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Some $L^p$ rigidity results for complete manifolds with harmonic curvature

Differential Geometry 2016-01-12 v2

Abstract

Let (Mn,g)(n3)(M^n, g)(n\geq3) be an nn-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold with harmonic curvature and positive Yamabe constant. Denote by RR and Rm˚\mathring{Rm} the scalar curvature and the trace-free Riemannian curvature tensor of MM, respectively. The main result of this paper states that Rm˚\mathring{Rm} goes to zero uniformly at infinity if for pn2p\geq \frac n2, the LpL^{p}-norm of Rm˚\mathring{Rm} is finite. Moreover, If RR is positive, then (Mn,g)(M^n, g) is compact. As applications, we prove that (Mn,g)(M^n, g) is isometric to a spherical space form if for pn2p\geq \frac n2, RR is positive and the LpL^{p}-norm of Rm˚\mathring{Rm} is pinched in [0,C1)[0,C_1), where C1C_1 is an explicit positive constant depending only on n,pn, p, RR and the Yamabe constant. In particular, we prove an Lp(n2p<n22(1+14n))L^{p}(\frac n2\leq p<\frac{n-2}{2}(1+\sqrt{1-\frac4n}))-norm of Ric˚\mathring{Ric} pinching theorem for complete, simply connected, locally conformally flat Riemannian n(n6)n(n\geq 6)-manifolds with constant negative scalar curvature. We give an isolation theorem of the trace-free Ricci curvature tensor of compact locally conformally flat Riemannian nn-manifolds with constant positive scalar curvature, which improves Thereom 1.1 and Corollary 1 of E. Hebey and M. Vaugon \cite{{HV}}. This rsult is sharped, and we can precisely characterize the case of equality.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07094,
  title  = {Some $L^p$ rigidity results for complete manifolds with harmonic curvature},
  author = {Hai-Ping Fu and Li-Qun Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07094},
  year   = {2016}
}

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