On the Yamabe invariant of certain compact manifolds with boundary

Abstract

We generalize Kobayashi's connected-sum inequality to the $\lambda$-Yamabe invariants. As an application, we calculate the $\lambda$-Yamabe invariants of $\#m_1{\mathbb{RP}}^n\#m_2({\mathbb{RP}}^{n-1}\times S^1)\#l{H}^n\#k{S}_{+}^n$, for any $\lambda \in [0,1]$, $n\ge 3$, provided $k+l\ge 1$. As a corollary, we prove that ${\mathbb{RP}}^n$ minus finitely many disjoint $n$-balls have the same $\lambda$-Yamabe invariants as the hemi-sphere, which forms an interesting contrast with the famous Bray-Neves results on the Yamabe invariants of ${\mathbb{RP}}^3$.

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