Prescribing the mixed scalar curvature of a foliation

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-04675-4_5zbMATH Open1331.53044arXiv1203.6361OpenAlexW31430621MaRDI QIDQ5263633FDOQ5263633

Authors: Leonid Zelenko, Vladimir Yu. Rovenskij 

Publication date: 17 July 2015

Published in: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply conformal flows of metrics restricted to the orthogonal distribution $D$ of a foliation to study the question: Which foliations admit a metric such that the leaves are totally geodesic and the mixed scalar curvature is positive? Our evolution operator includes the integrability tensor of $D$, and for the case of integrable orthogonal distribution the flow velocity is proportional to the mixed scalar curvature. We observe that the mean curvature vector $H$ of $D$ satisfies along the leaves the forced Burgers equation, this reduces to the linear Schr"{o}dinger equation, whose potential function is a certain "non-umbilicity" measure of $D$. On order to show convergence of the solution metrics $g_t$ as $toinfty$, we normalize the flow, and instead of a foliation consider a fiber bundle $pi:MoB$ of a Riemannian manifold $(M,g_0)$. In this case, if the "non-umbilicity" of $D$ is smaller in a sense then the "non-integrability", then the limit mixed scalar curvature function is positive. For integrable $D$, we give examples with foliated surfaces and twisted products.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6361

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zbMATH Keywords

parabolic differential equationmean curvature vectorRiemannian foliationsmixed scalar curvatureSchrödinger operatortwisted Riemannian product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12)

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