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Uniqueness of solutions to some classes of anisotropic and isotropic curvature problems

Differential Geometry 2023-09-28 v2 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we apply various methods to establish the uniqueness of solutions to some classes of anisotropic and isotropic curvature problems. Firstly, by employing integral formulas derived by S. S. Chern \cite{Ch59}, we obtain the uniqueness of smooth admissible solutions to a class of Orlicz-(Christoffel)-Minkowski problems. Secondly, inspired by Simon's uniqueness result \cite{Si67}, we then prove that the only smooth strictly convex solution to the following isotropic curvature problem \begin{equation}\label{ab-1} \left(\frac{P_k(W)}{P_l(W)}\right)^{\frac{1}{k-l}}=\psi(u,r)\quad \text{on}\ \mathbb{S}^n \end{equation} must be an origin-centred sphere, where W=(2u+ug0)W=(\nabla^2 u+u g_0), 1ψ0,2ψ0\partial_1\psi\ge 0,\partial_2\psi\ge 0 and at least one of these inequalities is strict. As an application, we establish the uniqueness of solutions to the isotropic Gaussian-Minkowski problem. Finally, we derive the uniqueness result for the following isotropic LpL_p dual Minkowski problem \begin{equation}\label{ab-2} u^{1-p} r^{q-n-1}\det(W)=1\quad \text{on}\ \mathbb{S}^n, \end{equation} where n1<p1-n-1<p\le -1 and n+1qn+12+14(1+p)(n+1+p)n(n+2)n+1\le q\le n+\frac{1}{2}+\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}-\frac{(1+p)(n+1+p)}{n(n+2)}}. This result utilizes the method developed by Ivaki and Milman \cite{IM23} and generalizes a result due to Brendle, Choi and Daskalopoulos \cite{BCD17}.

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@article{arxiv.2309.14194,
  title  = {Uniqueness of solutions to some classes of anisotropic and isotropic curvature problems},
  author = {Haizhong Li and Yao Wan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.14194},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Revised version (28 pages), Theorem 1.6 improved