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Besse conjecture with positive isotropic curvature

Differential Geometry 2021-03-30 v1

Abstract

The critical point equation arises as a critical point of the total scalar curvature functional defined on the space of constant scalar curvature metrics of a unit volume on a compact manifold. In this equation, there exists a function ff on the manifold that satisfies the following (1+f)Ric=Ddf+nf+n1n(n1)sg. (1+f){\rm Ric} = Ddf + \frac{nf +n-1}{n(n-1)}sg. It has been conjectured that if (g,f)(g, f) is a solution of the critical point equation, then gg is Einstein and so (M,g)(M, g) is isometric to a standard sphere. In this paper, we show that this conjecture is true if the given Riemannian metric has positive isotropic curvature.

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@article{arxiv.2103.15482,
  title  = {Besse conjecture with positive isotropic curvature},
  author = {Seungsu Hwang and Gabjin Yun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.15482},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages without figures

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