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Radial prescribing scalar curvature on $RP^n$

Differential Geometry 2015-03-12 v1

Abstract

The study of radial prescribing scalar curvature of X.Xu and P.C.Yang [2] in 1993 showed a nonexistence result on S2S^2. Later in 1995, W.Chen and C.Li [2] generalized the nonexistence result to higher dimensions. G.Bianchi and E.Egnell [1] suggested that there may exist some non-negative smooth radial function which cannot be scalar curvature in the standard conformal class of RPn.RP^n. However, in our paper, we prove that all smooth radial non-negative smooth functions which are positive on the pole could be prescribing scalar curvatures. We consider the quotient vλVλ\frac{v_\lambda}{V_\lambda} rather than the difference vλVλv_\lambda-V_\lambda as in [1]. This trick yields a concise argument of the existence. Consequently, their counter examples stated in [1] cannot be true on RPn.RP^n.

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@article{arxiv.1503.03140,
  title  = {Radial prescribing scalar curvature on $RP^n$},
  author = {Liu Hong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03140},
  year   = {2015}
}