The Yamabe invariants of orbifolds and cylindrical manifolds, and L[2]-harmonic spinors

DOI10.1515/CRLL.2004.067MaRDI QIDQ4818478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kazuo Akutagawa, B. I. Botvinnik

Publication date 28 September 2004

Published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0204072

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^2\)-harmonic spinorscylindrical manifoldsorbifoldsYamabe invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: We study the Yamabe invariants of cylindrical manifolds and compact orbifolds with a finite number of singularities, by means of conformal geometry and the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer $L^2$-index theory. For an $n$-orbifold $M$ with singularities $Sigm{a}_{Gamma}=(check{p}_1,Gamm{a}_1),\mathrm{...},(check{p}_s,Gamm{a}_s)$ (where each group $Gamm{a}_j<O(n)$ is of finite order), we define and study the emph{orbifold Yamabe invariant} $Y^{orb}(M)$. We prove that $Y^{orb}(M)$ coincides with the corresponding $h$-$emphcylindricalYamabeinvariant$ $Y^{hextrm-cyl}(Msetminuscheck{p}_1,\mathrm{...},check{p}_s)$ defined by the authors cite{AB2}, where $h=h_{Gamm{a}_j}$ is the standard metric on the slice $S^{n-1}/Gamm{a}_j$ of each end with infinity $check{p}_j$. Using this, we show that $Y^{orb}(M)$ is bounded by $Y(S^n)/d$ from above, where $d=ma{x}_j|Gamm{a}_j{|}^{frac2n}$. For a cylindrical 4-manifold $X$ with a general slice metric $h$ on the end, we also establish a method for estimating the $h$-cylindrical Yamabe invariant $Y^{hextrm-cyl}(X)$ from above, in terms of the geometry and topology of $X$. We conclude by an explicit estimate of $Y^{hextrm-cyl}(X)$ for particular cylindrical 4-manifolds $X$, including that of $Y^{orb}(M)$ for 4-orbifolds $M$.

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