Uma resposta parcial para a conjectura CPE, estimativas de diâmetro e variedades com energia constante

Abstract

This thesis is divided into four parts. In the first one we study the critical points of the total scalar curvature functional restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature and volume one. We shall prove that under certain suitable integral conditions the critical points of such functional are Einstein manifolds proving this way the critical point equation conjecture in this case. In the second part, we will provide an estimate for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian of a compact manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below by a constant. The estimate we obtain improves the corresponding estimate proved by Li and Yau (1980). In the third part, we are interested in to estimate the diameter of minimal hypersurfaces of the sphere. The estimate we get depends only on the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian of the considered hypersurface. For immersed surfaces on the three dimensional sphere, we obtain an estimate slightly better than the one obtained in the case of higher dimension. In the last part, we introduce the concept of manifolds with constant energy and prove that the sphere and the torus are the only compact surfaces that have constant energy. For higher dimension, the situation is very different sine the product of the sphere with any compact manifold has constant energy. Nevertheless, if we impose a condition over the Ricci curvature it is possible to characterize the sphere also in this case. After that, we apply the informations obtained to the study of hypersurfaces of the sphere proving some rigidity results provided that the hypersurfaces has constant energy.