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

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

Authors Hao Fang

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

zbMATH Keywords

locally conformally flat manifoldGauss-Bonnet-Chern inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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 $P$ and their related conformally invariant curvatures $Q$ 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 $Q$% -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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