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Some geometric inequalities related to Liouville equation

Analysis of PDEs 2022-08-09 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that if uu is a solution to the Liouville equation \begin{align} \label{scalliouville} \Delta u+e^{2u} =0 \quad \mbox{in R2\mathbb{R}^2,} \end{align}then the diameter of R2\mathbb{R}^2 under the conformal metric g=e2uδg=e^{2u}\delta is bounded below by π\pi. Here δ\delta is the Euclidean metric in R2\mathbb{R}^2. Moreover, we explicitly construct a family of solutions such that the corresponding diameters of R2\mathbb{R}^2 range over [π,2π)[\pi,2\pi). We also discuss supersolutions. We show that if uu is a supersolution and R2e2udx<\int_{\mathbb{R}^2} e^{2u} dx<\infty, then the diameter of R2\mathbb{R}^2 under the metric e2uδe^{2u}\delta is less than or equal to 2π2\pi. For radial supersolutions, we use both analytical and geometric approaches to prove some inequalities involving conformal lengths and areas of disks in R2\mathbb{R}^2. We also discuss the connection of the above results with the sphere covering inequality in the case of Gaussian curvature bounded below by 11. Higher dimensional generalizations are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2208.03612,
  title  = {Some geometric inequalities related to Liouville equation},
  author = {Changfeng Gui and Qinfeng Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03612},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

This article was written in 2020 and still under review. We forgot to post it to arXiv. Later several experts learned about our results and have inquired us about the paper, so we now post it here