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Liouville equations on complete surfaces with nonnegative Gauss curvature

Analysis of PDEs 2024-11-27 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study finite total curvature solutions of the Liouville equation Δu+e2u=0\Delta u+e^{2u}=0 on a complete surface (M,g)(M,g) with nonnegative Gauss curvature. It turns out that the asymptotic behavior of the solution separates two extremal cases: on the one end, if the solution decays not too fast, then (M,g)(M,g) must be isometric to the standard Euclidean plane; on the other end, if (M,g)(M,g) is isometric to the flat cylinder S1×R\mathbb{S}^1\times \mathbb{R}, then solutions must decay linearly and are completely classified.

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@article{arxiv.2309.01956,
  title  = {Liouville equations on complete surfaces with nonnegative Gauss curvature},
  author = {Xiaohan Cai and Mijia Lai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.01956},
  year   = {2024}
}