Some unstable critical metrics for the L^n2-norm of the curvature tensor

DOI10.4310/MRL.2014.V21.N2.A2MaRDI QIDQ743742zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Atreyee Bhattacharya, Soma Maity

Publication date 30 September 2014

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5774

zbMATH Keywords

critical metricslocally symmetric spacesRiemannian functionalstabilityweakly stable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B20) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Critical metrics (58E11)

Abstract: We consider the Riemannian functional defined on the space of Riemannian metrics with unit volume on a closed smooth manifold $M$ given by $mathcal{R}_{fracn2}(g):=in{t}_M|R(g){|}^{fracn2}d{v}_g$ where $R(g)$, $d{v}_g$ denote the Riemannian curvature and volume form corresponding to $g$. We show that there are locally symmetric spaces which are unstable critical points for this functional.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a closed smooth manifold of dimension \(n\geq 3\) and \(\mathcal{M}_1\) denote the space of Riemannian metrics on \(M\) consisting of metrics with unit volume. The authors study the following Riemannian functional \(\mathcal{R}_p(g)=\int_M|R(g)|^pdv_g\), where \(R(g)\) and \(dv_g\) denote the corresponding Riemannian curvature and volume form and \(p\in[2,\infty)\). Note that for \(p = n/2\) the functional is scale-invariant. In [Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Math. Sci. 124, No. 3, 383--409 (2013; Zbl 1309.53037)] the second author proved that the Riemannian metrics with non-zero constant sectional curvature are strictly stable for \(\mathcal{R}_p\) for certain values of \(p\) and that they are strict local minimizer for \(\mathcal{R}_p\) for those values of \(p\). In this paper the authors prove that there are locally symmetric spaces \((M,g)\) of compact type which are unstable critical points for the functional \(\mathcal{R}_{\frac{n}{2}}(g):= \int_M |R(g)|^{\frac{n}{2}}dv_g\): If the universal cover of \(M\) is one of the following then \((M,g)\) is not weakly stable for \(\mathcal{R}_{\frac{n}{2}}\): \[ SU(q)\;(q\geq 3), \;\;Sp(q)\;(q\geq 2), \;\;\mathrm{Spin}(5), \;\;\mathrm{Spin}(6), \;\;SU(2q+2)/Sp(q+1), \] \[ Sp(q+l)/Sp(q)\times Sp(l) \;(l,q \geq 1), \;\;E_6/F_4, \;\;F_4/\mathrm{Spin}(9). \]

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