A Yamabe-type problem on smooth metric measure spaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1445518921zbMATH Open1334.53031arXiv1306.4358OpenAlexW2962883038WikidataQ115167634 ScholiaQ115167634MaRDI QIDQ906992FDOQ906992

Authors: Jeffrey S. Case 

Publication date: 1 February 2016

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

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.

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

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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)

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