Published November 16, 2007
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Journal article
About curvature, conformal metrics and warped products
Creators
- 1. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Trieste, Via Valerio 12/b, I-34127 Trieste (Italy)
- 2. Department of Mathematics, Bilkent University, Bilkent, 06800 Ankara (Turkey)
Description
We consider the curvature of a family of warped products of two pseduo-Riemannian manifolds (B, gB) and (F, gF) furnished with metrics of the form c2gB + w2gF and, in particular, of the type w2μgB + w2gF, where c, w:B → (0, ∞) are smooth functions and μ is a real parameter. We obtain suitable expressions for the Ricci tensor and scalar curvature of such products that allow us to establish results about the existence of Einstein or constant scalar curvature structures in these categories. If (B, gB) is Riemannian, the latter question involves nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations with concave-convex nonlinearities and singular partial differential equations of the Lichnerowicz-York-type among others
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1088/1751-8113/40/46/006;
- PII
- S1751-8113(07)48435-9;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 46
- Journal Page Range
- p. 13907-13930
- ISSN
- 1751-8121
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39028886
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; METRICS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RICCI TENSOR; RIEMANN SPACE; SCALARS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; SPACE; TENSORS