The sharp lower bound of the first eigenvalue of the sub-Laplacian on a quaternionic contact manifold in dimension seven

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2013.07.011MaRDI QIDQ2637686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Ivanov, Dimiter Vassilev, Alexander Petkov

Publication date 13 February 2014

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6932

zbMATH Keywords

3-Sasakian\(P\)-functionLichnerowicz inequalityPaneitz operatorquaternionic contact structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: A version of Lichnerowicz' theorem giving a lower bound of the eigenvalues of the sub-Laplacian under a lower bound on the Sp(1)Sp(1) component of the qc-Ricci curvature on a compact seven dimensional quaternionic contact manifold is established. It is shown that in the case of a seven dimensional compact 3-Sasakian manifold the lower bound is reached if and only if the quaternionic contact manifold is a round 3-Sasakian sphere.

Review text

The authors provide an explicit lower bound for all eigenvalues of the sub-Laplacian operator \(\Delta\) defined in a seven-dimensional compact quaternionic contact (abridged by qc) manifold \((M,g,\mathbb Q)\). Loosely speaking, this means that \(M\) is a seven-dimensional manifold endowed with a smooth section \(g\) of positive definite quadratic form on the three-codimensional horizontal distribution \(H\) (equipped with an explicit Lie group structure), and \(\mathbb Q\) is a vector bundle over \(M\) of rank three and made up by endomorphisms of \(H\). Locally, \(\mathbb Q\) is similar to the set of unit quaternions. The case of a compact qc-manifold of dimension bigger than seven was already treated by the same authors. From the Biquards connection, the authors define the qc-Ricci tensor on the section of the tangent bundle \(TM\), also they define the normalized qc-scalar, denoted by \(S\). Accordingly, on \(H\) they provide the qc-Lichnerowicz type inequality. The authors also set up the \(P\)-function of a smooth function defined on \(M\) and it is given in terms of the third-order covariant derivative \(S\), the three generators of \(\mathbb Q\) and the torsion which is defined explicitly. As an application, they show the positivity of the \(P\)-function of any eigenfunction of \(\Delta\) defined on a seven-dimensional compact qc-Einstein manifold with \(S=2\). Thus, the principal theorem 1.1 states that if the qc-Lichnerowicz type inequality is satisfied and the \(P\)-function of each eigenfunction is positive, then its associated eigenvalue has an accurate lower bound.

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