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Prescribing a fourth order conformal invariant on the standard sphere - Part I: a perturbation result

Analysis of PDEs 2007-05-23 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we study some fourth order elliptic equation involving the critical Sobolev exponent, related to the prescription of a fourth order conformal invariant on the standard sphere. We use a topological method to prove the existence of at least a solution when the function to be prescribed is close to a constant and a finite dimensional map associated to it has non-zero degree.

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@article{arxiv.math/0101101,
  title  = {Prescribing a fourth order conformal invariant on the standard sphere - Part I: a perturbation result},
  author = {Zindine Djadli and Andrea Malchiodi and Mohameden Ould Ahmedou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0101101},
  year   = {2007}
}

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27 pages