About curvature, conformal metrics and warped products
Differential Geometry
2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
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Abstract
We consider the curvature of a family of warped products of two pseduo-Riemannian manifolds and furnished with metrics of the form and, in particular, of the type , where are smooth functions and is a real parameter. We obtain suitable expressions for the Ricci tensor and scalar curvature of such products that allow us to establish results about the existence of Einstein or constant scalar curvature structures in these categories. If is Riemannian, the latter question involves nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations with concave-convex nonlinearities and singular partial differential equations of the Lichnerowicz-York type among others.
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@article{arxiv.0704.0595,
title = {About curvature, conformal metrics and warped products},
author = {Fernando Dobarro and Bulent Unal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0595},
year = {2008}
}
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32 pages, 3 figures