• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.109-127
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• 2007

We classify complete, locally homogeneous metrics with finite volume on four-dimensional manifolds which are critical points for the squared $L^2-norm$ functionals of either the full Riemannian curvature tensor or the Weyl curvature tensor defined on the space of Riemannian metrics.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.60 no.1
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• pp.171-184
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• 2023

In this paper, we show that a complete translating soliton Σ^m in ℝⁿ for the mean curvature flow is stable with respect to weighted volume functional if Σ satisfies that the L^m norm of the second fundamental form is smaller than an explicit constant that depends only on the dimension of Σ and the Sobolev constant provided in Michael and Simon [12]. Under the same assumption, we also prove that under this upper bound, there is no non-trivial f-harmonic 1-form of L²_f on Σ. With the additional assumption that Σ is contained in an upper half-space with respect to the translating direction then it has only one end.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.193-203
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• 2002

Weyl structure can be viewed as generalizations of Riemannian metrics. We study Weyl structures which are critical points of the squared L$^2$ norm functional of the full curvature tensor, defined on the space of Weyl structures on a compact 4-manifold. We find some relationship between these critical Weyl structures and the critical Riemannian metrics. Then in a search for homogeneous critical structures we study left-invariant metrics on some solv-manifolds and prove that they are not critical.