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Compactness and Non-compactness for the Yamabe Problem on Manifolds With Boundary

Differential Geometry 2017-03-28 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the problem of conformal deformation of Riemannian structure to constant scalar curvature with zero mean curvature on the boundary. We prove compactness for the full set of solutions when the boundary is umbilic and the dimension n24n \leq 24. The Weyl Vanishing Theorem is also established under these hypotheses, and we provide counter-examples to compactness when n25n \geq 25. Lastly, our methods point towards a vanishing theorem for the umbilicity tensor, which is anticipated to be fundamental for a study of the nonumbilic case.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4559,
  title  = {Compactness and Non-compactness for the Yamabe Problem on Manifolds With Boundary},
  author = {Marcelo M. Disconzi and Marcus A. Khuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4559},
  year   = {2017}
}

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