3-manifolds with Yamabe invariant greater than that of R P^3

DOI10.4310/JDG/1175266277MaRDI QIDQ874684zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kazuo Akutagawa, André Neves

Publication date 10 April 2007

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502122

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65)

Abstract: We complete the classification (started by Bray and the second author) of all closed 3-manifolds with Yamabe invariant greater than that of $R{P}^3$, by showing that such manifolds are either $S^3$ or finite connected sums $$ for $m+ngeq1$, where $S^{2}ildeimes{S}^1$ is the nonorientable $S^2$-bundle over $S^1$. A key ingredient is Aubin's Lemma, which says that if the Yamabe constant is positive, then it is strictly less than the Yamabe constant of any of its non-trivial finite conformal coverings. This lemma, combined with inverse mean curvature flow and with analysis of the Green's functions for the conformal Laplacians on specific finite and normal infinite Riemannian coverings, will allow us to construct a family of nice test functions on the finite coverings and thus prove the desired result.

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