Related papers: A sharp Sobolev inequality on Riemannian manifolds

Let M be a complete n-dimensional Riemannian manifold, if the sobolev inqualities hold on M, then the geodesic ball has maximal volume growth; if the Ricci curvature of M is nonnegative, and one of the general Sobolev inequalities holds on…

Given a Riemannian compact manifold (M,g) of dimension n>4, we have proven in [1] under some conditions that the equation : Pg(u) = Bu +Au2+Cu (1) where Pg is the GJMS-operator, n = dim(M) > 2k, A, B and C are smooth positive functions on…

Given a connected Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{N}$, an \(m\)--dimensional Riemannian manifold $\mathcal{M}$ which is either compact or the Euclidean space, $p\in [1, +\infty)$ and $s\in (0,1]$, we establish, for the problems of…

We show that an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with $n$-nonnegative or $n$-nonpositive curvature operator of the second kind has restricted holonomy $SO(n)$ or is flat. The result does not depend on completeness and can be improved…

For a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with boundary $\partial M$, the Diri\-chl\-et-to-Neumann operator $\Lambda_g:C^\infty(\partial M)\longrightarrow C^\infty(\partial M)$ is defined by $\Lambda_gf=\left.\frac{\partial…

We study coarea inequalities for metric surfaces -- metric spaces that are topological surfaces, without boundary, and which have locally finite Hausdorff 2-measure $\mathcal{H}^2$. For monotone Sobolev functions $u\colon X \to \mathbb{R}…

Let $(M^m,g)$ be an $m$-dimensional closed Riemannian manifold with non-negative sectional curvatures, $m\ge 3$. We define a conformal invariant and prove that, if the conformal invariant is bounded from above by a constant depending only…

For metric measure spaces verifying the reduced curvature-dimension condition $CD^*(K,N)$ we prove a series of sharp functional inequalities under the additional assumption of essentially non-branching. Examples of spaces entering this…

Motivated by the prescribing scalar curvature problem, we study the equation $\Delta_g u +Ku^p=0 (1+\zeta \leq p \leq \frac{n+2}{n-2})$ on locally conformally flat manifolds $(M,g)$ with $R(g)=0$. We prove that when $K$ satisfies certain…

In this paper, we focus on the geometry of compact conformally flat manifolds $(M^n,g)$ with positive scalar curvature. Schoen-Yau proved that its universal cover $(\widetilde{M^n},\tilde{g})$ is conformally embedded in $\mathbb{S}^n$ such…

Let $(M,g)$ be a noncompact complete $n$-manifold with harmonic curvature and positive Sobolev constant. Assume that $L_2$ norms of Weyl curvature and traceless Ricci curvature are finite. We prove that $(M,g)$ is Einstein if $n \ge 5$ and…

Let $M$ be a complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold with negative curvature. We obtain some Moser-Trudinger inequalities with sharp constants on $M$.

We show that the positive mass theorem holds for continuous Riemannian metrics that lie in the Sobolev space $W^{2, n/2}_{loc}$ for manifolds of dimension less than or equal to $7$ or spin-manifolds of any dimension. More generally, we give…

In the Riemannian setting, every flat Cartan--Hadamard manifold is isometric to Euclidean space, the canonical model that underlies the theory of Sobolev spaces and guarantees the sharpness/rigidity of the Hardy inequality, the uncertainty…

Consider the Poincar\'e-Sobolev inequality on the hyperbolic space: for every $n \geq 3$ and $1 < p \leq \frac{n+2}{n-2},$ there exists a best constant $S_{n,p, \lambda}(\mathbb{B}^{n})>0$ such that $$S_{n, p,…

The celebrated Nash Embedding Theorem asserts that every closed Riemannian manifold can be isometrically embedded into a sufficiently high-dimensional Euclidean space. In this paper, we prove an analogous result in the conformally compact…

For a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold (M,g) of dimension $N \geg 3$, we are interested in the critical equation $$\Delta_g u+(N-2/4(N-1) S_g+\epsilon h)u=u^{N+2/N-2} in M, u>0 in M,$$ where \Delta_g is the Laplace--Beltrami operator,…

Let $(M,g,\si)$ be a compact Riemannian spin manifold of dimension $\geq 2$. For any metric $\tilde g$ conformal to $g$, we denote by $\tilde\lambda$ the first positive eigenvalue of the Dirac operator on $(M,\tilde g,\si)$. We show that…

We consider a smooth, complete and non-compact Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal{M},g)$ of dimension $d \geq 3$, and we look for positive solutions to the semilinear elliptic equation $$ -\Delta_g w + V w = \alpha f(w) + \lambda w…

Let $(M,g)$ be a compact Riemannian surface without boundary, $W^{1,2}(M)$ be the usual Sobolev space, $J: W^{1,2}(M)\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be the functional defined by $$J(u)=\frac{1}{2}\int_M|\nabla u|^2dv_g+8\pi \int_M…