On a conformal Gauss-Bonnet-Chern inequality for LCF manifolds and related topics

DOI10.1007/S00526-004-0311-8MaRDI QIDQ2486971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 17 August 2005

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403221

Gauss-Bonnet-Chern inequality locally conformally flat manifold

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove the following two results: First, we study a class of conformally invariant operators

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and their related conformally invariant curvatures

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on even-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. When the manifold is locally conformally flat(LCF) and compact without boundary,

Q

-curvature is naturally related to the integrand in the classical Gauss-Bonnet-Chern formula, i.e., the Pfaffian curvature. For a class of even-dimensional complete LCF manifolds with integrable

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% -curvature, we establish a Gauss-Bonnet-Chern inequality. Second, a finiteness theorem for certain classes of complete LCF four-fold with integrable Pfaffian curvature is also proven. This is an extension of the classical results of Cohn-Vossen and Huber in dimension two. It also can be viewed as a fully non-linear analogue of results of Chang-Qing-Yang in dimension four.

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If \((M, g)\) is a Riemannian manifold of even dimension \(n=2m\) and \([g]\) is the conformal class determined by \(g\), then there exist local curvatures \(Q_{2k}\) (with \(2k \leq\dim M\)) which satisfy certain conformal transformation laws when the Riemannian metric varies in the class \([g]\). \(Q_{n}\) is the most important local curvature. Suppose \(M\) is a locally conformally flat (LCF) manifold. Then \(Q_{n}\) is a multiple of the Pfaffian of the metric modulo a divergence term. Moreover, when \(M\) is compact without boundary, the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern theorem gives \(\int_{M} Q_{g}dv_{g}=\text{Euler} (M) \cdot ((n-2)!!)^2 \cdot | S^{n-1}| \), where Euler\((M)\) denotes the Euler Charateristic of \(M\) and \(| S^{n-1}| \) is the volume of the standard \((n-1)\)-sphere of radius 1. This formula is extended to certain complete LCF manifolds. The main result is: Let \(M,g\) be a complete LCF manifold with finitely many conformally flat simple ends satsfying \(\int_{M}| Q_{g}| dv < \infty\). If near the ends, the scalar curvature \(R_{g}\) is non-negative, then \(\int_{M} Q_{g}dv_{g}\leq \text{Euler} (M) \cdot ((n-2)!!)^2 \cdot | S^{n-1}| \). Furthermore, the author proves the following important result: If \(\Omega\) is a simply connected 4-manifold with a complete LCF metric, \(C\) and \(C'\) are constants such that \(C \geq R_{g} \geq C'>0, \text{Ric}_{g}\geq -Cg\) and \(\int_{\Omega}| \text{Pfaff}_{g}| dv_{g}<\infty\), then \(\Omega = S^{4}\setminus \{p_{1},\dots,p_{k}\}\) for some \(p_{i}\in S^{4} (i=1,2,\dots,k)\). This result is a fully non-linear analogue of the Chang-Qing-Yang theorem for dimension four.

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