Deformations of Q-curvature. I

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-1038-ZzbMATH Open1355.53026arXiv1512.05389OpenAlexW2962987441MaRDI QIDQ502256FDOQ502256

Authors: Yueh-Ju Lin, Wei Yuan 

Publication date: 3 January 2017

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we investigate deformation problems of $Q$-curvature on closed Riemannian manifolds. One of the most crucial notions we use is the $Q$-singular space, which was introduced by Chang-Gursky-Yang during 1990's. Inspired by the early work of Fischer-Marsden, we derived several results about geometry related to $Q$-curvature. It includes classifications for nonnegative Einstein $Q$-singular spaces, linearized stability of non-$Q$-singular spaces and a local rigidity result for flat manifolds with nonnegative $Q$-curvature. As for global results, we showed that any smooth function can be realized as a $Q$-curvature on generic $Q$-flat manifolds, while on the contrary a locally conformally flat metric on $n$-tori with nonnegative $Q$-curvature has to be flat. In particular, there is no metric with nonnegative $Q$-curvature on $4$-tori unless it is flat.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05389

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zbMATH Keywords

\(Q\)-singular spaceEinstein \(Q\)-singular spacesgeneric \(Q\)-flat manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Rigidity results (53C24)

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