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We discuss the constant $\sigma_{2}$ problem for conic 4-spheres. Based on earlier works of Chang-Han-Yang and Han-Li-Teixeira, we are able to find a necessary condition for the existence problem. In particular, when the condition is sharp,…

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The study of the $k$-th elementary symmetric function of the Weyl-Schouten curvature tensor of a Riemannian metric, the so called $\sigma_k$ curvature, has produced many fruitful results in conformal geometry in recent years. In these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. -Y. Alice Chang , Zheng-Chao Han , Paul Yang

In this paper we develop a bubble tree structure for a degenerating class of Riemannian metrics satisfying some global conformal bounds on compact manifolds of dimension 4. Applying the bubble tree structure, we establish a gap theorem, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alice Chang , Jie Qing , Paul Yang

By using variational techniques we provide new existence results for Yamabe-type equations with subcritical perturbations set on a compact $d$-dimensional ($d\geq 3$) Riemannian manifold without boundary. As a direct consequence of our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Giovanni Molica Bisci , Luca Vilasi , Dušan D. Repovš

Let $(M^n,g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\ge 3$. Assume $[g]$ is a conformal class for which the Conformal Laplacian $L_g$ has at least two negative eigenvalues. We show the existence of a (generalized) metric that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Matthew J. Gursky , Samuel Pérez-Ayala

Gursky-Streets introduced a formal Riemannian metric on the space of conformal metrics in a fixed conformal class of a compact Riemannian four-manifold in the context of the $\sigma_2$-Yamabe problem. The geodesic equation of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Weiyong He

We consider conformal deformations within a class of incomplete Riemannian metrics which generalize conic orbifold singularities by allowing both warping and any compact manifold (not just quotients of the sphere) to be the "link" of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Thalia Jeffres , Julie Rowlett

Spherical caps play a crucial role in establishing a criterion for the existence of solutions to the Yamabe problem on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, similar to the role played by the standard sphere in the problem on a closed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Mónica Clapp , Benedetta Pellacci , Angela Pistoia

Contact Riemannian manifolds, whose complex structures are not necessarily integrable, are generalization of pseudohermitian manifolds in CR geometry. The Tanaka-Webster-Tanno connection plays the role of the Tanaka-Webster connection of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Feifan Wu , Wei Wang

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$. Under some assumptions, we prove that there exists a positive function $\varphi$ solution of the following Yamabe type equation \Delta \varphi+ h\varphi= \tilde h…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-25 Farid Madani

A conformal metric $g$ with constant curvature one and finite conical singularities on a compact Riemann surface $\Sigma$ can be thought of as the pullback of the standard metric on the 2-sphere by a multi-valued locally univalent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Qing Chen , Wei Wang , Yingyi Wu , Bin Xu

Given a conformally variational scalar Riemannian invariant $I$, we identify a sufficient condition for a compact Riemannian manifold to admit finite regular coverings with many nonhomothetic conformal rescalings with $I$ constant. We also…

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In this paper we study the $\sigma_2$--Yamabe equation, $n>4$, for solutions with a prescribed singular set $\Lambda$ given by a disjoint union of closed submanifolds whose dimension is positive and strictly less than $(n-\sqrt{n}-2)/2$.…

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We prove nonuniqueness results for complete metrics with constant positive fractional curvature conformal to the round metric on $S^n \setminus S^k$, using bifurcation techniques. These are singular (positive) solutions to a non-local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Renato G. Bettiol , María del Mar González , Ali Maalaoui

We consider a $3$-dimensional differentiable manifold with two circulant structures -- a Riemannian metric and an additional structure, whose third power is the identity. The structure is compatible with the metric such that an isometry is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Georgi Dzhelepov

A Riemannian manifold is called geometrically formal if the wedge product of harmonic forms is again harmonic, which implies in the compact case that the manifold is topologically formal in the sense of rational homotopy theory. A manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-24 Manuel Amann , Wolfgang Ziller

The Yamabe problem in compact closed Riemannian manifolds is concerned with finding a metric with constant scalar curvature in the conformal class of a given metric. This problem was solved by the combined work of Yamabe, Trudinger, Aubin,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Jhovanny Muñoz Posso

We prove that the problem of constructing biharmonic conformal maps on a $4$-dimensional Einstein manifold reduces to a Yamabe-type equation. This allows us to construct an infinite family of examples on the Euclidean 4-sphere. In addition,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-12 Paul Baird , Ye-Lin Ou

In this paper we give bounds for the first eigenvalue of the conformal Laplacian and the Yamabe invariant of a compact Riemannian manifold, by using conditions on the Ricci curvature and the diameter and deduce certain conditions on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-23 Salem Eljazi , Najoua Gamara , Habiba Guemri

We study an optimal control problem associated to the conformal Laplacian obstacle problem on closed n-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with n >2. When the Yamabe invariant of the Riemannian manifold is positive, we show that the optimal…

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