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Kazdan-Warner obstructions for a 4$th-$order boundary problem

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-25 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We derive Kazdan-Warner type identities for the boundary problem of prescribing nonconstant interior QQ curvature and boundary TT curvature on the upper hemisphere S+4\mathbb{S}^4_+ by a conformal change of the standard metric. Using the natural variational formulation and conformal variations generated by boundary-preserving conformal vector fields, we obtain nontrivial integral obstructions to solvability.

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@article{arxiv.2603.22464,
  title  = {Kazdan-Warner obstructions for a 4$th-$order boundary problem},
  author = {Sergio Cruz-Blázquez and Azahara DelaTorre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.22464},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages