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The recent work of Morini-Oronzio-Spadaro and the third author shows that, in three dimensions, a flat-flow solution of the volume-preserving mean curvature flow that converges to a single ball, which is the case for instance when the…

The mixed scalar curvature of a foliated Riemannian manifold, i.e., an averaged mixed sectional curvature, has been considered by several geometers. We explore the Yamabe type problem: to prescribe the constant mixed scalar curvature for a…

We study the Yamabe flow starting from an asymptotically flat manifold $(M^n,g_0)$. We show that the flow converges to an asymptotically flat, scalar flat metric in a weighted global sense if $Y(M,[g_0])>0$, and show that the flow does not…

We consider the unnormalized Yamabe flow on manifolds with conical singularities. Under certain geometric assumption on the initial cross-section we show well posedness of the short time solution in the $L^q$-setting. Moreover, we give a…

Let $(M^m,g_M)$ be a closed, connected manifold with positive scalar curvature and $(T^k,g)$ some flat $k$-Torus of unit volume. By a result of F. Dobarro and E. Lami Dozo, there exists a unique $f: M \rightarrow \mathbf{R}_{>0}$ such that…

Let $X$ be an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold and $M$ its conformal infinity. This paper is devoted to deduce several existence results of the fractional Yamabe problem on $M$ under various geometric assumptions on $X$ and $M$: Firstly,…

Using the fractional discrete Laplace operator for triangle meshes, we introduce a fractional combinatorial Calabi flow for discrete conformal structures on surfaces, which unifies and generalizes Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow for…

This paper studies the combinatorial Yamabe flow on hyperbolic bordered surfaces. We show that the flow exists for all time and converges exponentially fast to conformal factor which produces a hyperbolic surface whose lengths of boundary…

We introduce the weighted Yamabe flow $\frac{\partial g}{\partial t}=(r^m_{\phi}-R^m_{\phi})g$, $\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial t}=\frac{m}{2}(R^m_{\phi}-r^m_{\phi})$ on a smooth metric measure space $(M^n, g, e^{-\phi}{\rm dvol}_g, m)$,…

In this paper, we study the CR Yamabe flow with zero CR Yamabe invariant. We use the CR Poincar\'e inequality and a Gagliardo-Nirenberg type interpolation inequality to show that this flow has long time solution and the solution converges…

This work is a follow-up on the work of the second author with P. Daskalopoulos and J.L. V\'{a}zquez. In this latter work, we introduced the Yamabe flow associated to the so-called fractional curvature and prove some existence result of…

Let g_t be a family of constant scalar curvature metrics on the total space of a Riemannian submersion obtained by shrinking the fibers of an original metric g, so that the submersion collapses as t approaches 0 (i.e., the total space…

In this paper, we investigate the deformation of generalized circle packings on ideally triangulated surfaces with boundary, which is the $(-1,-1,-1)$ type generalized circle packing metric introduced by Guo-Luo \cite{GL2}. To find…

We study the set of volumes of constant scalar curvature one metrics on an atoroidal three-manifold.The infinum of this set is believed to be attained at a hyperbolic metric. We prove that the supremum of this set is always infinity. The…

On a compact three-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove the compactness of the full set of conformal metrics with positive constant scalar curvature and constant mean curvature on the boundary. This involves a blow-up…

In this paper, we study the prescribed $T$-curvature problem on the unit ball $\mathbb{B}^4$ of $\mathbb{R} ^4$ via the $T$-curvature flow approach. By combining Ache-Chang's inequality with the Morse-theoretic approach of Malchiodi-Struwe,…

We introduce a Yamabe-type flow \begin{align*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \frac{\partial g}{\partial t} &=(r^m_{\phi}-R^m_{\phi})g \\ \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial t} &=\frac{m}{2}(R^m_{\phi}-r^m_{\phi}) \end{array} \right. ~~\mbox{ in }M…

Inversive distance circle packings introduced by Bowers-Stephenson are natural generalizations of Thurston's circle packings on surfaces. To find piecewise Euclidean metrics on surfaces with prescribed combinatorial curvatures, we introduce…

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with dimension n > 2. The Yamabe problem is to find a metric with constant scalar curvature in the conformal class of g, by minimizing the total scalar curvature. The proof was completed in 1984.…

We prove existence of Yamabe metrics on four-manifolds possessing finitely-many conical points with $\mathbb{Z}_2$-group, using for the first time a min-max scheme in the singular setting. In our variational argument we need to deform…