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Infinitely many solutions to the Yamabe problem on noncompact manifolds

Differential Geometry 2019-02-21 v2

Abstract

We establish the existence of infinitely many complete metrics with constant scalar curvature on prescribed conformal classes on certain noncompact product manifolds. These include products of closed manifolds with constant positive scalar curvature and simply-connected symmetric spaces of noncompact or Euclidean type; in particular, Sm×Rd\mathbb S^m \times\mathbb R^d, m2m\geq2, d1d\geq1, and Sm×Hd\mathbb S^m\times\mathbb H^d, 2d<m2\leq d<m. As a consequence, we obtain infinitely many periodic solutions to the singular Yamabe problem on SmSk\mathbb S^m\setminus\mathbb S^k, for all 0k<(m2)/20\leq k<(m-2)/2, the maximal range where nonuniqueness is possible. We also show that all Bieberbach groups in Iso(Rd)Iso(\mathbb R^d) are periods of bifurcating branches of solutions to the Yamabe problem on Sm×Rd\mathbb S^m\times\mathbb R^d, m2m\geq2, d1d\geq1.

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@article{arxiv.1603.07788,
  title  = {Infinitely many solutions to the Yamabe problem on noncompact manifolds},
  author = {Renato G. Bettiol and Paolo Piccione},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07788},
  year   = {2019}
}

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