Wang's type II Yamabe rigidity conjecture

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Let (Mn,g)(M^n,g) be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold with Ric≥0Ric\geq 0 and second fundamental form Π≥1\Pi\geq 1 on its boundary Σ\Sigma. Let u∈C∞(M)u\in C^{\infty}(M) be a positive solution of

Δu=0onM,∂u∂ν+λu=uqonΣ.\begin{array}{ccc} \Delta u=0 & \text{on} & M,\\ \frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}+\lambda u=u^q & \text{on} & \Sigma. \end{array}

Here λ>0\lambda>0 and 1<q≤nn−21<q\leq \frac{n}{n-2}. Wang's type II Yamabe rigidity conjecture. If λ≤1q−1\lambda\leq \frac{1}{q-1}, then uu must be constant unless q=nn−2q=\frac{n}{n-2}, MM is isometric to the closed unit ball Bn‾⊂Rn\overline{\mathbb B^n}\subset\mathbb R^n, and uu corresponds to

ua(x)=[2n−21−∣a∣21+∣a∣2∣x∣2−2x⋅a](n−2)/2u_a(x)=\left[\frac{2}{n-2}\frac{1-|a|^2}{1+|a|^2|x|^2-2x\cdot a}\right]^{(n-2)/2}

for some a∈Bna\in\mathbb B^n. This is the proposed sharp rigidity statement for the type II Yamabe problem under nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary; the supplied text does not establish its resolution.

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Qianqiao Guo, Fengbo Hang and Xiaodong Wang, “Liouville type theorems on manifolds with nonnegative curvature and strictly convex boundary”, arXiv:1912.05574 (2020).

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