Warped product manifolds provide a natural extension of classical space forms and arise widely in differential geometry, comparison geometry, and mathematical relativity. This talk begins with the basic geometric structure and historical role of warped products, emphasizing their relation to model spaces and conformal geometry. We then study when a warped product can be conformally reduced to a standard product after a suitable diffeomorphism. This leads to a geometric de-warping problem governed by curvature. In dimension two, the obstruction is described by a scalar elliptic equation, while in higher dimensions it becomes an overdetermined tensorial system closely related to conformal rigidity and Obata-type equations. The talk concludes with several questions on exact rigidity, quantitative stability, and critical conformal obstructions.
张伟,伊犁师范大学数学与统计学院讲师,博士毕业于东北师范大学数学与统计学院。主要研究领域是微分几何与奇点理论,在Lorentz-Minkowski空间中的微分几何与奇点理论、几何PDEs等方面取得若干研究成果,论文发表在Geometriae Dedicata、Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys .等期刊。