequence, if the manifold is spin, we relate the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator to the total Branson's Q-curvature. On a closed n-dimensional manifold, $nge5$, we compare the three basic conformally covariant operators : the Branson-Paneitz, the Yamabe and the Dirac operator (if the manifold is spin) through their first eigenvalues. Equality cases are also characterized.

Review text

The Branson \(Q\)-curvature is a scalar function which exhibits interesting conformal behavior that generalizes \(2\)-dimensional phenomena for the scalar curvature to higher dimensional geometry. There are 3 natural operators in conformal geometry: Dirac, Yamabe, and Branson-Paneitz. The author examines relations between the spectra of these three operators similar to that played by the scalar curvature for the Dirac operator through the Lichnerowicz formula. The author establishes a new lower bound for the square of the first eigenvalue of the Yamabe eigenvalue in terms of the total Branson \(Q\)-curvature and, for \(n\geq5\), shows it is at least equal to that of the Paneitz-Branson operator. If the manifold is spin, the Hijazi inequality is used to relate the first eigenvalue of the Dirac operator to the total Branson \(Q\)-curvature if \(n=4\) and to the first eigenvalue of the Paneitz-Branson operator if \(n\geq5\).

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