Constant scalar curvature metrics on connected sums英文文献资料.docVIP

CONSTANTSCALARCURVATUREMETRICS ONCONNECTEDSUMS DOMINIC JOYCE Received 13August 2001 and inrevised form 12March 2002 TheYamabe problem (proved in1984)guarantees theexistence ofametricofcon- stantscalarcurvature ineachconformal classofRiemannian metricsonacompact manifold of dimension n≥3, which minimizes the total scalar curvature on this conformal class. Let (M,g)and (M,g)be compact Riemannian n-manifolds. We form their connected sum M#M by removing small balls of radius
from M,Mandgluingtogether the?n?1boundaries, andmakeametricgonM#M byjoining together g,g with apartition ofunity. Inthis paper, weuse analysis tostudy metrics withconstant scalar curvature onM#M intheconformal class of g. By the Yamabe problem, we may rescale g and g to have constant scalar curvature 1,0,or?1.Thus, there are nine cases, which we handle separately. We show thattheconstant scalar curvature metrics either develop small “necks” sep- arating M and M, or one of M, M is crushed small by the conformal factor. When both sides have positive scalar curvature, we ?nd three metrics with scalar curvature 1inthe same conformal class. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation: 58E11, 53C20. 1. Introduction. Let(M,g)and(M,g)becompactmanifoldsofdimen- sion n≥3.The connected sum M =M#M isthe result ofremoving asmall ballBn fromeachmanifold, andjoiningtheresulting manifolds attheircom- mon boundary ?n?1.By smoothly joining g and g,we can also construct a 1-parameter family of metrics gt on M for t ∈(0,δ), where t measures the radiusoftheexcisedballsBn. In this paper, we suppose g and g have constant scalar curvature (not necessarily thesamevalue),andstudy(someof)themetrics g?t withconstant scalarcurvatureintheconformalclassofgtforsmallt.Ourmethodistowrite down explicit metrics whose scalar curvature is close to constant and show, usinganalysis, thattheycanbeadjusted byasmallconformal changetogive metricswithconstant scalarcurvatur