Chang's sharp relative comparison conjecture for Poincaré–Einstein manifolds

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Let (XN,g+)(X^N,g_+), with N=n+13N=n+1\ge 3, be a smooth Poincaré–Einstein manifold with conformal infinity (Mn,[h])(M^n,[h]). Assume that Y(M,[h])>0Y(M,[h])>0, and let (X,[gˉ])(\overline X,[\bar g]) denote its conformal compactification. Then Chang's sharp relative comparison conjecture.

Y1(X,M,[gˉ])Y1(S+n+1,Sn,[gS+n+1])(Y(M,[h])Y(Sn,[gSn]))nn+1.\frac{Y_1(\overline X,M,[\bar g])}{Y_1(\mathbb S^{n+1}_+,\mathbb S^n,[g_{\mathbb S^{n+1}_+}])} \ge \left(\frac{Y(M,[h])}{Y(\mathbb S^n,[g_{\mathbb S^n}])}\right)^{\frac{n}{n+1}}.

Equality holds if and only if (XN,g+)(X^N,g_+) is isometric to (HN,gHN)(\mathbb H^N,g_{\mathbb H^N}). The exponent nn+1\frac{n}{n+1} is forced by scaling. The conjecture proposes the sharp conformally invariant comparison inequality motivated by earlier inequalities of Gursky–Han and the type-II Escobar–Yamabe compactification; the general validity and rigidity statement remain to be established.

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Nan Wu, “A sharp relative comparison inequality for conformal fillings of Poincaré–Einstein manifolds”, arXiv:2607.13742 (2026).

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