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Blow-up phenomena for scalar-flat metrics on manifolds with boundary

Differential Geometry 2011-08-01 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let (M,g) be a compact n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary. This article is concerned with the set of scalar-flat metrics on M which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface. We construct examples of metrics on the unit ball, in dimensions n>=25, for which this set is noncompact. These manifolds have umbilic boundary, but they are not conformally equivalent to the unit ball.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4235,
  title  = {Blow-up phenomena for scalar-flat metrics on manifolds with boundary},
  author = {Sergio Almaraz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4235},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

44 pages. Some typos corrected. This is a more detailed version of a paper accepted to Journal of Differential Equations