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

DOI10.4171/JST/187zbMATH Open1390.53088arXiv1303.0409MaRDI QIDQ680708FDOQ680708

Dimiter Vassilev, Stefan Ivanov, Alexander Petkov

Publication date: 26 January 2018

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

sub-LaplacianLichnerowicz-type estimateObata sphere theoremquaternionic contact manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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