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A flow approach to the prescribed Gaussian curvature problem in $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$

Differential Geometry 2022-03-29 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we study the following prescribed Gaussian curvature problem K=f~(θ)ϕ(ρ)α2ϕ(ρ)2+ˉρ2,K=\frac{\tilde{f}(\theta)}{\phi(\rho)^{\alpha-2}\sqrt{\phi(\rho)^2+|\bar{\nabla}\rho|^2}}, a generalization of the Alexandrov problem (α=n+1\alpha=n+1) in hyperbolic space, where f~\tilde{f} is a smooth positive function on Sn\mathbb{S}^{n}, ρ\rho is the radial function of the hypersurface, ϕ(ρ)=sinhρ\phi(\rho)=\sinh\rho and KK is the Gauss curvature. By a flow approach, we obtain the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the above equations when αn+1\alpha\geq n+1. Our argument provides a parabolic proof in smooth category for the Alexandrov problem in Hn+1\mathbb{H}^{n+1}. We also consider the cases 2<αn+12<\alpha\leq n+1 under the evenness assumption of f~\tilde{f} and prove the existence of solutions to the above equations.

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@article{arxiv.2203.14594,
  title  = {A flow approach to the prescribed Gaussian curvature problem in $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$},
  author = {Haizhong Li and Ruijia Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14594},
  year   = {2022}
}

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