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In this work, we study the Yamabe flow corresponding to the prescribed scalar curvature problem on compact Riemannian manifolds with negative scalar curvature. The long time existence and convergence of the flow are proved under appropriate…

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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 $f$…

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This paper deals with the question of prescribing the Gaussian curvature on a disk and the geodesic curvature of its boundary by means of a conformal deformation of the metric. We restrict ourselves to a symmetric setting in which the…

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This paper concerns the existence of critical points for solutions to second order elliptic equations of the form $\nabla\cdot \sigma(x)\nabla u=0$ posed on a bounded domain $X$ with prescribed boundary conditions. In spatial dimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Giovanni S. Alberti , Guillaume Bal , Michele Di Cristo

We study the resonant prescribed T-curvature problem on a compact 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary. We derive sharp energy and gradient estimates of the associated Euler-Lagrange functional to characterize the critical points…

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We consider the problem of conformally deforming a metric to one with a prescribed symmetric function of the eigenvalues of the Ricci tensor, in the case of negative curvature.

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We study the problem of prescribing the Gaussian curvature on the disk and the geodesic curvature on its boundary via a conformal change of the metric. In this paper the case of negative Gaussian curvature is treated, a regime for which the…

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Given a 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold (M,g), we investigate the existence of positive solutions of singularly perturbed Klein-Gordon-Maxwell systems and Schroedinger-Maxwell systems on M, with a subcritical nonlinearity. We prove that…

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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

On a given closed connected manifold of dimension two, or greater, we consider the squared $L^2$-norm of the scalar curvature functional over the space of constant volume Riemannian metrics. We prove that its critical points have constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Santiago R Simanca

In this paper, we investigate the problem of prescribing Chern scalar curvatures on complete noncompact Hermitian manifolds with nonpositive curvatures, and establish some existence results. In particular, we obtain some sufficient…

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In this paper, we present a unified flow approach to prescribed Chern scalar curvature problem on compact Hermitian manifolds with negative Gauduchon degree. When the conformal class of its Hermitian metric contains a balanced metric, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Weike Yu

We give obstructions for a noncompact manifold to admit a complete Riemannian metric with (nonuniformly) positive scalar curvature. We treat both the finite volume and infinite volume cases.

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We study critical Riemannian 4-manifolds with a lower bound on Ricci curvature, but no a priori analytic constraints such as on Sobolev constants. We derive elliptic-type estimates for the local curvature radius, which itself controls…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-16 Brian Weber

Given a compact four-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ with boundary, we study the problem of existence of Riemannian metrics on $M$ conformal to $g$ with prescribed $Q$-curvature in the interior $\mathring{M}$ of $M$, and zero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-14 Mohameden Ahmedou , Sadok Kallel , Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye

We construct solutions of the constraint equation with non constant mean curvature on an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold by the conformal method. Our approach consists in decreasing a certain exponent appearing in the equations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Romain Gicquaud , Anna Sakovich

We consider the prescribed scalar curvature problem on $ {\mathbb{S}}^N $ $$ \Delta_{{\mathbb S}^N} v-\frac{N(N-2)}{2} v+\tilde{K}(y) v^{\frac{N+2}{N-2}}=0 \quad \mbox{on} \ {\mathbb S}^N, \qquad v >0 \quad \mbox{on} \ {\mathbb S}^N, $$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Lipeng Duan , Monica Musso , Suting Wei

We consider the following fractional prescribed curvature problem $$(-\Delta)^s u= K(y)u^{2^*_s-1},\ \ u>0,\ \ y\in \mathbb{R}^N,\qquad (0.1)$$ where $s\in(0,\frac{1}{2})$ for $N=3$, $s\in(0,1)$ for $N\geqslant4$ and $2^*_s=\frac{2N}{N-2s}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Lixiu Duan , Qing Guo

The problem of prescribing Gaussian curvature on Riemann surface with conical singularity is considered. Let $(\Sigma,\beta)$ be a closed Riemann surface with a divisor $\beta$, and $K_\lambda=K+\lambda$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Yunyan Yang , Xiaobao Zhu