Complex hyperbolic manifolds and exotic smooth structures.
In this paper we investigate one-dimensional sectional curvatures of Riemannian manifolds, conformal deformations of the Riemannian metrics and the structure of locally conformally homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. We prove that the nonnegativity of the one-dimensional sectional curvature of a homogeneous Riemannian space attracts nonnegativity of the Ricci curvature and we show that the inverse is incorrect with the help of the theorems O. Kowalski-S. Nikčevi'c [K-N], D. Alekseevsky-B. Kimelfeld...
It is proved that if an n-dimensional compact connected Riemannian manifold (M,g) with Ricci curvature Ric satisfying 0 < Ric ≤ (n-1)(2-nc/λ₁)c for a constant c admits a nonzero conformal gradient vector field, then it is isometric to Sⁿ(c), where λ₁ is the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplacian operator on M. Also, it is observed that existence of a nonzero conformal gradient vector field on an n-dimensional compact connected Einstein manifold forces it to...
For odd-dimensional Poincaré–Einstein manifolds , we study the set of harmonic -forms (for ) which are (with ) on the conformal compactification of . This set is infinite-dimensional for small but it becomes finite-dimensional if is large enough, and in one-to-one correspondence with the direct sum of the relative cohomology and the kernel of the Branson–Gover [3] differential operators on the conformal infinity . We also relate the set of forms in the kernel of to the conformal...
Given a three-dimensional manifold with boundary, the Cartan-Hadamard theorem implies that there are obstructions to filling the interior of the manifold with a complete metric of negative curvature. In this paper, we show that any three-dimensional manifold with boundary can be filled conformally with a complete metric satisfying a pinching condition: given any small constant, the ratio of the largest sectional curvature to (the absolute value of) the scalar curvature is less than this constant....
In this paper we obtain an interesting relation between the covariant derivatives of the Jacobi operator valid for all geodesic on the flag manifold . As a consequence, an explicit expression of the Jacobi operator independent of the geodesic can be obtained on such a manifold. Moreover, we show the way to calculate the Jacobi vector fields on this manifold by a new formula valid on every g.o. space.
L’objet de cette étude est de trouver des constantes explicites (dépendant d’un minimum d’invariants riemanniens et les plus faibles possible) dans différents types d’inégalités de Sobolev.