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

DOI10.1007/S12220-012-9354-9MaRDI QIDQ472032zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Ivanov, Alexander Petkov, Dimiter Vassilev

Publication date 18 November 2014

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0779

zbMATH Keywords

sub-LaplacianBochner formulafirst eigenvalue estimatequaternionic contact

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26)

Abstract: The main technical result of the paper is a Bochner type formula for the sub-laplacian on a quaternionic contact manifold. With the help of this formula we establish a version of Lichnerowicz' theorem giving a lower bound of the eigenvalues of the sub-Laplacian under a lower bound on the $Sp(n)Sp(1)$ components of the qc-Ricci curvature. It is shown that in the case of a 3-Sasakian manifold the lower bound is reached iff the quaternionic contact manifold is a round 3-Sasakian sphere. Another goal of the paper is to establish a-priori estimates for square integrals of horizontal derivatives of smooth compactly supported functions. As an application, we prove a sharp inequality bounding the horizontal Hessian of a function by its sub-Laplacian on the quaternionic Heisenberg group.

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