BOUNDARY REGULARITY OF CONFORMALLY COMPACT EINSTEIN METRICS

Michael Anderson

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BOUNDARY REGULARITY OF CONFORMALLY COMPACT EINSTEIN METRICS PIOTR T. CHRUSCIEL, ERWANN DELAY, JOHN M. LEE, AND DALE N. SKINNER Abstract. We show that C2 conformally compact Riemannian Einstein metrics have conformal compactifications that are smooth up to the boundary in dimension 3 and all even dimensions, and polyhomogeneous in odd dimensions greater than 3. 1. Introduction SupposeM is a smooth, compact manifold with boundary, and letM denote its interior and ∂M its boundary. (By “smooth,” we always mean C∞.) A Riemannian metric g on M is said to be conformally compact if for some smooth defining function ? for ∂M in M , ?2g extends by continuity to a Riemannian metric (of class at least C0) on M . The rescaled metric g = ?2g is called a conformal compactification of g. If for some (hence any) smooth defining function ?, g is in Ck(M) or Ck,?(M), then we say g is conformally compact of class Ck or Ck,?, respectively. If g is conformally compact, the restriction of g = ?2g to ∂M is a Riemannian metric on ∂M , whose conformal class is determined by g, independently of the choice of defining function ?. This conformal class is called the conformal infinity of g. Several important existence and uniqueness results [1, 2, 5, 9, 13] con- cerning conformally compact Riemannian Einstein metrics have been established recently.

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• compact einstein


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• metrics

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• Anderson
• Graham
• Smooth
• Riemannian manifold
• Équation

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• Publié par: pefav
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• Langue: English

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BOUNDARY REGULARITY OF CONFORMALLY COMPACT EINSTEIN METRICS

´ PIOTR T. CHRUSCIEL, ERWANN DELAY, JOHN M. LEE, AND DALE N. SKINNER

Abstract.We show thatC 2 conformally compact Riemannian Einstein metrics have conformal compactifications that are smooth up to the boundary in dimension 3 and all even dimensions, and polyhomogeneous in odd dimensions greater than 3.

1.Introduction

SupposeMis a smooth, compact manifold with boundary, and letM denote its interior and∂Mits boundary. (By “smooth,” we always mean C ∞  Riemannian metric.) AgonMis said to beconformally compact if for some smooth defining functionρfor∂MinM,ρ 2 gextends by continuity to a Riemannian metric (of class at leastC 0 ) onM. The rescaled metricg=ρ 2 gis called aconformal compactificationofg. If for some (hence any) smooth defining functionρ,gis inC k (M) or C k,λ (M), then we saygis conformally compact of classC k orC k,λ , respectively. Ifgis conformally compact, the restriction ofg=ρ 2 gto∂Mis a Riemannian metric on∂M, whose conformal class is determined byg, independently of the choice of defining functionρ. This conformal class is called theconformal infinityofg. Several important existence and uniqueness results [1, 2, 5, 9, 13] con- cerning conformally compact Riemannian Einstein metrics have been established recently. For many applications to physics and geometry, it turns out to be of great importance to understand the asymptotic behaviour of the resulting metrics near the boundary. This question has been addressed by Michael Anderson [2], who proved that ifgis a 4-dimensional conformally compact Einstein metric with smooth con- formal infinity, then the conformal compactification ofgis smooth up

Date: March 20, 2004. First author partially supported by Polish Research Council grant KBN 2 P03B 073 24; second author partially supported by the ACI program of the French Ministry of Research. 1

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to the boundary in suitable coordinates. It has long been conjectured that in higher dimensions, conformally compact Einstein metrics with smooth conformal infinities should have infinite-order asymptotic expan- sions in terms ofρand logρ. The purpose of this paper is to confirm that conjecture. The choice of special coordinates in Anderson’s result cannot be dis- pensed with. Because the Einstein equation is invariant under diffeo- morphisms, we cannot expect that the conformal compactification of an arbitrary conformally compact Einstein metric will necessarily have optimal regularity for allC ∞ structures onM example, suppose. Forg is an Einstein metric onMwith a smooth conformal compactification, and let Ψ :M→Mbe a homeomorphism that restricts to the iden- tity map of∂Mand to a diffeomorphism fromMto itself. Ψ Then ∗ g will still be Einstein with the same conformal infinity, but its conformal compactificationρ 2 Ψ ∗ g Thusmay no longer be smooth. the best one might hope for is that an arbitrary conformally compact Einstein met- ric can be made smoothly conformally compact after pulling back by an appropriate diffeomorphism. Even this is not true in general, because Fefferman and Graham showed in [7] that there is an obstruction to smoothness in odd dimensions. Since Einstein metrics are always smooth (in fact, real-analytic) in suitable coordinates in the interior, only regularity at the boundary is at issue. For that reason, instead of assuming thatMis compact, we will assume only that it has a compact boundary componentY, and restrict our attention to a collar neighborhood ofYinM, which we may assume without loss of generality is diffeomorphic toY×[01). Throughout this paper, then,Ywill be an arbitrary smooth, connected, compact,n-dimensional manifold without boundary, and we make the following identifications: M=Y×[01) M=Y×(01) ∂M=Y× {0}. Letρ:M→[01) denote the projection onto the [01) factor; it is a smooth defining function for∂MinM. For 0< R <1, we define M R =Y×(0 R] M R =Y×[0 R]. In this context, we extend the definition of conformally compact metrics by saying that a smooth Riemannian metricgonMorM R is confor- mally compact ifρ 2 gextends to a continuous metric onMorM R , respectively. A continuous map Ψ :M R →M(for someR) that re- stricts to the identity map of∂Mand to a (C ∞ ) diffeomorphism from M R its image will be called ato collar diffeomorphism Ψ and its. If