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Evolution of relative Yamabe constant under Ricci Flow

Differential Geometry 2019-02-01 v1

Abstract

Let WW be a manifold with boundary MM given together with a conformal class Cˉ\bar C which restricts to a conformal class CC on MM. Then the relative Yamabe constant YCˉ(W,M;C)Y_{\bar C}(W,M;C) is well-defined. We study the short-time behavior of the relative Yamabe constant Y[gˉt](W,M;C)Y_{[\bar g_t]}(W,M;C) under the Ricci flow gˉt\bar g_t on WW with boundary conditions that mean curvature Hgˉt0H_{\bar g_t}\equiv 0 and gˉtMC=[gˉ0]\bar{g}_t|_M\in C = [\bar{g}_0]. In particular, we show that if the initial metric gˉ0\bar{g}_0 is a Yamabe metric, then, under some natural assumptions, ddtt=0Y[gˉt](W,M;C)0\left.\frac{d}{dt}\right|_{t=0}Y_{[\bar g_t]}(W,M;C)\geq 0 and is equal to zero if and only the metric gˉ0\bar{g}_0 is Einstein.

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@article{arxiv.1901.11169,
  title  = {Evolution of relative Yamabe constant under Ricci Flow},
  author = {Boris Botvinnik and Peng Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.11169},
  year   = {2019}
}

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