Lower bounds for warping functions on warped-product AHE manifolds

Abstract

Let $[\gamma]$ be the conformal boundary of a warped product $C^{3,\alpha}$ AHE metric $g=g_M+u^2h$ on $N=M \times F$, where $(F,h)$ is compact with unit volume and nonpositive curvature. We show that if $[\gamma]$ has positive Yamabe constant, then $u$ has a positive lower bound that depends only on $[\gamma]$.