Perelman's invariant, Ricci flow, and the Yamabe invariants of smooth manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00013-006-2181-0zbMATH Open1184.53042arXivmath/0610130OpenAlexW2115124262MaRDI QIDQ869259FDOQ869259

Authors: Kazuo Akutagawa, Masashi Ishida, Claude Lebrun 

Publication date: 2 March 2007

Published in: Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In his study of Ricci flow, Perelman introduced a smooth-manifold invariant called lambda-bar. We show here that, for completely elementary reasons, this invariant simply equals the Yamabe invariant, alias the sigma constant, whenever the latter is non-positive. On the other hand, the Perelman invariant just equals + infinity whenever the Yamabe invariant is positive.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610130

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zbMATH Keywords

Ricci flowscalar curvatureconformal geometryYamabe problemPerelman invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

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