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- From: lee@math.washington.edu (John M. Lee)
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- Subject: Re: Negatively curved conformally flat manifolds
- Message-ID: <LEE.92Jul23160705@pythagoras.math.washington.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 00:07:05 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: yang@fields.waterloo.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 12:48:20 GMT
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- In article <BruE8L.AnD@watserv1.waterloo.edu> yang@fields.waterloo.edu (Deane Yang) writes:
-
- Here's an easy sounding question for differential geometers
- that I can't answer off the top of my head:
-
- Is a negatively curved conformally flat manifold necessarily
- isometric or diffeomorphic to a hyperbolic manifold?
-
- Hi Deane--
-
- Here are a couple of simple observations that might be useful.
-
- First, it certainly need not be isometric to a hyperbolic manifold: just
- multiply a hyperbolic metric by a function very close to 1 in the C2 norm,
- and the resulting metric is conformally flat and still negatively curved.
-
- Second, it may not even be conformally diffeomorphic to a hyperbolic
- manifold. An example is the catenoid, which is conformally covered by the
- plane but not by the disk.
-
- I don't know the answer in the diffeomorphism category, but I suspect it
- might not be easy.
-
- Cheers!
-
- Jack Lee
-