The Obata sphere theorems on a quaternionic contact manifold of dimension bigger than seven

DOI10.4171/JST/187MaRDI QIDQ680708zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Stefan Ivanov, Alexander Petkov, Dimiter Vassilev

Publication date 26 January 2018

Published in Journal of Spectral Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0409

zbMATH Keywords

Lichnerowicz-type estimateObata sphere theoremquaternionic contact manifoldsub-Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Spectral theory; eigenvalue problems on manifolds (58C40) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: We prove a quaternionic contact versions of the Obata's sphere theorems. We show that if the first positive eigenvalue of the sub-Laplacian on a compact qc manifold of dimension bigger than seven takes the smallest possible value then, up to a homothety of the qc structure, the manifold is qc equivalent to the standard 3-Sasakian sphere. We also give a version of the theorem on non-compact qc manifold which is complete with respect to the associated Riemannian metric using the existence of a function with traceless horizontal Hessian. A qc version of the Liouville theorem is shown for qc-conformal maps between open connected sets of the 3-Sasakian sphere.

Review text

The full quaternionic contact version of Obata's results for a general quaternionic contact manifold of dimension bigger then 7 is proved. It is also proved that the equality case of the Lichnerowicz-type inequality on a compact quaternionic contact manifold of dimension at least 11 can be achieved only on the 3-Sasakian sphere. This result is generalized for non-compact complete quaternionic contact manifolds.

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