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This note intends to demonstrate how to discuss scalar curvature functions' admissibility on bundles by directly applying some of the Kazdan--Warner results. Proofs of the concept include determining which functions are realizable as scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Leonardo Francisco Cavenaghi , Llohann Dallagnol Sperança

Prescribing, by conformal transformation, the kth-elementary symmetric polynomial of the Schouten tensor $P$ to be constant is a generalisation of the Yamabe problem. On compact Riemannian n-manifolds we show that, for k between and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas P. Branson , A. Rod Gover

We study the problem of deforming a Riemannian metric to a conformal one with nonzero constant scalar curvature and nonzero constant boundary mean curvature on a compact manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$. We prove the existence of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Xuezhang Chen , Liming Sun

On a compact surface, we prove existence and uniqueness of the conformal metric whose curvature is prescribed by a negative function away from finitely many points where the metric has prescribed angles presenting cusps or conical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Jingyi Chen , Yuxiang Li , Yunqing Wu

Let $(M, g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary $\partial M$. Given a function $f$ on $\partial M$, we consider the problem of finding a conformal metric of $g$ with zero scalar curvature in $M$ and prescribed mean curvature $f$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jiashu Shen , Hongyi Sheng

On a compact manifold $M$ with boundary $\partial M$, we study the problem of prescribing the scalar curvature in $M$ and the mean curvature on the boundary $\partial M$ simultaneously. To do this, we introduce the notion of singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-28 Pak Tung Ho , Yen-Chang Huang

We study the prescribed scalar curvature problem, namely finding which function can be obtained as the scalar curvature of a metric in a given conformal class. We deal with the case of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds and restrict…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Romain Gicquaud

We consider the problem of finding a metric in a given conformal class with prescribed nonpositive scalar curvature and nonpositive boundary mean curvature on a compact manifold with boundary, and establish a necessary and sufficient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Vladmir Sicca , Gantumur Tsogtgerel

For an embedded conformal hypersurface with boundary, we construct critical order local invariants and their canonically associated differential operators. These are obtained holographically in a construction that uses a singular Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Cesar Arias , A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

In this paper, we investigate a boundary case of the classical prescribed curvature problem. We focus on prescribing the scalar curvature function K and the boundary mean curvature H on the standard ball. Our analysis extendes previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Luca Battaglia , Yixing Pu

We employ three different methods to prove the following result on prescribed scalar curvature plus mean curvature problem: Let $(M^n,g_0)$ be a $n$-dimensional smooth compact manifold with boundary, where $n \geq 3$, assume the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Xuezhang Chen , Pak Tung Ho , Liming Sun

On an even conformal manifold $(M,c)$, such that the critical GJMS operator has non-trivial kernel, we identify and discuss the role of a finite dimensional vector space $N(Q)$ of functions determined by the conformal structure. Using these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-03 A. Rod Gover

In this paper, we consider the problem of prescribing scalar curvature on n-sphere. Assume that the candidate curvature function $f$, which is allowed to change sign, satisfies some kind of Morse index or symmetry condition. By studying the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Hong Zhang

We study the problem of conformally deforming a metric to a prescribed symmetric function of the eigenvalues of the Ricci tensor. We prove an existence theorem for a wide class of symmetric functions on manifolds with positive Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Matthew Gursky , Jeff Viaclovsky

Motivated by recent progress on a spinorial analogue of the Yamabe problem in the geometric literature, we study a conformally invariant spinor field equation on the $m$-sphere, $m\geq2$. Via variational methods and the spinorial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Tian Xu

Given a smooth compact manifold with boundary, we study variational properties of the volume functional and of the area functional of the boundary, restricted to the space of the Riemannian metrics with prescribed curvature. We obtain a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Tiarlos Cruz , Almir Silva Santos

Prescribing conformally the scalar curvature on a closed manifold with negative Yamabe invariant as a given function $K$ is possible under smallness assumptions on $K_{+}=\max\{K,0\}$ and in particular, when $K<0$. In addition, while…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Martin Mayer , Chaona Zhu

In this paper we study the problem of prescribing the $\bar Q^{\prime}$-curvature on pseudo-Einstein CR 3-manifolds. In the first stage we study the problem in the compact setting and we show that under natural assumptions, one can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Ali Maalaoui

We study conformal invariants that arise from functions in the nullspace of conformally covariant differential operators. The invariants include nodal sets and the topology of nodal domains of eigenfunctions in the kernel of GJMS operators.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Yaiza Canzani , A. Rod Gover , Dmitry Jakobson , Raphaël Ponge

In this paper, we establish the existence of conformal deformations that uniformize fourth order curvature on 4-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with positive conformal invariants. Specifically, we prove that any closed, compact Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Sanghoon Lee