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Surgery and equivariant Yamabe invariant

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We consider the equivariant Yamabe problem, i.e. the Yamabe problem on the space of G-invariant metrics for a compact Lie group G. The G-Yamabe invariant is analogously defined as the supremum of the constant scalar curvatures of unit volume G-invariant metrics minimizing the total scalar curvature functional in their G-invariant conformal subclasses. We prove a formula about how the G-Yamabe invariant changes under the surgery of codimension 3 or more, and compute some G-Yamabe invariants.

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@article{arxiv.math/0604387,
  title  = {Surgery and equivariant Yamabe invariant},
  author = {Chanyoung Sung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0604387},
  year   = {2007}
}