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Escobar-Yamabe compactifications for Poincare-Einstein manifolds and rigidity theorems

Differential Geometry 2017-12-08 v1

Abstract

Let (Xn,g+)(X^{n},g_+) (n3)(n\geq 3) be a Poincar\'{e}-Einstein manifold which is C3,αC^{3,\alpha} conformally compact with conformal infinity (X,[g^])(\partial X, [\hat{g}]). On the conformal compactification (X,gˉ=ρ2g+)(\overline{X}, \bar g=\rho^2g_+) via some boundary defining function ρ\rho, there are two types of Yamabe constants: Y(X,X,[gˉ])Y(\overline{X},\partial X,[\bar g]) and Q(X,X,[gˉ])Q(\overline{X},\partial X,[\bar g]). (See definitions (\ref{def.type1}) and (\ref{def.type2})). In \cite{GH}, Gursky and Han gave an inequality between Y(X,X,[gˉ])Y(\overline{X},\partial X,[\bar g]) and Y(X,[g^])Y(\partial X,[\hat{g}]). In this paper, we first show that the equality holds in Gursky-Han's theorem if and only if (Xn,g+)(X^{n},g_+) is isometric to the standard hyperbolic space (Hn,gH)(\mathbb{H}^{n}, g_{\mathbb{H}}). Secondly, we derive an inequality between Q(X,X,[gˉ])Q(\overline{X},\partial X,[\bar g]) and Y(X,[g^])Y(\partial X, [\hat g]), and show that the equality holds if and only if (Xn,g+)(X^{n},g_+) is isometric to (Hn,gH)(\mathbb{H}^{n}, g_{\mathbb{H}}). Based on this, we give a simple proof of the rigidity theorem for Poincar\'{e}-Einstein manifolds with conformal infinity being conformally equivalent to the standard sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1712.02540,
  title  = {Escobar-Yamabe compactifications for Poincare-Einstein manifolds and rigidity theorems},
  author = {Xuezhang Chen and Mijia Lai and Fang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02540},
  year   = {2017}
}

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