Rigidity conjecture for nonnegative Q-curvature on closed flat manifolds

Let n3n\geq 3, and let (Mn,gˉ)(M^n,\bar{g}) be a connected closed flat Riemannian manifold. A metric has pointwise positive Q-curvature if its Q-curvature is positive at every point. Rigidity conjecture. There is no metric on MM with pointwise positive Q-curvature. Moreover, if a metric gg on MM satisfies

Qg0,Q_g\geq 0,

then gg is flat. This would extend the preceding rigidity results for flat tori to all closed flat manifolds, using the Bieberbach theorem; the source does not provide a resolution.

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Yueh-Ju Lin and Wei Yuan, “Deformations of Q-curvature I”, arXiv:1512.05389 (2015).

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