Bifurcation and Local Rigidity of Homogeneous Solutions to the Yamabe Problem on Aloff-Wallach Spaces

Abstract

We construct 1-parameter families of well-known solutions to the Yamabe problem defined on Aloff-Wallach Spaces to determine bifurcation instants for these homogeneous spaces by examining changes in the Morse index of these metrics as the parameter varies over the positive real numbers. A bifurcation point for such families is an accumulation point of other solutions to the Yamabe problem, while a local rigidity point is an isolated solution of this problem, i.e., it is not a bifurcation point.