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In this work we study an inverse problem for the minimal surface equation on a Riemannian manifold $(\mathbb{R}^{n},g)$ where the metric is of the form $g(x)=c(x)(\hat{g}\oplus e)$. Here $\hat{g}$ is a simple Riemannian metric on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Janne Nurminen

We classify all smooth flat Riemannian metrics on the two-dimensional plane. In the complete case, it is well-known that these metrics are isometric to the Euclidean metric. In the incomplete case, there is an abundance of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Vincent E. Coll, , Lee B. Whitt

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

The Gaussian curvature of a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold is uniquely determined by the choice of the metric. The formulas for computing the curvature in terms of components of the metric, in isothermal coordinates, involve the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Haakan Hedenmalm , Yolanda Perdomo

Using variations of Riemannian metric that preserve a given Riemannian submersion, keep its fibers totally geodesic and the metric restricted to the fibers fixed, but change the horizontal distribution, we examine changes of sectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Tomasz Zawadzki

We study conformal metrics with prescribed Gaussian curvature on surfaces with conical singularities and geodesic boundary in supercritical regimes. Exploiting a variational argument, we derive a general existence result for surfaces with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Luca Battaglia , Aleks Jevnikar , Zhi-An Wang , Wen Yang

Conformal geodesics are distinguished curves on a conformal manifold, loosely analogous to geodesics of Riemannian geometry. One definition of them is as solutions to a third order differential equation determined by the conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Joel Fine , Yannick Herfray

In this paper we consider the prescribed Gauduchon scalar curvature problem on almost Hermitian manifolds. By deducing the expression of the Gauduchon scalar curvature under the conformal variation, the problem is reduced to solve a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Yuxuan Li , Wubin Zhou , Xianchao Zhou

In this work, we study various properties of embedded hypersurfaces in $1+1+2$ decomposed spacetimes with a preferred spatial direction, denoted $e^{\mu}$, which are orthogonal to the fluid flow velocity of the spacetime and admit a proper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Abbas M. Sherif , Peter K. S. Dunsby

Using variational considerations, we establish that there exists a new symmetric trace-free tensor conformal invariant of hypersurfaces embeddings in even dimensional conformal manifolds. This conformal invariant completes the family of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Samuel Blitz , A. Rod Gover

We solve explicitly the geodesic equation for a wide class of (pseudo)-Riemannian homogeneous manifolds (G/H,m), including those with G compact, as well as non-compact semisimple Lie groups, under a simple algebraic condition for the metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

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

In this article, we give results of prescribing scalar and mean curvature functions for metrics either pointwise conformal or conformally equivalent to a Riemannian metric that is equipped on a compact manifold with boundary, with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Jie Xu

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Rafael López-Soriano , Francisco J. Reyes-Sánchez , David Ruiz

We establish an extension of Liouville's classical representation theorem for solutions of the partial differential equation $\Delta u=4 e^{2u}$ and combine this result with methods from nonlinear elliptic PDE to construct holomorphic maps…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Daniela Kraus , Oliver Roth

In this article we study a class of prescribed curvature problems on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds. To be precise, we derive local $C^0$-estimate under an asymptotic condition which is in effect optimal, and prove the existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Rirong Yuan

For a given smooth compact manifold $M$, we introduce an open class $\mathcal G(M)$ of Riemannian metrics, which we call \emph{metrics of the gradient type}. For such metrics $g$, the geodesic flow $v^g$ on the spherical tangent bundle $SM…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Gabriel Katz

In this paper we consider the problem of prescribing the Gaussian and geodesic curvature on a disk and its boundary, respectively, via a conformal change of the metric. This leads us to a Liouville-type equation with a nonlinear Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 S. Cruz-Blázquez , D. Ruiz

Here we treat the problem: given a torsion-free connection do its geodesics, as unparametrised curves, coincide with the geodesics of an Einstein metric? We find projective invariants such that the vanishing of these is necessary for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-01 A. Rod Gover , Heather Macbeth

We establish the existence of infinitely many complete metrics with constant scalar curvature on prescribed conformal classes on certain noncompact product manifolds. These include products of closed manifolds with constant positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Renato G. Bettiol , Paolo Piccione