Decompositions of the space of Riemannian metrics on a compact manifold with boundary

Abstract

In this paper, for a compact manifold $M$ with non-empty boundary, we give a Koiso-type decomposition theorem, as well as an Ebin-type slice theorem, for the space of all Riemannian metrics on $M$ endowed with a fixed conformal class on the boundary. As a corollary, we give a characterization of relative Einstein metrics.