Warped product rigidity

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Abstract: In this paper we study the space of solutions to an overdetermined linear system involving the Hessian of functions. We show that if the solution space has dimension greater than one, then the underlying manifold has a very rigid warped product structure. We obtain a uniqueness result for prescribing the Ricci curvature of a warped product manifold over a fixed base. As an application, this warped product structure will be used to study warped product Einstein structures in "Uniqueness of warped product Einstein metrics and applications".


The authors study the space of solutions of a Hessian equation on a Riemannian manifold. They show that in the case where the dimension of this space is larger than one, the Riemannian manifold must be isometric to a certain warped product. Related rigidity and uniqueness results are given.











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