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Prescribing curvatures on three dimensional Riemannian manifolds with boundaries

Differential Geometry 2008-10-29 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let (M,g)(M,g) be a complete three dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary M\partial M. Given smooth functions K(x)>0K(x)>0 and c(x)c(x) defined on MM and M\partial M, respectively, it is natural to ask whether there exist metrics conformal to gg so that under these new metrics, KK is the scalar curvature and cc is the boundary mean curvature. All such metrics can be described by a prescribing curvature equation with a boundary condition. With suitable assumptions on KK,cc and (M,g)(M,g) we show that all the solutions of the equation can only blow up at finite points over each compact subset of Mˉ\bar M, some of them may appear on M\partial M. We describe the asymptotic behavior of the blowup solutions around each blowup point and derive an energy estimate as a consequence.

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@article{arxiv.0810.5027,
  title  = {Prescribing curvatures on three dimensional Riemannian manifolds with boundaries},
  author = {Lei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5027},
  year   = {2008}
}

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21 pages. Transactions of American Mathematical Society, in press