Harmonic transforms of complete Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1134/S0001434616090133MaRDI QIDQ509145zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors I. I. Tsyganok, Sergey E. Stepanov

Publication date 9 February 2017

Published in Mathematical Notes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434616090133

zbMATH Keywords

energy functional harmonic transformations infinitesimal harmonic transformation Ricci solitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Review text

Let \(M\) be a non-compact and connected smooth manifold with Riemannian metrics \(g\), \(\overline{g}\). A diffeomorphism \(f: (M,g)\longrightarrow (M,\overline{g}) \) is called \textit{harmonic} if it is a critical point of the energy functional \[ E_\Omega =\frac{1}{2}\int_{\Omega}\| df\|^2 dV_g \] for any open and relatively compact subset \(\Omega \subset M\) with respect to variations of \(f\) compactly supported on \(\Omega.\) The authors prove the following result: If the sectional curvature of \(\overline{g}\) is non-negative then there is no harmonic transformation \(f\) of finite energy such that the Ricci tensors of the metrics \(g\) and \(\overline{g}\) at the points \(y=f(x)\) satisfy \(\mathrm{Ric}\geq f^\ast\overline{\text{Ric}}\). The authors present further vanishing theorems for harmonic and infinitesimal harmonic transformations and for Ricci solitons.

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