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Conformal metrics on $\R^{2m}$ with constant Q-curvature

Analysis of PDEs 2009-04-02 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study the conformal metrics on R2m\R^{2m} with constant Q-curvature QQ having finite volume, particularly in the case Q0Q\leq 0. We show that when Q<0Q<0 such metrics exist in R2m\R^{2m} if and only if m>1m>1. Moreover we study their asymptotic behavior at infinity, in analogy with the case Q>0Q>0, which we treated in a recent paper. When Q=0, we show that such metrics have the form e2pgR2me^{2p}g_{\R^{2m}}, where pp is a polynomial such that 2degp2m22\leq \deg p\leq 2m-2 and supR2mp<+\sup_{\R^{2m}}p<+\infty. In dimension 4, such metrics are exactly the polynomials pp of degree 2 with limx+p(x)=\lim_{|x|\to+\infty}p(x)=-\infty.

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@article{arxiv.0805.0749,
  title  = {Conformal metrics on $\R^{2m}$ with constant Q-curvature},
  author = {Luca Martinazzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0749},
  year   = {2009}
}

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