• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.61 no.1
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• pp.281-290
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• 2024

We consider the total scalar curvature functional, and show that if the second variation in the transverse traceless tensor direction is negative, then the metric is Einstein. We also find the relation between the second variation and the Lichnerowicz Laplacian.

• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.647-655
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• 2013

We obtain $C^{\infty}$-continuous paths of explicit Riemannian metrics $g_t$, $0{\leq}t$ < ${\varepsilon}$, whose scalar curvatures $s(g_t)$ decrease, where $g_0$ is a flat metric, i.e. a metric with vanishing curvature. Most of them can exist on tori of dimension ${\geq}3$. Some of them yield scalar curvature decrease on a ball in the Euclidean space.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.117-123
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• 2004

It has been conjectured that, on a compact orient able manifold M, a critical point of the total scalar curvature functional restricted the space of unit volume metrics of constant scalar curvature is Einstein. In this paper we show that if a manifold is a 3-dimensional warped product, then (M, g) cannot be a critical point unless it is isometric to the standard sphere.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.641-648
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• 2000

It has been conjectured that, on a compact 3-dimensional manifold, a critical point of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to the space of constant scalar curvature metrics of volume 1 is Einstein. In this paper we find a sufficient condition that a critical point is Einstein. This condition is equivalent for a critical point ot be conformally flat. Its relationship with the Fisher-Marsden conjecture is also discussed.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.587-595
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• 2008

It is well known that critical points of the total scalar curvature functional S on the space of all smooth Riemannian structures of volume 1 on a compact manifold M are exactly the Einstein metrics. When the domain of S is restricted to the space of constant scalar curvature metrics, there has been a conjecture that a critical point is isometric to a standard sphere. In this paper we investigate the relationship between the first Betti number and stable minimal surfaces, and study the analytic properties of stable minimal surfaces in M for n = 3.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.1101-1114
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• 1996

In Riemannian geometry, it is one of the important things to study the topological or geometric invariants of manifolds since they characterize the topology of manifolds.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.269-276
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• 2013

We find an explicit $C^{\infty}$-continuous path of Riemannian metrics $g_t$ on the 4-d hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^4$, for $0{\leq}t{\leq}{\varepsilon}$ for some number ${\varepsilon}$ > 0 with the following property: $g_0$ is the hyperbolic metric on $\mathbb{H}^4$, the scalar curvatures of $g_t$ are strictly decreasing in t in an open ball and $g_t$ is isometric to the hyperbolic metric in the complement of the ball.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.775-779
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• 2005

On a compact n-dimensional manifold $M^n$, a critical point of the total scalar curvature functional, restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature of volume 1, satifies the critical point equation (CPE), given by $Z_g\;=\;s_g^{1\ast}(f)$. It has been conjectured that a solution (g, f) of CPE is Einstein. The purpose of the present paper is to prove that every compact stable minimal hypersurface is in a certain hypersurface of $M^n$ under an assumption that Ker($s_g^{1\ast}{\neq}0$).

• Proceedings of the Korean Statistical Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.31-36
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• 2003

Using a short time expansion of the fundamental solution of heat equation by analysis of Wiener functional with the help of Malliavin calculus, we obtain the asymptotic expansion of the mean distance of Brownian motion on Riemannian manifolds.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.167-178
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• 2010

We discuss the critical points of the functional $F_{\lambda,\mu}(J,g)=\int_M(\lambda\tau+\mu\tau^*)d\upsilon_g$ on the spaces of all almost Hermitian structures AH(M) with $(\lambda,\mu){\in}R^2-(0,0)$, where $\tau$ and $\tau^*$ being the scalar curvature and the *-scalar curvature of (J, g), respectively. We shall give several characterizations of Kahler structure for some special classes of almost Hermitian manifolds, in terms of the critical points of the functionals $F_{\lambda,\mu}(J,g)$ on AH(M). Further, we provide the almost Hermitian analogy of the Hilbert's result.