Published November 16, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

About curvature, conformal metrics and warped products

  • 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