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Compactness of isospectral conformal metrics on 4-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2019-12-02 v1

Abstract

Let a sequence of conformal Riemannian metrics {gk=uk2g0}\{g_k=u_k^2g_0\} be isospectral to g0g_0 over a compact boundaryless smooth 4-dimension manifold (M,g0)(M,g_0). We prove that the subsequence of conformal factors {uk}\{u_k\} converges to uu weakly in Wloc2,p(MS)W^{2,p}_{loc}(M\setminus \mathcal{S}) for some p<2p<2, where S\mathcal{S} is a finite set of points and uW2,p(M,g0)u\in W^{2,p}(M,g_0). Moreover, if the isospectral invariant MR(gk)dVgk6Vol(M,gk)\frac{\int_M R(g_k)dV_{g_k}}{6\sqrt{\mathrm{Vol}(M,g_k)}} is strictly smaller than the Yamabe constant of the standard sphere S4\mathbb{S}^4, then the subsequence of distance functions {dk}\{d_k\} defined by {gk}\{g_k\} uniformly converges to dud_u and the subsequence of metric spaces {(M,dk)}\{(M,d_k)\} converges to the metric space (M,du)(M,d_u) in the Gromov-Hausdorff topology, where dud_u is the distance function defined by u2g0u^2g_0.

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@article{arxiv.1911.13100,
  title  = {Compactness of isospectral conformal metrics on 4-manifolds},
  author = {Ke Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.13100},
  year   = {2019}
}