On Compact Quasi-Einstein Metrics of Constant Scalar Curvature

Abstract

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 K\"ahler-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 K\"ahler-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.