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Q-curvature flow with indefinite nonlinearity

Differential Geometry 2008-09-30 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this note, we study Q-curvature flow on S4S^4 with indefinite nonlinearity. Our result is that the prescribed Q-curvature problem on S4S^4 has a solution provided the prescribed Q-curvature ff has its positive part, which possesses non-degenerate critical points such that ΔS4f0\Delta_{S^4} f\not=0 at the saddle points and an extra condition such as a nontrivial degree counting condition.

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@article{arxiv.0809.4826,
  title  = {Q-curvature flow with indefinite nonlinearity},
  author = {Li Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4826},
  year   = {2008}
}

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7 pages

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