• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.62 no.4
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• pp.751-767
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• 2022

This paper deals with the Paneitz-Branson operator in compact Riemannian manifolds with negative Yamabe invariant. We start off by providing a new criterion for the positivity of the Paneitz-Branson operator when the Yamabe invariant of the manifold is negative. Another result stated in this paper is about the existence of a metric on a manifold of dimension 5 such that the Paneitz-Branson operator has multiple negative eigenvalues. Finally, we provide new inequalities related to the upper bound of the mean value of the Q-curvature.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.435-443
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• 2012

The Yamabe invariant is a topological invariant of a smooth closed manifold, which contains information about possible scalar curvature on it. It is well-known that a product manifold $T^m{\times}B$ where $T^m$ is the m-dimensional torus, and B is a closed spin manifold with nonzero $\^{A}$-genus has zero Yamabe invariant. We generalize this to various T-structured manifolds, for example $T^m$-bundles over such B whose transition functions take values in Sp(m, $\mathbb{Z}$) (or Sp(m - 1, $\mathbb{Z}$) ${\oplus}\;{{\pm}1}$ for odd m).

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.321-331
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• 2019

The present paper deals with a study of infinitesimal CL-transformations on Kenmotsu manifolds, whose metric is Yamabe soliton and obtained sufficient conditions for such solitons to be expanding, steady and shrinking. Among others, we find a necessary and sufficient condition of a Yamabe soliton on Kenmotsu manifold with respect to CL-connection to be Yamabe soliton on Kenmotsu manifold with respect to Levi-Civita connection. We found the necessary and sufficient condition for the Yamabe soliton structure to be invariant under Schouten-Van Kampen connection. Finally, we constructed an example of steady Yamabe soliton on 3-dimensional Kenmotsu manifolds with respect to Schouten-Van Kampen connection.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.165-171
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• 2021

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the geometry of complete gradient Yamabe soliton (Mn, g, f, λ) with constant scalar curvature admitting a non-homothetic conformal vector field V leaving the potential vector field invariant. We show that in such manifolds the potential function f is constant and the scalar curvature of g is determined by its soliton scalar. Considering the locally conformally flat case and conformal vector field V, without constant scalar curvature assumption, we show that g has constant curvature and determines the potential function f explicitly.