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We consider the case with boundary of the classical Kazdan-Warner problem in dimension greater or equal than three, i.e. the prescription of scalar and boundary mean curvatures via conformal deformations of the metric. We deal in particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-12 S. Cruz-Blázquez , A. Malchiodi , D. Ruiz

We construct a one-parameter family of solutions to the positive singular Q-curvature problem on compact nondegenerate manifolds of dimension bigger than four with finitely many punctures. If the dimension is at least eight we assume that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-11 João Henrique Andrade , Rayssa Caju , João Marcos do Ó , Jesse Ratzkin , Almir Silva Santos

In this paper we study the problem of prescribing a fourth order conformal invariant (the Paneitz curvature) on the $n$-sphere, with $n\geq 5$. Using tools from the theory of critical points at infinity, we provide some topological…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mohamed Ben Ayed , Khalil El Mehdi

Let $(M,\,g)$ be a Poincar$\acute{\text{e}}$-Einstein manifold with a smooth defining function. In this note, we prove that there are infinitely many asymptotically hyperbolic metrics with constant $Q$-curvature in the conformal class of an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Gang Li

In this paper, we study the prescribed $Q$-curvature problem on closed four-dimensional Riemannian manifolds when the total integral of the $Q$-curvature is a positive integer multiple of the one of the four-dimensional round sphere. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye , Mohameden Ould Ahmedou

Let $(M,g_0)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $n \geq 25$ with positive Yamabe invariant $Y(M,g_0)>0$ and positive fourth-order invariant $Y_4(M,g_0)>0$. We show that, arbitrarily $C^1$-close to $g_0$, there exists a Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Rayssa Caju , Almir Silva Santos

On a $2m$-dimensional closed manifold we investigate the existence of prescribed $Q$-curvature metrics with conical singularities. We present here a general existence and multiplicity result in the supercritical regime. To this end, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Aleks Jevnikar , Yannick Sire , Wen Yang

In this paper, we address the problem of prescribing non-constant $Q$ and boundary $T$ curvatures on the upper hemisphere $\mathbb{S}^4_+\subset \mathbb{R}^5$, via a conformal change of the background metric. This is equivalent to solve a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Sergio Cruz-Blázquez , Azahara DelaTorre

In this article, we first show that for all compact Riemannian manifolds with non-empty smooth boundary and dimension at least 3, there exists a metric, pointwise conformal to the original metric, with constant scalar curvature in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Jie Xu

This paper contains bounds for the distortion in the spherical metric, that is to say bounds for the constant of Holder continuity of mappings f : (\Rn,q) -> (\Rn, q) where q denotes the spherical metric. The mappings considered are…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter A. Hasto

We prove that closed manifolds admitting a generic metric whose sectional curvature is locally quasi-constant are graphs of space forms. In the more general setting of QC spaces where sets of isotropic points are arbitrary, under suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-08 Louis Funar

A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence and uniqueness of a conformal metric on 2-sphere of constant curvature 1 and with three conical singularities of prescribed order is given.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Masaaki Umehara , Kotaro Yamada

In this note, we study Q-curvature flow on $S^4$ with indefinite nonlinearity. Our result is that the prescribed Q-curvature problem on $S^4$ has a solution provided the prescribed Q-curvature $f$ has its positive part, which possesses…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-30 Li Ma

In this paper we derive a refined asymptotic expansion, near an isolated singularity, for conformally flat metrics with constant positive Q-curvature and positive scalar curvature. The condition that the metric has constant Q-curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Jesse Ratzkin

We provide a complete resolution to the question of compactness for the full solution sets of the fourth-order and sixth-order constant $Q$-curvature problems on smooth closed Riemannian manifolds not conformally diffeomorphic to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Liuwei Gong , Seunghyeok Kim , Juncheng Wei

In this paper, we consider the problem when a differential equation y"(z)=Q(z)y(z) is Fuchsian on H* and apparent on H, where Q(z) is a meromorphic modular form of weight 4 on SL(2,Z) and H denotes the complex upper half-plane. Such a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jia-Wei Guo , Chang-Shou Lin , Yifan Yang

We consider the conformal class of the Riemannian product $g_0 + g$, where $g_0$ is the constant curvature metric on $S^m$ and $g$ is a metric of constant scalar curvature on some closed manifold. We show that the number of metrics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-24 Jimmy Petean

QCD in $d=4-2\epsilon$ space-time dimensions possesses a nontrivial critical point. Scale invariance usually implies conformal symmetry so that there are good reasons to expect that QCD at the critical point restricted to the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 V. M. Braun , A. N. Manashov , S. Moch , M. Strohmaier

We study compactness for nonnegative solutions of the fourth order constant $Q$-curvature equations on smooth compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension $\ge 5$. If the $Q$-curvature equals $-1$, we prove that all solutions are universally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-16 YanYan Li , Jingang Xiong

In this paper, we focus our study on the ends of a locally conformally flat complete manifold with finite total $Q$-curvature. We prove that for such a manifold, the integral of the $Q$-curvature equals an integral multiple of a dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Zhiqin Lu , Yi Wang