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

DOI10.1007/S12220-012-9354-9zbMATH Open1303.53060arXiv1112.0779OpenAlexW2081788664MaRDI QIDQ472032FDOQ472032

Authors: Stefan Ivanov, Alexander Petkov, Dimiter Vassilev 

Publication date: 18 November 2014

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

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.

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

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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)

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