scholarly journals Variational theory for the total scalar curvature functional for riemannian metrics and related topics

1989 ◽  
pp. 120-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Schoen
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Variational Theory ◽  
Total Scalar Curvature ◽  
Scalar Curvature Functional

scholarly journals On static manifolds and related critical spaces with cyclic parallel Ricci tensor

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Baltazar ◽  
A. Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Ricci Tensor ◽  
Critical Spaces ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Critical Metrics ◽  
Volume Functional ◽  
Total Scalar Curvature ◽  
Cyclic Parallel Ricci Tensor ◽  
Scalar Curvature Functional ◽  
Parallel Ricci Tensor

Abstract We classify 3-dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds (M 3, g) that admit a non-constant solution to the equation −Δfg +Hess f − f Ric = μ Ric +λg for some special constants (μ, λ), under the assumption that the manifold has cyclic parallel Ricci tensor. Namely, the structures that we study here are: positive static triples, critical metrics of the volume functional, and critical metrics of the total scalar curvature functional. We also classify n-dimensional critical metrics of the volume functional with non-positive scalar curvature and satisfying the cyclic parallel Ricci tensor condition.

scholarly journals ON UNIQUENESS AND DIFFERENTIABILITY IN THE SPACE OF YAMABE METRICS

2005 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 299-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL T. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Locally Maximal ◽  
Generic Set ◽  
Scalar Curvature Functional

It is shown that there is a unique Yamabe representative for a generic set of conformal classes in the space of metrics on any manifold. At such classes, the scalar curvature functional is shown to be differentiable on the space of Yamabe metrics. In addition, some sufficient conditions are given which imply that a Yamabe metric of locally maximal scalar curvature is necessarily Einstein.

A Variational Characterization of Contact Metric Manifolds With Vanishing Torsion

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Blair ◽  
D. Perrone
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Integral Functional ◽  
Riemannian Metrics ◽  
Contact Manifold ◽  
Contact Condition ◽  
Contact Metric Manifolds ◽  
Point Condition ◽  
Webster Scalar Curvature ◽  
Group Of Isometries

AbstractChern and Hamilton considered the integral of the Webster scalar curvature as a functional on the set of CR-structures on a compact 3-dimensional contact manifold. Critical points of this functional can be viewed as Riemannian metrics associated to the contact structure for which the characteristic vector field generates a 1-parameter group of isometries i.e. K-contact metrics. Tanno defined a higher dimensional generalization of the Webster scalar curvature, computed the critical point condition of the corresponding integral functional and found that it is not the K-contact condition. In this paper two other generalizations are given and the critical point conditions of the corresponding integral functionals are found. For the second of these, this is the K-contact condition, suggesting that it may be the proper generalization of the Webster scalar curvature.

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