Schoen's Weyl-vanishing conjecture for Yamabe blow-up points

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Let (M,g0)(M,g_0) be a Riemannian manifold of dimension n≥6n\geq 6, and let gν=uν4n−2g0g_\nu=u_\nu^\frac{4}{n-2}g_0 be a sequence of solutions to the Yamabe problem. A point y‾∈M\overline{y}\in M is a blow-up point if it is a blow-up point of this sequence. Set

d=[n−22].d=\left[\frac{n-2}{2}\right].

Schoen's Weyl-vanishing conjecture. If y‾\overline{y} is a blow-up point, then the Weyl tensor Wg0W_{g_0} of g0g_0 vanishes at y‾\overline{y} to order [n−62]\left[\frac{n-6}{2}\right]; equivalently,

lim sup⁡y→y‾dg0(y‾,y)2−d∣Wg0(y)∣=0.\limsup_{y\to\overline{y}}d_{g_0}(\overline{y},y)^{2-d}\lvert W_{g_0}(y)\rvert=0.

This conjecture concerns the geometric restrictions imposed on possible blow-up points in the Yamabe problem. The compactness conjecture was known in the locally conformally flat and three-dimensional cases, and had been proved in dimensions 44 and 55; dimensions n≥6n\geq6 were described as more subtle because the associated asymptotically flat metric need not have a well-defined ADM mass without suitable Weyl-tensor vanishing.

References

Primary source

S. Brendle and F. C. Marques, “Recent progress on the Yamabe problem”, arXiv:1010.4960 (2010).

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