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Invariant conformal metrics on S^n

Differential Geometry 2008-11-17 v2

Abstract

In this paper we use the relationship between conformal metrics on the sphere and horospherically convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space for giving sufficient conditions on a conformal metric to be radial under some constrain on the eigenvalues of its Schouten tensor. Also, we study conformal metrics on the sphere which are invariant by a kk-parameter subgroup of conformal diffeomorphisms of the sphere, giving a bound on its maximum dimension. Moreover, we classify conformal metrics on the sphere whose eigenvalues of the Shouten tensor are all constant (we call them \emph{isoparametric conformal metrics}), and we use a classification result for radial conformal metrics which are solution of some σk\sigma _k -Yamabe type problem for obtaining existence of rotational spheres and Delaunay-type hypersurfaces for some classes of Weingarten hypersurfaces in \hn+1\h ^{n+1}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0808.2658,
  title  = {Invariant conformal metrics on S^n},
  author = {Jose M. Espinar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2658},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

We have included the classification of conformal metrics on the sphere whose eigenvalues of the Shouten tensor are all constant (we call them \emph{isoparametric conformal metrics})

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