The Ricci pinching functional on solvmanifolds

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAZ020zbMATH Open1481.53067arXiv1808.01380OpenAlexW2959486849WikidataQ127964243 ScholiaQ127964243MaRDI QIDQ5000347FDOQ5000347

Cynthia Will, Jorge Lauret

Publication date: 12 July 2021

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the natural functional F=scal^2/|Ric|^2 on the space of all non-flat left-invariant metrics on all solvable Lie groups of a given dimension n. As an application of properties of the beta operator, we obtain that solvsolitons are the only global maxima of F restricted to the set of all left-invariant metrics on a given unimodular solvable Lie group, and beyond the unimodular case, we obtain the same result for almost-abelian Lie groups. Many other aspects of the behavior of F are clarified.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01380

zbMATH Keywords

solvable Lie groupssolvsolitonsunimodularalmost-abelian Lie groupsspace of invariant metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Analysis on other specific Lie groups (43A80)

Cited In (5)

• Almost abelian Lie groups, subgroups and quotients
• The structure of almost Abelian Lie algebras
• Homogeneous Einstein metrics on Euclidean spaces are Einstein solvmanifolds
• The Ricci pinching functional on solvmanifolds II
• Characterization of pinched Ricci curvature by functional inequalities

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