A Yamabe-type problem on smooth metric measure spaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1445518921zbMATH Open1334.53031OpenAlexW2962883038WikidataQ115167634 ScholiaQ115167634MaRDI QIDQ906992FDOQ906992

Authors Jeffrey S. Case

Publication date 1 February 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4358

zbMATH Keywords

minimizerssmooth metric measure spaceYamabe problemPerelman entropyYamabe-type problemweighted Yamabe constants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23)

Abstract: We describe and partially solve a natural Yamabe-type problem on smooth metric measure spaces which interpolates between the Yamabe problem and the problem of finding minimizers for Perelman's $u$-entropy. This problem reduces in all dimensions on Euclidean space to the characterization of the minimizers of the family of Gagliardo--Nirenberg--Sobolev inequalities studied by Del Pino and Dolbeault. We show that minimizers always exist on a compact manifold provided the so-called weighted Yamabe constant is strictly less than its value on Euclidean space. We also show that strict inequality holds for a large class of smooth metric measure spaces, but we will also give an example which shows that minimizers of the weighted Yamabe constant do not always exist.

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