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On Compact Quasi-Einstein Metrics of Constant Scalar Curvature

Differential Geometry 2025-12-24 v2

Abstract

We show that all compact quasi-Einstein metrics of constant scalar curvature in dimension three are locally homogeneous. We accomplish this by using the equivalence of constant scalar curvature quasi-Einstein metrics (M,g,X)(M,g,X) and quasi-Einstein metrics with XX Killing in the compact case to make a connection to Sasakian geometry in dimension three. In higher dimensions, there are examples which are non-locally homogeneous with constant scalar curvature. Such examples were constructed by Kunduri-Lucietti as circle bundles over a compact K\"ahler-Einstein base. We then ask when compact quasi-Einstein metrics of constant scalar curvature can be constructed as circle bundles over Einstein metrics, and prove that the base must in fact be K\"ahler-Einstein, assuming a conjecture due to Goldberg. These spaces, in fact, admit one parameter families of quasi-Einstein metrics by considering the canonical variation, which we study further.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21892,
  title  = {On Compact Quasi-Einstein Metrics of Constant Scalar Curvature},
  author = {Eric Cochran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21892},
  year   = {2025}
}

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24 pages, added citations, fixed a few typos