A finiteness theorem for the space of \(L^{p}\) harmonic sections
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A finiteness theorem for the space of \(L^{p}\) harmonic sections
zbMATH Open document ID: 1153.53024
DOI: 10.4171/RMI/531
author: S. Pigola
author: M. Rigoli
author: Alberto G. Setti
published in: Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
publication date: 2008-08-06T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmi/1216247097
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/42368
review text: The authors prove some finite dimensionality results for subspaces of \(L^p\) harmonic sections of Riemannian manifold or Hermitian vector bundles over complete manifolds. Let \((M^n, g)\) be a connected complete Riemannian \(n\)-manifold and \(E\) a Riemannian (Hermitian) vector bundle of rank \(l\) over \(M\). Assume \(a(x) \in C^0(M), A \in {\mathbb R}, H \geq p >0\) with \(p \geq A+1\) and let \(V = V(a, A, p, H)\) be a vector subspace of the space of smooth sections on \(M\) with the following property: Every \(\xi\in V\) has the unique continuation property and the locally-Lipschitz function \(u = | \xi| \) satisfies \[ u(\Delta u + a(x) u) +A | \nabla u| ^2 \geq 0 \quad \text{weakly on}\quad M \] and \[ \int_{B_r} u^{2p} = o(r^2) \quad\text{as}\quad r \to \infty. \] With these assumptions, the authors prove that if there exists a solution \(0 < \varphi \in Lip_{loc}\) of the differential inequality \[ \Delta \varphi + H a(x) \varphi \leq 0\tag{*} \] weakly outside a compact set \(K \subset M\), then the dimension of \(V\) must be finite. The equation \((*)\) is intimately related with the spectral properties of the Schrödinger operator \(\mathcal L_H = -\Delta - H a(x)\). Thus, from the Bochner-Weitzenböck formula, one can deduce a result on finiteness of \(L^p\) harmonic sections. In other words, let \(\Delta_B = - trace(D^2)\) be the rough Laplacian and let \(\Delta_E = \Delta_B + \mathcal R\) for a smooth symmetric endomorphism of \(E\). Denote by \(L^{2p}\mathcal H(E)\) the space of \(L^{2p}\) \(\Delta_E\)-harmonic sections. In particular, let \(\mathcal L_H = - \Delta_E - H \mathcal R_-(x)\), where \(\mathcal R_-(x) = \sup_{| \xi| =1} \langle -\mathcal R \xi, \xi\rangle\). With these notations and assumptions, the authors deduce that if \(\text{Ind}(\mathcal L_h) < \infty\) for some \(H \geq 1\), then \(\dim(L^{2p}\mathcal H (E)) < \infty\) for every \(1 \leq p \leq H\). Applying the same arguments to a holomorphic line bundle over a complete Kähler mani…
reviewed by: Gabjin Yun
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C21
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35J60
zbMATH DE Number: 5307129
zbMATH Keywords: harmonic sections
zbMATH Keywords: holomorphic sections
zbMATH Keywords: Morse index
zbMATH Keywords: Ricci curvature
zbMATH Keywords: Riemannian vector bundle
zbMATH Keywords: Schrödinger operator
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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