The second generalized Yamabe invariant and conformal mean curvature flow on manifolds with boundary

Abstract

In this paper, we define the second generalized Yamabe invariant on manifolds with boundary. We prove some of its properties and study when the invariant is attained by some metric. In another direction, by using the conformal mean curvature flow, we prove a version of the conformal Schwarz lemma for manifolds with boundary.