Critical metrics of the total scalar curvature functional on 4-manifolds

2015/05/07 by Barros, A., Leandro, B., Ribeiro, E.
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1505.01644

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical points of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of unitary volume, for simplicity CPE metrics. It was conjectured in 1980's that every CPE metric must be Einstein. We prove that a 4-dimensional CPE metric with harmonic tensor W⁺ must be isometric to a round sphere \BbbS⁴.

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