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The Yamabe problem concerns finding a conformal metric on a given closed Riemannian manifold so that it has constant scalar curvature. This paper concerns mainly a fully nonlinear version of the Yamabe problem and the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aobing Li , YanYan Li

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

We give sufficient and "almost" necessary conditions for the prescribed scalar curvature problems within the conformal class of a Riemannian metric $ g $ for both closed manifolds and compact manifolds with boundary, including the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Jie Xu

We give some rigidity theorems for an n$(\geq4)$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold with harmonic Weyl curvature, positive scalar curvature and positive constant $\sigma_2$. Moreover, when $n=4,$ we prove that a 4-dimensional compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Haiping Fu , Huiya He

It was shown by Seaman that if a compact, oriented 4-dimensional riemannian manifold (M, g) of positive sectional curvature admits a harmonic 2-form of constant length, its intersection form is definite and such a harmonic form is unique up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Inyoung Kim

We prove that if an orientable 3-manifold $M$ admits a complete Riemannian metric whose scalar curvature is positive and has a subquadratic decay at infinity, then it decomposes as a (possibly infinite) connected sum of spherical manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Florent Balacheff , Teo Gil Moreno de Mora Sardà , Stéphane Sabourau

We consider the constant Q-curvature metric problem in the given conformal class on conic 4-manifolds and study related differential equations.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Hao Fang , Biao Ma

We present a conformal deformation involving a fully nonlinear equation in dimension 4, starting with positive scalar curvature. Assuming a certain conformal invariant is positive, one may deform from positive scalar curvature to a stronger…

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

We prove that if a compact Riemannian 4-manifold with positive sectional curvature satisfies a Kato type inequality, then it is definite. We also discuss some new insights for compact Riemannian 4-manifolds of positive sectional curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Kefeng Liu , Jianming Wan

We prove the existence of metrics with prescribed $Q$-curvature under natural assumptions on the sign of the prescribing function and the background metric. In the dimension four case, we also obtain existence results for curvature forms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Flávio França Cruz , Tiarlos Cruz

Let $(M, g_0)$ be a closed 4-manifold with positive Yamabe invariant and with $L^2$-small Weyl curvature tensor. Let $g_1 \in [g_0]$ be any metric in the conformal class of $g_0$ whose scalar curvature is $L^2$-close to a constant. We prove…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Xianfu Liu , Zuoqin Wang

We define a new formal Riemannian metric on a conformal classes of four-manifolds in the context of the $\sigma_2$-Yamabe problem. Exploiting this new variational structure we show that solutions are unique unless the manifold is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Matthew J. Gursky , Jeffrey Streets

In this article we reduce the geometric stability conjecture for the scalar torus rigidity theorem to the conformal case via the Yamabe problem. Then we are able to prove the case where a sequence of Riemannian manifolds is conformal to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Brian Allen

Let \((M^n,g)\) be a smooth closed Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n \ge 5\) with positive Yamabe invariant and semi-positive \(Q\)-curvature. We establish a precompactness result in the \(C^{\alpha}\)-H\"older topologie on the space of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Zeinab Mcheik

In this paper, we bend a closed Riemannian manifold in the conformal class, through solving a fully nonlinear equation. As a result, we prove that each metric of quasi-negative Ricci curvature is conformal to a metric with negative Ricci…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Rirong Yuan

One way to generalize the boundary Yamabe problem posed by Escobar is to ask if a given metric on a compact manifold with boundary can be conformally deformed to have vanishing $\sigma_k$-curvature in the interior and constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Jeffrey S. Case , Ana Claudia Moreira , Yi Wang

We consider a $4$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ equip\-ped with a circulant structure $q$, which is an isometry with respect to the metric $g$ and $q^{4}=\id$, $q^{2}\neq \pm \id$. For such a manifold $(M, g, q)$ we obtain some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Iva Dokuzova

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

Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension n. The k-curvature, for k=1,2,..n, is defined as the k-th elementary symmetric polynomial of the eigenvalues of the Schouten tenser. The k-Yamabe problem is to prove the existence of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Weimin Sheng , Neil S Trudinger , Xu-jia Wang

We classify, up to homeomorphisms, the closed simply-connected 4-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric for which averages of pairs of sectional curvatures of orthogonal planes are positive.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Renato G. Bettiol