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On Compact Quasi-Einstein Metrics of Constant Scalar Curvature

Eric Cochran
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We show that all compact quasi-Einstein metrics of constant scalar curvature in dimension three are locally homogeneous. We accomplish this by using the equivalence of constant scalar curvature quasi-Einstein metrics $(M,g,X)$ and quasi-Einstein metrics with $X$ Killing in the compact case to make a connection to Sasakian geometry in dimension three. In higher dimensions, there are examples which are non-locally homogeneous with constant scalar curvature. Such examples were constructed by Kunduri-Lucietti as circle bundles over a compact Kähler-Einstein base. We then ask when compact quasi-Einstein metrics of constant scalar curvature can be constructed as circle bundles over Einstein metrics, and prove that the base must in fact be Kähler-Einstein, assuming a conjecture due to Goldberg. These spaces, in fact, admit one parameter families of quasi-Einstein metrics by considering the canonical variation, which we study further.

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Eric Cochran. 2025-12-23. On Compact Quasi-Einstein Metrics of Constant Scalar Curvature. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21892

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