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In mathematics, in the field of differential geometry, the Yamabe invariant (also referred to as the sigma constant) is a real number invariant associated to a smooth manifold that is preserved under diffeomorphisms. It was first written down independently by O. Kobayashi and R. Schoen and takes its name from H. Yamabe. == Definition == Let be a compact smooth manifold (without boundary) of dimension . The normalized Einstein–Hilbert functional assigns to each Riemannian metric on a real number as follows: : where is the scalar curvature of and is the volume density associated to the metric . The exponent in the denominator is chosen so that the functional is scale-invariant: for every positive real constant , it satisfies . We may think of as measuring the average scalar curvature of over . It was conjectured by Yamabe that every conformal class of metrics contains a metric of constant scalar curvature (the so-called Yamabe problem); it was proven by Yamabe, Trudinger, Aubin, and Schoen that a minimum value of is attained in each conformal class of metrics, and in particular this minimum is achieved by a metric of constant scalar curvature. We define : where the infimum is taken over the smooth real-valued functions on . This infimum is finite (not ): Hölder's inequality implies . The number is sometimes called the conformal Yamabe energy of (and is constant on conformal classes). A comparison argument due to Aubin shows that for any metric , is bounded above by , where is the standard metric on the -sphere . It follows that if we define : where the supremum is taken over all metrics on , then (and is in particular finite). The real number is called the Yamabe invariant of . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yamabe invariant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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