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On the Yamabe invariant of certain compact manifolds with boundary

Differential Geometry 2023-03-31 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We generalize Kobayashi's connected-sum inequality to the λ\lambda-Yamabe invariants. As an application, we calculate the λ\lambda-Yamabe invariants of #m1RPn#m2(RPn1×S1)#lHn#kS+n\#m_1\mathbb{RP}^n\# m_2(\mathbb{RP}^{n-1}\times S^1)\#lH^n\#kS_+^n, for any λ[0,1]\lambda\in [0,1], n3n\geq 3, provided k+l1k+l\geq 1. As a corollary, we prove that RPn\mathbb{RP}^n minus finitely many disjoint nn-balls have the same λ\lambda-Yamabe invariants as the hemi-sphere, which forms an interesting contrast with the famous Bray-Neves results on the Yamabe invariants of RP3\mathbb{RP}^3.

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@article{arxiv.2302.11445,
  title  = {On the Yamabe invariant of certain compact manifolds with boundary},
  author = {Xuan Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11445},
  year   = {2023}
}

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