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Two solutions to Kazdan-Warner's problem on surfaces

Differential Geometry 2020-12-25 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we study the sign-changing Kazdan-Warner's problem on two dimensional closed Riemannian manifold with negative Euler number χ(M)<0\chi(M)<0. We show that once, the direct method on convex sets is used to find a minimizer of the corresponding functional, then there is another solution via a use of the variational method of mountain pass. In conclusion, we show that there are at least two solutions to the Kazdan-Warner's problem on two dimensional Kazdan-Warner equation provided the prescribed function changes signs and with this average negative.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2012.13071,
  title  = {Two solutions to Kazdan-Warner's problem on surfaces},
  author = {Li Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13071},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

9 pages, submiited to PAMS

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